Perhaps it would be a novel idea to report a story rather than to take a story and put a slant on it!
Whatever happened to reporting? I suspect the left-wing professors at the journalism schools are the primary sources of the liberalism in reporting!
Perhaps it would be a novel idea to report a story rather than to take a story and put a slant on it! How quaint. Apparantly you haven't gotten the memo.
Nothing will appear, as news, on any MSM outlet, if it cannot be spun to advance the agenda. If it doesn't advance the agenda, it isn't news. Simple as that. Now you know.
(steely)
Actually, I don't think so---I mean, they certainly don't help---but this is the subject of a book I've been working on, and we're doing a rather large study of the 1960s. It appears that reporters have ALWAYS been libs (since the early 1900s), but that journalistic ethics, the way "news" was written (fact-heavy, little on "feelings"), and, above all, a commitment to balance and fairness---even when you didn't agree with it---dominated until JFK. Then something happened. We're working on proving what, and I won't give away our preliminary findings, but our data set is pretty darn big.
Among other things, though, the style of reporting changed from the "inverted pyramid" of who, what, when, where, why to an "engaging" personal style that always began with an anecdote or story (see any stupid column on any of last night's basketball games, and see how long it takes you to find out what the score was!!)
All the J-schools did was confirm and reinforce what had already happened.
Oh, and all this happened BEFORE Vietnam and Watergate, contrary to popular opinion.
There are some teasers about this, here:
"I suspect the left-wing professors at the journalism schools "
Why should there even be journalism schools? If I, as an engineer, can write a clear Who What Why When and Where story, AND know something about the subject, then shouldn't I be prefer as a journalist? Same with the rest of you with real life skills.
In fact, this goes for the teaching "profession" as well.