In this day and age, only the truly deranged - like Dan Rather - would claim that the “traditional” media outlets, such as newspapers and the original three broadcast networks, are not biased. But in case we need any reminders, we got a couple more this week (summarized here at NewsBusters.org).
First, it was reported that reporters and editors at the Seattle Times cheered the news that Karl Rove was resigning.
Then, Joe Scarborough revealed that personnel in the MSNBC newsroom - including some charged with coverage of the Administration - openly booed President Bush’s State of the Union address.
The really surprising news, though, is that: (1) the Times’ management subsequently issued an internal memo rebuking the employees for their conduct, and: (2) after Scarborough informed a network executive of MSNBC’s newsroom’s counduct, the executive “turned red” and the scene has not since been repeated. (Of course, one wonders if these actions were taken because both media outhouses outlets knew they couldn’t keep these acts under wraps.)
Back in “the day,” my journalism school, admittedly populated by liberals, actually forcefully made the distinction between reporting and commentary, and upbraided students who turned in news stories that sounded like columns.
Yet the Times and MSNBC can’t even run their “newsrooms” like a 1970s college newspaper! And these people want us to trust them?
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As you said, knowing the difference between reporting the news and commentating, expostulating, and opinionating on is a characteristic sorely lacking in today’s news media. Which is, IMNSHO, the gist of the entire problem. What the heck are they TEACHING in journalism schools today?!?
The same skidmarks that wouldn’t wear an American Flag pin on camera to appear impartial?
I hate the media. I really do. Every story, even local ones I give the stink eye to. I’ve seen it with my own beady eyes on crime scenes I was involved in. They didn’t have anyone to talk to and just made up a story. Remember Katrina and the thousands of bodies “floating in the streets”? Well… that never materialized. But did you ever REALLY hear a retraction from the MSM? Look how they are flocking to the coast to watch it rain. They are vultures that feed on misery and try and make themselves appear above it and somehow their profession is noble. They sit in judgment of us ALL, everyone could potentially be the target of a news story if, God forbid, some tragedy occurred. Yet who watches them? They have no one to call them on their shenanigans!
Look at this and tell me if they are not trying to manipulate our opinions instead of reporting facts:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/08/15/credulous-photojournalism-of-the-day/
OH let me answer this……… my kiddo is a journalism major at UNT. She is not liberal. She is a libertarian……… She has not complained about liberal bias at her school, and also is a political science minor.
Remember the LA Times war photos of a Brit Soldier photochopped? The Brit Soldiers “torturing” prisoners? Remember the Lebanon photochopped photos? To a reporter, facts (and now photos) are pliable. The story is never as good as their opinion.
Newsbusters.org is a great source.
Rick,
To be fair…I booed during certain portions of His Highness GWB’s State of the Union address.
Tom Brokaw (no conservative) was recorded as saying (not for broadcast) “As come on Mr President.” during one of Bill Clintons.
Its too bad there isn’t more booing when these jerk$%%s speak in public. They might just get the idea that not everybody buys their bologne.
It is no secret that Clinton and Bush tightly controlled their crowds to weed out possible hecklers. Wouldn’t want to bruise their egos.
Simple
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” Harry S. Truman
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I heard a media critic (I wish I could remember who) recently complain that so many reporters are lazy, which is why they spend so much time interviewing each other. I thought that was a good point. When I was growing up, I don’t remember the media being “part of the story” nearly as much as they are today.
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That’s great news ah. UNT must be a special place. Maybe we should promote it.
5. Simple
The difference is, your job (at least as far as I know) doesn’t require “objective” reporting of the people you are booing. That doesn’t do much for their credibility as “objective” journalists which is why people don’t trust them.
Now, if Andy Rooney or loopy Chris Matthews or Pat Buchanan want to boo, I don’t care - they are not reporters. But if the news guy on the White House beat is booing the President’s speech, he needs to be replaced. IMHO, of course.
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I was going to comment on that but I couldn’t remember or find who said that. Look at how they were slapping each other ob the back after Katrina. Making themselves look like heroes and reporting hysterical claims of crackheads as fact. When I watched the news I thought the Super Dome was going to be piled sky high with decaying dead bodies, same for the Convention Center. None of that happened. I thing a few old and sick people died from the heat or lack of meds. The media played a switcheroo to point out how incompetent the Federal government was, but conveniently forgot about their own missteps in the fiasco. There are still people that believe that 30,000 people died in NOLA.
Rick,
The lazy journalist critique is valid, but don’t forget the “cheap” factor.
Going out to dig up facts and objectively reporting them requires money and staff. Talking Heads interviewing Pundits does not cost much at all.
CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and the three major networks have all de-evolved into this pattern.
Personally, I listen to my IPOD a lot more these days.
Simple
They did - don’t you know Bush and Cheney cover it up?
You’re right. It is almost funny to look back on their breathless coverage during Katrina (almost as if they were hoping for the worst). And they quoted every word Ray Nagin said as gospel!! What a farce.
Ray Nagin doesn’t always tell the truth? Come on Rick, when have you ever heard of a dishonest politician in Louisiana?
8. Fastie,
Not exactly a new trait in the media. William Randolph Hearst bragged that he single-handedly started the Spanish-American War to sell more newspapers.
He printed downright lies about the explosion on the USS Maine and led the American public to believe the Spanish torpedoed or mined the Maine.
The Spanish at the time had no desire to take on the Americans and the evidence today indicates the explosion came from within the Maine rather than from the outside.
Believe only a third of what you read, half of what you hear, and only very little of what you “see” on television.
Simple
Pity anyone who cannot think for themselves. That is why the “Poverty Pimps” want to keep people uneducated so that those poor people have to rely them to lead and accept their ideas and principles as gospel.