Posted on 06/27/2016 7:27:33 AM PDT by Hojczyk
From Mediaite: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria spoke with Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources today about whether the media being too “elite” was a problem in how it missed the Brexit outcome so badly.
Zakaria acknowledged that journalists tend to be “better-educated,’ “comfortable with diversity,” more liberal, and “probably less sensitive to the concerns” of average Britons who supported the Brexit.
However, he said, the pro-Brexit campaign was “entirely using emotion, conjuring horror stories” about immigrants and the like, aided on by the British tabloids––which Zakaria referred to as “basically their Fox News.”
Zakaria argued that “the media does have a bias in favor of facts” when it calls out the Leave campaign for going on emotion while the Remain campaign was bringing up facts and figures about the cost and consequences of leaving the EU.
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Stuff no one cares about EXCEPT bored 'more money than brains' types. Michael Moore and Hollywood elites show it best when they put on baseball caps backwards and pretend they have a clue about real people...
More fun watching paint dry than hearing the pontificate about ‘life from the viewpoint of an out of touch blowhard’...
The EU – like the UN – is simply the INTERNATIONALIZATION of the WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION scheme the Marxist left (but I repeat myself!) has tried to impose within various individual nations – INCLUDING THIS ONE – AND HAS ALWAYS FAILED! BREXIT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THIS ONE! Despite efforts by former East German communist youth leader Merkel (she's still a commie, for those who haven't noticed!) and her ilk, OTHER DOMINOES WILL FALL!
I concur—and I’m a J-school grad.
Journalism is an easy major, if you have any degree of writing and speaking skills. Learning to write for digital platforms (or broadcast) can teach you how to express ideas succinctly and accurately. You can also hone speaking skills that are useful in describing issues, concepts and potential solutions.
But that’s about all a J-school education provides, in terms of positive influences. On the negative side, there’s too much emphasis on context, i.e., presenting information through the desired, progressive lens, so the “news” has the inevitable liberal slant.
There’s also the matter of editing skills (or the lack thereof). Most J-school grads may take only a single course on copy editing, so their ability to correct and improve their writing is marginal at best. Most broadcast journalism students are far more proficient that assembling the video portion of a “package” than writing the accompanying script. Try this experiment: next time you’re watching a local TV news broadcast, listen to the narration or pull up closed captioning, and see how the “words” relate to the images.
Finally, the vast majority of aspiring journos have no real expertise in the subjects they cover, unless they happen to be an ex-lawyer assigned to the court beat. Take a gander at the next Pentagon press briefing on CSPAN and listen to some of the questions. You’ll quickly discover that even the “veteran” defense reporters really don’t have a clue about the military—and the same holds true for journalists covering business, the economy, education and dozens of other topics. They lack both the experience and the education to do the job properly.
Ironically, journalism skills can be a career enhancer in other fields. My writing and speaking skills served me very well as an intel analyst and briefer and many employers (in a variety of fields) list good communication skills as the top thing they look for in new hires. Unfortunately, many lack the basic education (in other topics) that allow them to fully leverage those talents.
“Oh if only everyone the world were as perfect and as beautiful as I am... “
Sigh
I stopped reading when the title said journalists were “better educated”. The journalism degree is a worthless rag and mainly permission to lie and be duplicitous.
Once off the lower rungs, do you agree that journalists live in an echo chamber with little diversity of point of view?
Journalists?
Educated?
Bwahahahahah!
Absolutely, and you can look no further than the journos at the top of the pecking order. You won’t find Lester Holt, Scott Pelley or David Muir shopping at Wal-Mart. They live in the best neighborhoods, often behind some sort of fence or security barrier; their kids go to private schools and they hang out with their fellow grandees from politics, business and the entertainment industry.
You’ll find very few conservatives in the little club and the few that are fit the George Will model: establishment all the way, with no care for anyone outside the Beltway. In an unguarded moment, you’d find they use the same words as Dims to describe us: a bunch of dangerous, gun-loving Jesus freaks who just don’t understand how the system should work, and given to the occasional political tantrum.
To give you some idea of how “out-of-touch” they are, Matt Laurer’s latest contract with NBC not only pays him close to $20 million a year, it also stipulates that the network provide a helicopter to ferry him to and from his Long Island estate a specified number of days each week. Guess the limo ride is just too long; can’t have TV royalty waiting out a traffic jam with us commoners.
And even the journos on the lower rung inhabit the same echo chamber. Various surveys have shows that younger reporters are just as liberal as their older counterparts and they are less likely to be engaged in their communities than their peers in other professions. Most of them view their adopted communities as red neck towns, to be abandoned whenever a better job offer arises. Obviously, the lack of engagement makes their reporting even worse.
They are comfortable because they don’t have to live with its consequences.
To me the worst so called science journalists. They for the most part don’t have science degrees. They do have egos big enough to think that writing about it is the same as doing it. Plus they are hood winked more often than not.
I started in law enforcement in 1970. By the time I retired in 1999 it was rare to get a recruit that could ‘express ideas succinctly and accurately’ in writing as you described.
I had to fire a few in the field training phase because I could not get a police report that would stand any scrutiny by a defense attorney or court. Problems with details, logic, elements of the crime, spelling, grammar. Things we learned in 4th grade writing book reports.
And this is after a long selection process and months in the academy. Sad
In military parlance, they're known as REMFs.
Hey Fareed, how much time did you put in as a platoon leader, actually leading soldiers instead of sitting behind a microphone? I had the privilege and honor of working with men from nearly every walk of life.
Fareed, you can KMA.
What you don't factor in, Fareed, was that the voters already knew how much it was costing them to stay in the EU.
Thanks for the info, 62. My son’s being interviewed by a local PD, I’m going to remind him to refresh his communication skills.
Couldn’t agree more. The best science reporter (in my book) was the late Jules Bergman of ABC—and he’s been dead for nearly 30 years. One of the best on the space exploration (in an era when everyone had a reporter on that beat), and he excelled in covering medicine, technology and defense matters as well. From what I remember, his reporting never had an agenda and he did his homework on every story. Compare that to today’s air-blown bunch. They merely regurgitate the “scientific consensus” which, more often than not, is the latest press release from some environmental advocacy group.
You can always find that “technique” in the work of Ann Thompson, who works as the chief environmental reporter for NBC. She’s the biggest media cheer leader for the global warming crowd and I’ve rarely seen her acknowledge that the “science” behind that theory is pure bunk. Since Brian Williams fall from grace I don’t see her on Nightly News as often, but she’s still working for NBC and that tells you all you need to know.
Agreed
Yeah. Bergman was something special.
Journalists here=Zakaria and his select few.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
The RATagandist filth are "effin' retards" ( - Rahm Emanuel)
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