[Wally_Kalbacken]

Went to bed early and missed the whole thing. As regards the miners - a tragedy. Regarding the state of journalism today - tragicomedy. FNC needs to develop a sense of news judgment that means a) it covers important stories (i.e., do not interrupt an interview with Henry Kissinger to cut to a live shot of a dog rescue from a cliff high above the Pacific Ocean) and b) it holds its breath long enough find out the inherent validity of the information it presents. The other networks, as well as the NYT - they're beyond hope.

[bessay]

"it holds its breath long enough find out the inherent validity of the information it presents"

It was obvious to me that some reporters were concerned. One guy asked people over and over, "who told you that" and one guy even said that it was "wierd" that there had been no press conference or confirmation.

All someone would have had to do was make their headline "Unconfirmed Report - all 12 alive". They use the word "alleged" even when talking about confessed murders, but not in this case.

Geraldo is just sad. Another Capone's safe on his resume. Was he the guy who reported Dewey's win over Truman too?

[Alberta's Child]

Despite the fact that it has a reputation as a mildly "conservative" news outlet, the success of Fox News is actually a sign of a serious decline in journalism in the electronic media. Fox -- like the rest of Rupert Murdoch's media empire -- is a sh!tty, tabloid media outlet that is characterized by sensationalism and mediocrity.

Any doubts about that should have been dispelled when they hired that @sshole Geraldo Rivera Jerry Rivers. If the Katrina story had run for one more day, I would have expected Fox to run a couple of stories suggesting that Natalee Holloway had been sighted inside the Superdome.