[Jamestown1630]

Re: number 8 - The media prove to us every day that they believe we are all stupid.

That’s why I don’t pay attention to much of what they spout.

[AndyJackson]

Re Number 7 “Opinion and analysis have a worthy place in journalism.”

Yeah, I suppose, but in a sort of Gresham’s law, the bad opinions and fake facts have driven out the good opinion and analysis. Just look at what has happened to National Review. Used to be the best written analysis and opinions in the universe. Now it is just worthless drivel.

[Paal Gulli]

Lara Logan doesn’t know the difference between an aphorism and a commandment. She doesn’t know an inverted pyramid news story from the Great Pyramid of Cheops.

She’s a former swimsuit model who got her degree in journalism from The University of Nowhere.

She got work in television because of her face, pure and simple.

[magooey]

It is not the role of a journalist to decide what people should think.

Mika Brzezinski disagrees.

"Our job is to control exactly what people think."

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’d be satisfied if they’d stick with what we learned in High School while putting together the Newspaper and/or the Yearbook:

Who
What
When
Where
Why and
How

[asinclair]

And yet, in the corporate world the "journalists" aren't measured according to these rules. They are measured on what sells papers, ads, or ratings. And the members of the public don't measure the talking heads according to these rules.

Another form of "you get what you pay for."

[imardmd1]

The writer is speaking of a scientist who seeks and publishes truth (by definition); not a journalist whose job is to sell papers.

[Tzimisce]

Oh yeah?

Well you’re a racist.

[Third Person]

proofreading is left for the editor, not the journalist, as journalists can’t write or spell properly