Journalism 101 Just...
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...ain't what it used to be.
From Accuracy In Media, here's a great column about the lack of actual journalism in today's world. In this piece, there is a very telling (and very true) part about how students are made to give their opinions before doing the research. I've seen this with my own kids.
The author contends that it is not simply that the media is against America, but that they just don't have the skills to properly report things.
I agree with half of that.
Why The American Media No Longer Even Knows HOW To Report "News"
As a positive example, here is a great article on the kind of news that SHOULD be reported all over America... but is not. It is the kind of reporting that America used to have during wartime.
Marine Says Iraq Catching On To Freedom
You do learn new things from this article... and you get an opinion from an American Marine who has been there and done that. You also get the truth- when the Marine says he would rather not go back to Iraq for a third combat tour... but will definitely do so if ordered. That is the truth.
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posted by kmg at 15:33
1 Comments:
Pomoze Bog.
Mostert's column is a crock; the "reporters" in the Paleo-media know how to get a story and how to report it. The major journalism schools in the US may be hotbeds of sedition and anti-Americanism, but they DO teach their students how to do it right.
The trouble is, of course, the "reporters" choose NOT to, or if they do, their editors kill the stories if they don't toe the line. Most Journalism majors truly believe that they are going to Make a Difference, and Improve the Lot of the Human Race by being good reporters. Such hubris is doomed to self-defeat, of course, but it carries on just enough to make "reporters" self-styled Crusaders for Good.
Unfortunately, while ensconced in the pro-Marxist sweatshops of academe, these Crusaders are filled with a deep distrust of capitalism, America, and basically anything that is really decent in humanity. They are turned into either radical statist Utopians or radical cynics, with the end result being the same in each case: horribly skewed worldviews with reporting that reflects them. They can do the reporting, all right; most of them are pretty decent English majors that get twisted out of shape by the 60s leftovers who teach them. It's a shame, really, because they really COULD make a difference in the right ways if they had the souls for it.
So, this article gets it wrong. The opposite is true---they know the HOW, they just are no longer able to distinguish the WHAT once their professors get through with them.
Tsar, out.
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