Posted on 07/28/2013 6:56:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Just Journolists, Editors, management and owners.
It's because there is no such thing as "news" anymore when it comes to Obama's Press Corpse from San Francisco to Martha's Vineyard.
It's all propaganda and/or fluff designed to distract us from what really matters.
These "anchors" aren't "journalists". They are TelePrompTer readers. Newspaper reporters aren't "journalists". They just cut and paste whatever The Associated Press sends them.
The only place there is real journalism going on is on talk radio and blogs and FreeRepublic.com.
I wouldn’t have fired them, since they received NTSB confirmation, but I would forever question their judgment.
Sorry, but I lost all respect and sympathy for journalists and therefore no longer give a smelly Obama about them.
I (and the vast majority of those reading these types of blogs) can pick the wheat from the bull-Obama.
Journalism will have to prove itself worthy of respect.
And it has a very steep upslope to conquer.
Rule number one in business, don’t make your boss look bad.
Heh, heh.
1) The News biz isn't a biz. They do not care about profits, they care about pushing propaganda. Therefore, they have little money and cannot afford adequate staff.
2) J-schools attract sub-standard students. To succeed, you have to think like a Liberal. Therefore, logic and insight are not commonly found in J-school graduates.
3) The news biz mostly pushes talking points and pre-digested stories created by The Powers That Be. Their job is easy, and so they don't put a lot of thought into it. They just show up and say what they are paid to say.
Come on. Anyone with an IQ above room temperature could have taken a look at that graphic and said it should never have seen broadcast. One name slipping by is an 'honest mistake'. Not four.
AP = Always Propaganda!
I didn't see nay trademark claims so consider it stolen.
When editorials appear on the front page and are not labeled as opinion or analysis, then we know then we know that journalism and journalists are not what they used to be. This has nothing to do with honest mistakes or overworked folks in the newsroom. It means that journalism has abandoned its principles in pursuit of political and ideological objectives.
Once you abandon a dedication to truth and no longer maintain a clear separation between new pages and editorial pages, then why not turn to comedy. News today is entertainment and political advocacy, both dumbed down to the level of an uneducated audience.
In this case, from my limited viewpoint, I see an overworked newsroom in which people made an honest mistake, confirmed by the NTSB and quickly corrected. Then the managers who put those hamsters on the nonstop treadmill — and kept it running — discarded them when they stumbled.
If it were my call I wouldn’t have released the “names.”
An officer and an NCO in my workcenter had an inappropriate friendship. The Group Commander’s Secretary published a “Social Roster” with names and spouses. The officer wrote “Sum Yung Ho” next to the NCO’s name. The Secretary “knew” he had been married to a Korean and added it.
The NCO acted offended and I told him to shut up because he was sitting there when the Lieutenant wrote it and HE turned it in to the Secretary.
The problem was caused by the non-familiar APPEARANCE of names from a foreign culture which tends to get them lumped into the “all those oriental names look the same” basket.
The staff MAY not have even READ the names since they probably are of the generation which was taught “Sight Reading”.
“Ah, so, a gook name...whatever.” was the thought process.
Second option is that they DID read the names and thought, “What a great opportunity to get away with a ‘fast one’, similar to that execrable movie title of a few years ago, “Meet the Fockers”.
A juvenile prank that backfired.
They didn’t get fired because of shoddy journalism. That happens every second of every day. They were fired because they were not “sensitive” enough.
Backfired? It gained the attention of an entire nation. It might be one of the greatest pranks ever with the craven, PC media providing unwitting assistance.
And it was hilarious.
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