Posted on 11/30/2017 5:11:17 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
In the late 1960s, when Ted Koppel covered the Vietnam War as ABC News’ war correspondent, he would ship his film by air back to the network’s New York studios, a journey that took two to three days. By 2003, when he began covering the Iraq War, Koppel could broadcast from the desert, bringing news to his viewers the same day it happened. Now, Koppel said Wednesday in a lecture at Trinity University, half the American public gets its news immediately on Facebook. “What social media does is give all of us the opportunity to say anything at any time at any length about anybody, without regard to fact-checking or its accuracy,” he said. “That’s something totally new.”
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Perhaps the opening up of this can of worms infesting the Left, their ‘female’ problems, will open some eyes, and they’ll return to something close to real journalism.
I doubt it though.
Koppel is a low life POS.
To quote the now unavailable Walmart t-shirt: Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required.
Huh ... Big Media, most definitely to include Ted Koppel, never bother to do that.
No the majority can not return. What it’s going to take is young fire breathers to start taking those jobs or going to work for media types who actually honor truth, the country, and wants to make sure that lawbreakers don’t get away with it
History is controversial. We just have to live with that. And that means that there is a band of uncertainty about just about everything. Including a lot of stuff which you insist that I “agree [is] factual"“I believe it is the responsibility of journalists at this time in our history to do what has been their responsibility throughout every other time in history,” Koppel said. “And that is to report the facts. And get away from all the analysis.”
Before the advent of the wire services (particularly the AP), newspapers were mostly about the opinions of their printers. Because newspapers were mostly not dailies but weeklies - and some had no deadline at all - people learned news by the grapevine about as fast as they learned it from newspapers. With the wire services, all newspapers have a lot of input to choose from, but not independent of each other. All newspapers do, therefore, “agree. . . on . . . what is factual.”“Report what’s important, report it accurately, get it fact-checked, make sure that what you’re saying is right,” Koppel said. “And then let the chips fall.”
If only it were that simple. What is important, and what is not important? You said you were going to keep the editorializing out of the news - and there you go, reporting news on the basis of commercial criteria (will it attract the attention of viewers/readers?) which do not guarantee that what you report actually is important - and there you go leaving what I consider important on the cutting room floor!
Ping.
What would this liberal hack know about journalism?
I've seen reports of coals fire *finally* burning out. Scranton, PA area, iirc.
That one was started by a garbage burning?
fabricated memos not forged. Forged implies the existence of an original document. Fabricated means made up.
Rather and CBS could not produce an original typewritten letter. If they had it could have been checked by the typewriters that the FBI keeps (I remember from my FBI tour that the FBI has every make and model of typewriter made).
There are several underground coal fires in the US and overseas - and a few reported even as early as Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the far west near the Missouri banks! - but the most well-known is Centralia PA. Yes, that fires was started by trash burning in an open old coal mine pit, with seams of the coal left exposed by the pit walls.
It is still burning, the town was paid off many tens of millions of dollars ago.
Re: “What social media does is give all of us the opportunity to say anything at any time at any length about anybody, without regard to fact-checking or its accuracy,” he said. “That’s something totally new.”
So, it sounded like he’s decrying the fact the Internet makes it possible for the truth of an event to get out before the media or the government has a chance to censor it or spin it.
“Hey, kids! It’s Howdy Doody time!”
The problem isn’t news that’s “fake” — it’s news that’s slanted, usually leftward. I find their writing overemotional, to the point of irritating.
Ted, there’s a big difference between leftist propagandists and journalists. You do understand that, right?
Koppel should content himself with talking about the Communist International News while his daughter Andrea stunk up the joint with her pompous commie declarations of how the U.S. sucked! (CNN International)
“I don’t remember the details of why, but I remember Ted Koppel as a despicable piece of s***.”
you remember correctly. as i recall koppel produced a whole series of defeatism reports when he was embedded as a “reporter” in the first iraq war. my impression was that the SOB was trying to emulate walter cronkite during the vietnam war.
Yes. Set the landfill alight. On top of coal veins.
Well that certainly clears things up. You should be an MSM journalist.
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