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To: abb

The so-called “journalism” schools need to stop pumping out communist propagandists and start graduating only honest journalists. I know that would be a tough thing for them to do but if the “media” wants to survive, it is what they have to do.


12 posted on 06/13/2010 2:06:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Bush made me do it!" - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The so-called “journalism” schools need to stop pumping out communist propagandists and start graduating only honest journalists. I know that would be a tough thing for them to do but if the “media” wants to survive, it is what they have to do.
You are assuming that the business Newswire Journalism is in is the one they say they are in. Their business model depends on interesting the public and flattering its audience that its product defines the public interest. But interesting the public and being in the public interest are two entirely different things.

Claiming to be objective is a central element in their claim to represent the public interest. But there's a funny thing about that - claiming to be objective is the opposite of actually trying to be objective.

The bottom line is that wire service journalism is inevitably tendentious.

24 posted on 06/13/2010 7:10:34 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ( DRAFT PALIN)
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