How News Really Works

[Bluce Ree]

As humorous as this image is, the sad fact is that it is 100% accurate. Journalism is dead in this country.

 

[shavedape]

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891

 

[Rac80]

where are the muckraker journalists of today....a new woodward and bernstein.....oh yeah they are all kissing O's shoes.

 

[Rac80]

who can forget the glory days of 60 minutes when they went after every politician out there...well now they are merely an arm of the Obama White House: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...t_were_not_going_to_play_gotcha_with_him.html

But I think it's a question of fairness. We have not -- I think he knows that we're not going to play gotcha with him, that we're not going to go out of our way to make him look bad or stupid and we'll let him answer the questions.

--- merged: Jan 29, 2013 at 8:10 AM ---
"gotcha" was always the name of the game with political reporting...not any more- now they are merely lap dogs!

 

[YJ02]

As humorous as this image is, the sad fact is that it is 100% accurate. Journalism is dead in this country.

or NYTimes: "Obama dis's Bloomberg"