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Peter Jennings Admits He Doesn't Require Reporters To Be "Objective."
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Posted on 10/20/2004 6:28:43 AM PDT by MindBender26
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If viewers can't expect you to at least try to be "objective," why else watch you?
If reporters can't learn to be "objective" in their 4 years of Journalism school, why go to such a school in the first place?
The notion of "fair" is beyond belief. Hitler undoubtably thought he was "fair" to the Jews and Gypsies.
To: MindBender26
What a surprise. Jennings, Rather, Brokaw inserting their extremist Left Wing news into all their news stories.
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:31:00 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: MindBender26
Why should he hold others to a standard he doesn't meet.
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:31:41 AM PDT
by
DOGEY
To: MindBender26
I'm shocked, just shocked.
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:32:04 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: MindBender26
Amazing... this is exactly what George Soros wants.. he must be gloating over this right now...
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:33:31 AM PDT
by
tomnbeverly
(Kerry will bring the Big Dig to Washington in the form of Healthcare becasue thats what liberals do)
To: MindBender26
These "journalists" , like many of our elected "leaders" are elitest snobs. They instinctively feed us "what we need."
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:36:58 AM PDT
by
billhilly
(If you're lurking here from DU (Democrats unglued), I trust this post will make you sick)
To: MindBender26
When will these f*cking idiot leftists understand that, by definition, NEWS must be objective. It is supposed to be a reporting of events that are happening.
When they stop doing this it is no longer news, it is PROPOGANDA and COMMENTARY!
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:37:08 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
(Benedict Arnold was for American independence before he was against it.)
To: tomnbeverly
Amazing... this is exactly what George Soros wants.. he must be gloating over this right now... He's probably coordinating it!
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:40:00 AM PDT
by
JaguarXKE
To: 1Old Pro
I think we can place this comment from Jennings under:
News flash!
DUH....
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:41:10 AM PDT
by
thingumbob
(Kerry/Edwards are sKerry/Leftwards)
To: MindBender26
Saying Objective and Fair is playing word games. No one expected Edward R Murrow to be Objective or even Fair when he was describing the Blitz from a London rooftop. You did expect him to be accurate. He did, and so did the BBC, accurately describe Britain's losses and report their statistics of German losses. What we get today from the media is propaganda masquerading as objective reporting. This is as much true of the NY Post as it is of the NY Times and Newsday. We find ourselves in a time warp to two centuries ago where the newspapers clearly stood with Federalists or Republicans
The thing I love about FR is that stories and articles are posted or linked in their original form and commentary follows. That allows a real exercise of critical thinking. Media folk like Jennings cloak themselves in meaningless words like Objective and fair when they are neither. And BTW FR provides an antithesis to his belief that people tailor their news to suit their opinions. We post and read all news and critique it using our knowledge, evidence and viewpoint. I dare say most readers and posters on FR are more conversant with the leftist point of view than most readers of Salon or DU, or ABC.
To: billhilly
These "journalists" , like many of our elected "leaders" are elitest snobs. They instinctively feed us "what we need." With the primary aim of benefitting themselves.
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:45:26 AM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(JF'nK - Billionaire playboy, courtsey of a deceased Republican.)
To: MindBender26
The MSM say's that the mistake that Dan Rather and CBS made on The National guard story was that they were sloppy because of over aggressiveness and overzealousness.
The point isn't that they were sloppy, it is that they would never have aggressively gone after a story like this against a Democrat.
To: MindBender26
"If you tailor your news viewing, as some people are now doing, so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong," Jennings saidTRANSLATION;Limbaugh and the internet junkies are making us look like chumps. That 'friggin FOXNews is '$hittin in our sandbox! Lets get back the White house and close down the lot of them!
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:46:01 AM PDT
by
johnny7
(“Lick my ball-sweat Lady Astor!!” -Winston Churchill)
To: MindBender26
"I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective," Jennings said.
Outrageous! My old J-school professor must be rolling in his grave. Yes, back then they still taught objectivity and if Dr. Morgan caught a whiff of bias or thought you'd sexed-up a story at the expense of the truth you got an F...no questions asked. He'd almost always lop the last sentence/ graph off a story because that's where the reporter's opinion usually creeps in.
Kerry's got his "nuisance" and now Jennings has got his "notion"...what a couple of elitist twits.
To: thingumbob
From the Code of Ethics (Society of Prof. Journalists)
"Distinguish between advocacy and news reporting. Analysis and commentary should be labeled and not misrepresent fact or context. "
For more- see this site:http://www.spj.org/ethics_code.asp
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:47:35 AM PDT
by
SE Mom
To: WestTexasWend
Surprise, surprise....It's not him and his other leftists journalists. It's the "way we ingest news" making it all of our faults. Another reason I won't watch network news.
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:49:11 AM PDT
by
PersonEatingTastyAnimals
((For those folks who don't think you should be able to enjoy a good steak!)
To: MindBender26
I can accept that everyone presenting news has a personal bias. Fine. State it up front and we can all listen to your news story with that information.
"I'm Joe Blow, ABC News. This report is presented through my personal liberal prism. I personally want to see John Kerry elected.
On the campaign trail today...."
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:49:12 AM PDT
by
vrwinger
(Need some wood?)
To: MindBender26
Reporters don't have to be fair or objective...
Which means they can be unfair and biased
Meanwhile Jennings' is on a swing through battleground states'
Hey Mr Reporter....you wouldn't be campaigning for Kerry would you?
ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBCPUBLICTVRADIO are all for Kerry....then all this advertising should be billed as such a price put on it...taxes paid on it....and Pres Bush demands equal time...
Propaganda isn't news and Jennings like Cronkite Rather Brokaw and all the rest are not reporters they are propagandists...nothing more...
and Marxists propagandists to boot...though their brown shirted ground troop colleagues act more like National Socialists...
It's amazing the Russia and Germany ever fought...they had so much in common
The Third Way resolves all those nasty issues...and coalesces both into one nice fat
Global dogma...
McCarthy was right...we are awash in them....no wonder they hated him so...
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:51:11 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(America needs a 'Big Dog' on her porch not a easily frightened, whining, Surrender Poodle...)
To: MindBender26
ABC (Always Believe Communists) needs to become intellectually honest and file as a 527 organization. Jennings "swinging through" battleground states? Please change to "Jennings campaigning for Senator Kerry through the battleground states".
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posted on
10/20/2004 6:53:46 AM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: MindBender26
Yeah yeah...and he's dumping mercury in the drinking water, dumping herbicides all the forests and plans to nuke Missouri, too.
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posted on
10/20/2004 7:00:13 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions=Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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