Ping
Like President Bush, she is awesome.
Exactly correct.
From the sublime..to the ridiculous.
She sounds sad about the state of journalism. I think this is a eulogy.
The destructive disease is systemic and terminal. Just last night I experienced a classic example, too blatant to dismiss or ignore.
Channel 13, a local Sacramento (Calif) TV station reporting the news at 10: raging fires in the Santa Barbara area. Plenty of drama to go around.
What happens? The children who are "trained" in journalism (and the program director) made the critical first 5 minutes of the newscast about "themselves!"
Goes without saying, I was disgusted and went in search of another news channel which could provide less narcissistic content, and was embued with a bit more panache and professionalism. A trivial example? Perhaps. But typical of the terminal malaise described in this article.
We don't need attention whores, commentary, propaganda or sermons.
We need news!
Most of us who got a competent education can tell the difference.
If the press member knew how to think critically, report the new and not be so worried about selling the product, they wouldn’t be in the mess they are in now. May the journalism degrees should require a little philosophy, more straight literature, not that modern stuff, traditional, and history. This from an English major.
BUMP!
See my new tag line? ;)