Posted on 09/19/2005 10:20:32 AM PDT by Fred911
DISASTER has a way of bringing out the best and the worst instincts in the news media. It is a grand thing that during the most terrible days of Hurricane Katrina, many reporters found their gag reflex and stopped swallowing pat excuses from public officials. But the media's willingness to report thinly attributed rumors may also have contributed to a kind of cultural wreckage that will not clean up easily.
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Got your bubble-headed-bleach-blonde, comes on at 5...
She can tellya bout a plane crash, with a gleam in her eye..
Its interesting when people die...
Gimme dirty laundry....
Just reporting facts ? Obviously, you don't know what goes on in today's Journalism schools.
I've always wondered the Paul Harvey behind that tune....;'}
News reports that wrongly trashed President Bush = good.
News reports about savage inner-city violence and pathology = bad.
A return to the tradition of "Killing the Messenger" would resolve this problem.
The front page of the St Petersberg Times and the NY Times has a common filter:
Does it make Bush look bad?
It it doesn't, can it be spun to make Bush look bad?
If it can't, can we print a picture that makes Bush look unattractive, weak or stupid?
It's so easy to see. Just read their headlines, and the filter is obvious.
I'm surprised he didn't mention the reporter who claimed threre was cannibalism.
From
Trouble Every Day
Frank Zappa
Well you can cool it,
You can heat it...
'Cause, baby, I don't need it...
Take your TV tube and eat it
'N all that phony stuff on sports
'N all the unconfirmed reports
You know I watched that rotten box
Until my head began to hurt
From checkin' out the way
The newsmen say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so
And further they assert
That any show they'll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They'll be the first to tell
Because the boys they got downtown
Are workin' hard and doin' swell,
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the street,
They say that no one blabs it faster
Their coverage can't be beat
And if another woman driver
Gets machine-gunned from her seat
They'll send some joker with a brownie
And you'll see it all complete
At the beginning of time.
What ever happened to just reporting on the facts???
It always was an urban legend.
The Internet is the best thing that's ever happened to journalism. It allows instant fact checking and dissemination of opposing interpretations. That will not eliminate bias, irrationality, partisanship, and ideological blinders - that's impossible - but it will allow those so disposed to see reality more clearly.
At the beginning of time.
What ever happened to just reporting on the facts???
It always was an urban legend.
The Internet is the best thing that's ever happened to journalism. It allows instant fact checking and dissemination of opposing interpretations. That will not eliminate bias, irrationality, partisanship, and ideological blinders - that's impossible - but it will allow those so disposed to see reality more clearly.
"Somewhere along the way" being about 1 week after the first televised news broadcast.
"What ever happened to just reporting on the facts???"
"It always was an urban legend."
An urban legend and a myth but one the journalism schools and a generation of journalists claimed to adhere to.
There is no 'unbiased' press, never was. The phenomenon has been great marketing by the institutional press in an era when nobody could pull the curtain away to uncover their real work. the patently false claims by the Walter Cronkite's and Sam Donaldson's that their reporting was the 'objective press' now ceases to work, thanks to the internet.
Actually, they are not much different from the yellow press of the past. The New York Times has an agenda as clear as the partisan papers of the 19th century, they just couch it differently.
" The Internet is the best thing that's ever happened to journalism."
Agreed ... but it wasnt the best thing to happen to *journalists*, like Dan Rather.
If I'm not mistaken...he was on MTP Sunday...and not a question was raised about his article....he was treated like he had something important to contribute...sheesh..
"Some say" Bush is a Racist.
It's not new is it? Didn't the New York Times cause the Spanish American War?
The Magic Eightball is the MSM's source on this, I take it ?
Will we ever know what really happened? Didnt the police chief go on the Oprah show and say he had witnessed rapes and killing? Was he lying, or where did he get this info? Makes me wonder.
Watch out! Maxine Waters wants millions of flyers informing evacuees in shelters of their "entitlement" to $26,000 from FEMA . (per housing committee meeting this morning on c-span) I don't know what the rules are exactly, but FEMA cut me a check for $500 for hurricane dameage last summer. Expect others to demand theirs too, hurricane or no.
I have a feeling that if lightning struck my house and burned it to the ground, the government's response would be, "Hope you had insurance."
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