No, no... and NO!
Journalism is supposed to report the news. Leave your societal "positive force" to your editorial pages.
Jah-whore-nalism today is just pushing the 'Rat agenda, 24x7.
Posted on 08/06/2019 2:47:26 PM PDT by Ennis85
WHEN a mass shooting happens, even when it happens twice in a 24-hour period – even when the death toll soars into the dozens – we reflexively spring into action. We describe the horror of what happened, we profile the shooter, we tell about the victims’ lives, we get reaction from public officials.
It’s difficult, gut-wrenching work for those journalists who are on the scene.
And then there’s the next one. And the next one.
If journalism is supposed to be a positive force in society – and we know it can be – this is doing no good. Nothing changes. If anything, the pace of these tragedies is on the rise, as Saturday’s El Paso, Texas, massacre, quickly followed by the one on Sunday near Dayton, Ohio, seemed to prove.
Native Ohioan Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, told me she has been talking with many thoughtful journalists over the past two days.
“The only consensus: We have to change how we report all of these,” said Schultz, who is married to Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown.
But what, exactly, can that amount to? I asked a few media observers whose views I particularly respect to share their thoughts. “Sometimes, journalists don’t just report the news: They can help a community or a country set an agenda,” said Bill Grueskin, a former ‘Wall Street Journal’ editor who is a professor at the Columbia University graduate school of journalism. That means “shining a light on solutions as well as problems, and insisting on accountability all the way”.
Sounds right, but what does that mean in this situation? For Grueskin, it means a co-ordinated approach among large and small news organisations;
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Why do we never hear anything about this:
Sixty-two (62) people have been killed in mass shootings in 2019.
Source:https://time.com/5643553/2019-mass-shootings-list/
Two hundred ninety-three (293) people have been killed in Chicago in 2019.
Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-homicides-data-tracker-htmlstory.html
Correct. What coverage are they talking about?
Blacks commit far more murders as a percentage than white people.
Which gets IGNORED by the MSM.
“...If anything, the pace of these tragedies is on the rise...”
It stays consistent in Chicago...EVERY WEEKEND....
No, no... and NO!
Journalism is supposed to report the news. Leave your societal "positive force" to your editorial pages.
Jah-whore-nalism today is just pushing the 'Rat agenda, 24x7.
When there is a mass shooting, the news covers the event all right. Except most of the coverage is used to blame Republicans and gun owners for it. The more the media attacks the right, the more you know the shooter was either nonpolitical or left leaning.
In practice, mass shootings become a opportunity for the left to attack the right at the expense of the victims.
THOUSANDS of bombings in the 1970s by Leftists and the media STILL covers for Bill Ayers and those politicians who sucked at his teat.
Honest journalism should report object facts without editorializing. Who, what, where, when, and why (and how when applicable).
Today, 'journalism' is about hype, hysteria, and opinions.
That was a long, long time ago, if ever. I'm 69 and I really don't remember a time when the MSM was fair.
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