Posted on 12/19/2014 7:27:06 AM PST by Kaslin
Sheeeeyit. If Jon Voight or Kelsey Grammar or Charlton Heston were the subjects of those derisive emails, I guarandamntee you the consciences of the Men Seeking Men media and Hollywood trolls would not be the least bit conflicted.
The Norks can only cyber terror via China.
Emails to or from George Bush were hacked a while back. That is how we first found out about his painting.
Film journalist Mark Harris prodded “everyone who’s gloating over stolen emails” that “you must all feel very, very secure about your own correspondence.”
I don’t know about everyone else, but YES I Am. But then again I do not lead a life of hypocrisy, I actually practice what I preach, unlike Hollywood.
“Media ethics” has become an oxymoron. In old movies from the 1930s through the 1950s, reporters were typically portrayed as cigar-chomping, hard-drinking, excitable buffoons. After “All the President’s Men,” reporters began to fancy themselves as “professionals” akin to doctors and lawyers. But, to me, they are what they have always been.
Journalism has always been about shaping the narrative. It has never been about just the facts, or a neutral portrayal of the events. Anyone would believes otherwise is deluded.
The only reason that there is any idea of “Media Ethics” is the they yellow journalism of the late 19th Century came back to bite Pulitzer and his ilk.
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Today was a bad day to give up proofreading...
The media is a business. Ethics take a backseat to profits.
The information is out there, freely available on the internet. If the media doesn’t report it, the public still gets the information, but the media loses revenue. So, basically people are expecting the media to lose money taking a meaningless ethical stand, from what I can tell.
I’m waiting for the “HANDS UP, DON’T SHOW IT” T-shirts to come out.
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