tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post4924590591795557429..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-16924953112414982262012-01-12T17:14:43.031-05:002012-01-12T17:14:43.031-05:00OY!
OY X'S INFINITY!!!
We see WAY too much s...OY! <br />OY X'S INFINITY!!!<br /><br />We see WAY too much stenography and very little journalism.<br /><br />I studied journalism for a couple of years in college back in the late 70′s, and what I see now is nothing what our professors taught us back then.<br /><br />If I didn’t check, recheck, re-recheck, re-re-recheck, and check my facts again, then cross-check, I would have gotten an “F.”<br /><br />Columnists are free to give their opinions.<br /><br />Your job as a reporter is not to write down the opinions of the people you’re covering, and print them.<br /><br />A f’in recording device can do THAT!<br /><br />You’re supposed to search for the truth.<br /><br />And if you’re too lazy, stupid, ignorant, compliant, or somehow or other complicit, then please find another line of work.<br />It may save the nation.<br /><br />This has to go down in the "ANAL'S" of history, as one of the dumbest, most idiotice, fucking things I've ever read.<br />And it tells me everything I've suspected for a long, long time.<br /><br />It's like asking, should we ask a police detective to look into all sides of the story of a murder, but to not look deeper into what he/she is told to find the truth and work to convict the guilty party, because why? It'll hurt the suspects fucking feelings?!?!?!?!<br />How would THAT work out, you fucking ASSHOLES!<br /><br />Oy, oy, oy...<br />The fucking stupid - IT BURNS!!!c u n d gulaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00875369227763250574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-65117359941144928182012-01-12T17:07:50.883-05:002012-01-12T17:07:50.883-05:00If you don't have the time or space, don't...If you don't have the time or space, don't print the quote. If the candidate repeats a misleading or false claim with frequency, it deserves a column or two. My bigger problem is with reporters or interviewers not asking candidates to explain their claims, and confront them with facts. What I don't want to see is reporters opine on whether they think the candidate's claim is fair. That's not fact checking.Danphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06368147966029831819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-45612282371267301142012-01-12T15:38:42.633-05:002012-01-12T15:38:42.633-05:00I suspect you're right. Time & space would...I suspect you're right. Time & space wouldn't allow rebuttal of such a Niagara of BS. Perhaps an alternative would be some intelligent editorial choices (for a change) as to what/who gets media attention. Example: I assume that the occasion for the Demint interview was the release of some book purportedly written by him, judging by context. Surely it's common knowledge by now, even among TV types, that the publication of a book "by" an active pol of almost any persuasion is non-newsworthy, since in almost all cases, such books themselves contain nothing worthwhile. Even here in the Republic of Mass Taste, they're commonly and rapidly remaindered. So, why give Demint the time of day? If he wants to shill for his book or his general line of crap, let him hit a street corner. Hell, covering the opening of a 7-11 would have imparted more information than this interview did.BHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12991272246814476124noreply@blogger.com