Comments on: Journalists: Liars Or Fools?

By: The Strata-Sphere » al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri And Saddam Hussein Were Planning Attacks

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:35:39 +0000

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By: 75

75 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:22:52 +0000

Liars AND fools, AJ…liars and fools.

By: WWS

WWS — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:24:08 +0000

You don’t “fix” it. You find reliable sources, stick with them, let your friends and family know about them, and let the traditional newsprint outfits die a long deserved death.

I see a future – maybe 20 years from now – where there are maybe 3 or 4 daily papers with national coverage left in the U.S. Everyone else will be on the net.

Purely local news outlets will survive a while longer, although most of them will probably move to a weekly format.

By: Karon von Gerhke

Karon von Gerhke — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:55:45 +0000

Both commentators, Crosspatch and Mark-for-Senate, have barely touched the periphery. Fact: Editors rely on news wire giants Reuters and the Associated Press. If it not on the wires it doesn’t get published. For an eye opener, revisit the news wires and watch the spin that unfolds in the national media as the liberal ideologues of mainstream media craftily distort the mere blurbs–no there word for what comes off the wires than a “blurb”– into the editorialized propaganda of their overseers, their editorial boards.

Journalists do not report the news. They editorialize the news and report their editorialize spin as fact versus opinion. Begs the question: The public’s right to know WHAT? The right-wing biased opinion of their editorial boards!

Yes, there “ought” to be a law. But there isn’t. Until there is, we owe a debt to the emergence of the Strata-Sphere’s of this world for their balanced reasoned analyses.

By: garrettc

garrettc — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:31:06 +0000

And of course we know that the educational elite, are among the most resistent to self analysis.

By: garrettc

garrettc — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:29:57 +0000

Well, look how goes to journalism schools. It is not the jhard driving students that want to be physcians, lawyers, engineers or scientists. The problem of shoddy reporting, poor grasp of facts, and poor analytical ability lies first in the pool selection and secondly in the utter lack of rigour in the education of journalists.

By: Mark_for_Senate

Mark_for_Senate — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:08:04 +0000

The big question is… How do we fix this? This shoddy DNC journalism has been going on for decades. I’m thinking of contacting the FEC, but even if charges could be proven, I doubt that any fines or punishment would be large enough to decapitate the business, but I believe it needs to be done. Perhaps a class-action type suit for ‘libel, defamation of character of the United States’ could have a chance? Just choose one first (NYT would be a good choice), I believe in just the last 6 years there are thousands of examples of mis-leading or outright false stories. Something needs to be done so that the general public has a chance to get accurate information about what is occurring in the world, since liberals have proven to be ‘not connected’ to reality.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:49:14 +0000

The way I understand it, one media outlet “leaked” an improper conclusion before the report was released and everyone ran with that. Then when the report actually came out, it said something completely different than the “leaked” report said but since that report was already “old news” by that time, nobody carried the correct story.