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To: Mr_Moonlight
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* ???”
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.
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 . . .


55 posted on 05/09/2010 7:29:46 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ( DRAFT PALIN)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
i'm sensitive about the possibility of unwelcome pings, tho . . .

No no no ... it wasn't 'unwelcome' as it were, I was just curious, that's all ... Thanks for the ping, as I *do* like to discuss these matters such as the mendacity of today's 'Journalism' ...

(note how the above reads like an old style UPI or AP tele-type machine?) ... hehehehehee :)

56 posted on 05/09/2010 12:40:20 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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