Posted on 03/18/2011 12:40:53 PM PDT by GSWarrior
The triple threat in Japan - earthquake, tsunami, nuclear reactors in peril - is clearly demonstrating how reporters and anchors are bungling the basics and how the producers and executives in charge of them have fallen woefully short of leadership. How is it possible that on Monday evening (Tuesday in Japan), with the earthquake, tsunami and worries about radiation poisoning engulfing Japan, a CNN reporter can ask this question: "How scary has this been for you?"
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No leadership? Same as our country!
The only thing Yoko Ono would be good for in this instance is the soundtrack to the tsunami video.
Journalism has been dead in America for quite some time. All we have now is agitprop.
j-school students do not take math and science in colleges.
U mean ac360 inputs is unprofessional? No way!!
Read a news story and try to find a radiation level reported. Our MSP is staffed by illiterate idiots.
I loved the CNN anchor who asked a Japanese guy via Skype:
“What’s it been like seeing what’s happening in your country?
Here’s how I would have answered:
“I have to say, it’s been absolutely wonderful. I was overjoyed to see that enormous gush of muddy water power thru neighborhoods and swallow up cars and my native countrymen. My favorite part has been watching millions of displaced people starve in freezing conditions, while at the same time wondering about the fate of their loved ones and being completely on edge because of the constant tremors and the threat of radiation poisoning. I only wish that the actual quake itself had done more damage, rather than just the tsunami. 10,000 dead is just such a disappointing number. Oh well, maybe next time.
“HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL YOU STUPID F**KING COW!!!?????”
I'd like to think that more than a few actually told the bonehead reporters something like that. Of course they wouldn't show it on air, but maybe they'd think twice about asking it next time. But I doubt that the Japanese would be so rude.
Correct. They major in “Melodrama”.
“j-school students do not take math and science in colleges.”
One wonders what it is they do study. Probably not languages. Is it a humanity? Do they get philosophy, history, politics, art? What about the social “science”s? They certainly don’t get economics training, but what about sociology, anthropology, etc.? My guess is it amounts to reading newspapers, magazines, and the occasional tip on grammar.
It's worse than that. Here's a little experiment for you. Find a News story on a subject about which you have pretty good knowledge of the fundamentals. Doesn't matter what the story is. Now read the story and count the factual errors and hastily drawn conclusions. Now extrapolate from that to other types of stories about subjects you are unfamiliar with. You'll be very skeptical about anything that you read.
The US media’s only known emergency preparations, consists of an NPR overnight bag carefully stocked with one set of shoe polish, for each pair of golf shoes Obama owns...
How can they possibly be expected to fit anything else in there?
It’s full.
Well put. They are irresponsible idiots, aren’t they?
Well duh.
They went to J school where all their taught is leftist indoctrination and hysteria.
(Yes. I am kidding. But please act real, real offended so as not to spoil the fun.)
I just sent that one around claiming it was a “screen grab”.....half the replies I get back will probably have swallowed it.
Journalists have been on their knees servicing the progressives, Hollywood, and the DC incumbency for so long they don’t know how to cover real news anymore. They just fall back to what they know because it’s all they know.
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