Posted on 07/01/2009 7:56:34 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Apparently, YouTube doesn't think that a conservative journalist has anything to say to help all you budding citizen journalists out there. A glance at the denizens of the Old Media offered up as journalism experts on the Internet video giant will show a long list of well known lefties with not a single center or center right professional in the mix.
On April 30, YouTube set up a channel dedicated to a sort of how-to instruction manual or an online media 101 class that folks interested in becoming citizen journalists can watch to help them learn some of the tricks of the Media trade. Ostensibly, this will help the average, every day blogger present his work in a more professional way. This is a great idea, by the way. Many blogs could use some tips on better writing and presentation, interview skills, and video presentation if not an occasional editor -- and I should know on that last one!
But it seems that no one that represents the center-right in the world of journalism seems to qualify as an expert as far as Google's YouTube is concerned. Going to the main page will reveal a whole bunch of lefty jurnos offering you their help. Not only do we get the advice from the heavily left-slanted Chris Cillizza, NPR or Katie Couric, but YouTube even offers "advice" from AlJazeera's Riz Kahn, for Pete's sake!
Imagine, AlJazeera on journalistic professionalism!
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Who wants to learn tricks from old dogs? I can just imagine:
1) When you personally oppose an idea or piece of legislation, mention 'critics' or 'opponents.' If you can dig out some whack job commie professor you can proclaim that 'experts' and 'scientists' opposite the idea. In either case make sure you include the criticism and never explain the concept in full. Assume your audience is composed of complete idiots.
2) Anyone to the right of Karl Marx is a 'conservative' or a 'hard-liner.' Anyone to the left of Karl Marx is 'mainstream,' 'moderate' or 'centrist.'
3) Bumbling incompetent Dem cabinet members and VPs are cuddly mascots who occasionally piddle on the carpet, bless them. Clear-thinking and decisive GOP cabinet members and VPs especially those with for-profit business backgrounds are Nazis, Imperial Stormtroopers or warmongers.
4) Correctly identifying communists and socialists is McCarthyism. Incorrectly identifying conservatives as Klansmen is speaking truth to power.
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