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Who's going to gather the news? A 'pundint' blasts the blogosphere
Posted by Paul Mulshine December 27, 2008 12:45PM
I've received so many comments from people who failed to read the Moron Perspective Warning that I am now starting this entry with it. Please read it and follow the simple instructions.
Moron Perspective Warning:
If you want to comment on this piece, please do the following:
1. Read it in its entirety.
2. Respond to the question of just who will do reporting in the Internet era. I don't want to hear your theories about media bias. After 35 years in the business, I know as much on that subject as anyone and your theories will not amuse me. So stick to the issue of who will do the reporting in the future. Otherwise you risk having your comments either deleted or employed by me as an example of the idiocy of the blogosphere through the posting of a Moron Perspective Alert on them.
Here is the original entry:
I've got a column in Saturday's Wall Street Journal in which I lament the demise of newspapers and I point out the reasons bloggers make such poor replacements for professional journalists.
Here's an excerpt:
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Read the rest here (Be sure to click on View comments)
Go read yourself.
"Thank you sir may I have another?"
Newsflash!!!
Contrary to what a lot of journalists/communications majors like to think, they’re not the best writers in the world. They just do it for a living, but other than that, don’t have real insight into the process of discovering the truth of any matter, but just propagating what the originator knows, to a larger, general audience — which is always limited by their own understanding of how one goes about discovering the truth of anything.
The process of discovery is the most important revelation, allowing subsequent readers to verify the truth themselves — and not just accept it as the truth. Frequently, other experts are asked to comment on a statement that may in fact have no truth or substance, and certainly don’t have the methodology in arriving at those conclusions — but only the “conclusions,” as though they were a well-known fact.
In a previous time, those who had great expertise in one field, often lacked an ability to communicate it to any other, and that was the justification for the middleman, or media intermediary. However, because of nearly universal education, most people have the rudiments of language skills sufficient to communicate it to an audience beyond their immediate colleagues and peers — and those who are most knowledgeable in their field of their expertise now, are often the best at communicating those ideas to a wider audience themselves — rather than getting lost in the middleman’s muddled understanding, in which frequently, they enter and leave with their misunderstandings, confirmed.
2. Respond to the question of just who will do reporting in the Internet era.
In other words, who do you believe, me or your and others' lying eyes?
I don't want to hear your theories about media bias.
Never mind that 80+% of "journalists" are liberal and vote for the(d) ticket every time.
After 35 years in the business, I know LIE as much on that subject as anyone and your theories will not amuse me.
So .... Otherwise you risk having your comments either deleted or employed by me as an example of the idiocy of the blogosphere through the posting of a Moron Perspective Alert on them.
Censor everyone with a different perspective. I bet this Moron would never get on Rush or Hannity and debate this issue.