don't know, prolly cnn, but it makes it harder for them to make the case he's not a faggot...
Posted on 04/29/2018 7:54:00 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Margaret Talev, president of the White House Correspondents' Association, opened the dinner with an address about the core of journalism.
"Real news is sometimes happy, heart-warming, or heart-breaking and critical or makes you angry. But we reject efforts — be it anyone, especially our elected officials — to undermine journalism as un-American," Talev said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
It's not real news that real Americans reject as un-American. It's the anti-Trump #FakeNews obsession of so-called journalists that we reject.
That lady reporter who had her computer hacked by the Obama Administration is still a real journalist. But I guess you can count them with 10 fingers.
A true journalist these days is risking their entire future and perhaps their lives.
Whoopi? Yes, another hate filled dim bulb.
These people have the standards of a “porn star.”
Good, honest journalism will eventually come back, but I doubt the transformation will come through the major existing networks, newspapers, etc.
We need to get back to H. L. Mencken in his early days. Here is perhaps the finest description of what a journalist should be about from H. L. Mencken.
We are, I suspect, a somewhat feverish race, launching out into life prematurely and wearing out before most are full grown. My grandfather was married at nineteen; my father had a business of his own at twenty-one; I was the city editor of a daily newspaper at twenty-three.
I have known what hard work is. At the time of the Baltimore fire I worked continuously from eleven o’clock Sunday morning until the dawn of Wednesday. Another time, for six months running, I ran an average of 5,000 words of news copy per day, getting the news myself and writing it myself. The reporters of today lead lordly, voluptuous lives. There were no taxicabs in my time, and the telephone was a toy. One man did the work of two, three, or four.
What keeps me going at my trade, I suppose, is my continuous curiosity, my endless interest in the stupendous farce of human existence. It is the principal and perhaps only stock of a journalist; when it begins to slip from him he is fit only for the knacker’s yard.
To be short of ideas is an experience that I have yet to suffer; it is, indeed, almost incomprehensible to me. Short of ideas in the Republic of today? As well try to imagine a Prohibition enforcement officer short of money! They dart and bang about one’s ears like electrons in a molecule. A thousand new ones are born every day.
The hard job is to choose from among them, to get some coherence into them, to weave them into more or less orderly chains. In other words, the hard job is to reduce them to plausible and ingratiating words, to make them charming, to turn them into works of art. After thirty years of incessant endeavor in that direction I come to two conclusions about it: skill at is never (or only miraculously) inborn, and it cannot be taught.
How, then, is it to be acquired? By one method only; by hard work. By trial and error. By endless experiment. Is what was done today better than what was done last year? Does it move more gracefully? Is it better organized? Then keep on. But is it still clumsy, still stiff, still dull? Then back to the office stool!
Fortunately, the quest is without end. Of the other languages I know little, but of English I have learned something. Its charm is its infinite complexity, its impenetrable mystery. Do not suspect me of rhetoric when I say that it seems to change from year to year. Or maybe those of us who write it change. We hear new melodies, sometimes far below the staff. A new and rich color appears. There is here something magnificently fascinating. The lesson is never quite learned.
Schoomarms, of course, profess to teach it. To the lions with them! I am no pedagogue myself, but at forty-five a man naturally yearns to wave his beard at the apprentices to his trade. My advice, brethren, if you would do honor to our incomparable tongue, is that you pay little heed to books, even the best. Listen to it on the street. It is there that it is alive.
No one has called journalism unAmerican. What these people do is another matter and not journalism.
Yes, this should make the public even more contemptuous of the media - showcases their viciousness and lack of objectivity and lack of standards. It makes them happy to falsely trash people they just disagree with.
don't know, prolly cnn, but it makes it harder for them to make the case he's not a faggot...
Journalism is objective. What these guys do is not journalism. It is propaganda.
Then let us know when you get back to journalism, chief.
Organizations which hire operatives from Dem administrations and fom Fed spy agencies are not practicing journalism.
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Then please DEFINE journalism.
Because the evidence is for all to see. The networks outright lie, obfuscate, omit, and propagandize. They shame their audience for doubting or not 100% trusting their “news,” even when their “news” is probably false.
If they are calling such broadcasting “journalism,” then we have a problem. It’s not. Journalism is supposed to include delivery of facts. They seem to know how, when a train crashes or a storm arrives. But when the story is political, they slant everything in order to convey one political stance only, 100% of the time.
Yeah, because obama really and truly had not one negative story or “scandal” of note in 8 years, but trump cannot go a single day without breaking every law in the universe
Is it any wonder the MSM are in dire financial straights?
Nope, no mention of Hillary. Maybe CNN was reading Wolf's prepared notes, but she decided it would be safer not to mention the Beast.
We’ll agree with your rejection if you ever commit journalism instead of daily libel and slander.
Nope, no mention of Hillary. Maybe CNN was reading Wolf's prepared notes, but she decided it would be safer not to mention the Beast.
OR Michelle Wolf lied about roasting Hillary AND CNN carried that lie. It's a dog bites man story... It's what CNN always does.
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