"The CBS - American News Anchor, ""Gunga Dan" Rather, is believed to have invented the drive-by Reporting."
No, it was used on McCarthy and the anti-communists of the 50s, including RMN, and if you read "Hollywood Party" you'll see the communists in America using it even earlier than that.
I think there should be a requirement that corrections of inaccuracies be given the same exposure as the erroneous story. So if a debunked story appeared as a headline on the first page of a paper, the correction should appear as a headline on the first page, with a full explanation of how the error came to be published.
Expand that policy to television, all corrections must be given as much airtime as the erroneous story.
If this eats into the media's profits, perhaps they'll think twice about running inaccurate or deliberately false stories.
Amen to That! This is why I get the DOD reports direct and don't even read the newspaper anymore...
If it's not FOX news, I don't watch it! Furthermore, I go out of my way to avoid whatever the MSNM is printing because of what you've just mentioned!
My website, News Sarasota.com, is where I take the DOD and other News Reports, not "news stories - written 2 or 3 or 4 different ways", and put them up for the World to see...
I applaud you for your efforts and know more people are now becoming aware of the 'dupe and scoop' game the MSNM is playing on Americans and the World...
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"Drive by Media" may need to be entered into Wikipedia. A Google search comes up Non-Sequitur.
Listening to many journalists--including Helen Thomas and many so-called "intellectuals"--in discussions, I am struck by how facile their arguments are, how poorly thought out their positions are, and how little intellectual and philosophical grounding they have. Of course, Thomas was "educated" before the romantic notion of the journalist crusader became extant in universites, but I believe that ignorance to be partly a result of journalism tracks in higher education being the second easiest of the majors. Without some culling in the course work, many physically attractive, but empty-headed, people ascend to the top of the "profession."
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a33b0424856.htm#44
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The astonishingly low quality of reportage by the Drive-By Media continues to amaze, and depress me.
Journalism, particularly the television variety, has become a bizzare amalgam of Max Headroom and Mad Max...
they are never at a loss for words, but their words hardly ever mean anything useful or informative.
It's all memes, talking points and chatter used to fit a template.
