Posted on 09/21/2008 6:39:19 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
- Time pressure to be first. Half baked stories get broadcast all the time.
- Willing to deal with bad guys to be exclusive. Perfect example, CNN suppressed the murder of their own Iraq staff so they could stay in Baghdad as the “exclusive” US news agency there under Saddam.
- Powerful liberal bias and championing near any liberal cause from ecology to socialist agenda's or political candidates.
- Little repercussions for libel and slander in general. Most who are wronged simply stay quiet and let in blow over. The litmus test and standards to prove libel/slander are high and the news often even knowingly publishes stuff they know is wrong. Some simply accept the occasional legal suit as "operating expenses."
- No real professional licenses or certification processes where journalists can have their certifications revoked for illegal or unethical behavior.
- Spill over from foreign state run medias (propaganda in the real sense of its meaning). The media typically feeds on each other and they often literally take the talking points of foreign government agencies, rephrase them, and publish them.
- Journalists who are often not knowledgeable on the topic they are writing about. They often come, stay a short time, write their little story and leave, never really being a SME on the topic niether by education nor experience.
- Highly compartmental media which knowingly caters to certain niche groups they often don't even try to be neutral or objective anymore. They know their audience and pander to them, telling them what they want to hear, not what is; Al Jazziere is simply an Arab version of this phenomena, MSNBC is a liberal US, Der Spiegel an ultra liberal German, and FOX a slightly conservative US version.
- A highly competitive market place means they have to stand out from the crowd and this makes them look for conflict and sensationalize things, they stay superficial and move fast glossing over many topics, never really devoting more than say 2 minutes on any single topic. Things with pictures make the news, important stories without pictures get bumped. That's why a story about a crotch shot of Britney Spears made national news for days; famous person, sexual, pictures, the perfect mix.
Thank God for spell-check. So while it's 90% trash we get from our awesome news, at least it's grammatically correct and presented to me in super saturated colors and by a babble-head that looks pretty and professional, talking real clear and fast. The news media is a bad toy packaged in a real pretty box. They epitomize the adage of all form, no function. If I had to grade the news in this country I'd give them a "D."
It is incredibly irresponsible of you to claim the truck driver was actually drinking and got off on a technicality and then make the excuse that you didn’t even read the article. Get your act together or don’t post here!
sometimes the end comes sooner than we anticipated. ;)
I was about ready to slap you around ;-)
I agree that the MSM should be pursuing this. This lie that has been told repeatedly by Biden goes the heart of his (lack of) character.
But instead of taking Biden to task they’d rather pursue Sarah Palin and her family.
And to call him a “tractor-trailer guy” is so condescending.
Biden’s objective is to focus attention on the drunk driving conviction of Sarah’s husband 20 years ago.
Can someone put this info into WIKIPEDIA??
DITTO
A tiger is a tiger; a snake is a snake; a lying scumbag politician is a lying scumbag politician; and the sycophantic biased in-the-tank media are the sycophantic biased in-the-tank media.
We just have to deal with it, and spread the truth by the ever-expanding means available to us.
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