I’m just curious, not that I mind, but how exactly did I end up on your ping-list? Is it the New York link on FR between us or is it something else, something I posted in the past? Just curious.
BTW .. good post regarding Journalism and its historical place in our culture and how its been perverted into a monolith of disinformation and propaganda. I have a BA in Journalism (Broadcasting) mainly just because I wanted to ‘play with the toys’ as it were .. I’m a techie, not a cultural activist ... /laughs ... maybe that’s how I got on your ping-list :)
As an anecdote, in Journalism school one instructor who worked for a local TV station did a lecture about how to cover a ‘great story’ ...
Instructor: “Fires. Fires are good, fires are great, fires make terrific entertainment” ... “Point the camera in the direction of the oncoming fire-truck with its red lights flashing and siren screeching and then cut to the leaping flames”
I remember thinking to myself during this lecture session: “What the F ??? This is totally insane!!! .. some poor shlub is watching as their life’s possessions get reduced to burnt out rubble and this guy is going on about how it’s *great entertainment* ???”
— MM
Im just curious, not that I mind, but how exactly did I end up on your ping-list? Is it the New York link on FR between us or is it something else, something I posted in the past? Just curious.
You tell me you have a BA in journalism, and you make intelligent contributions to the discussion of the tendencies/tendentiousness of journalism such as the above - and then you wonder why I want to discuss this issue with you! You are a perfect fit for my interests which led me to create a ping list in the first place.. . . and even at that, you aren't getting as many pings as some folks, who I think (some of whom have made extremely clear) that they want them.i'm sensitive about the possibility of unwelcome pings, tho . . .