"Richard Webb -> JOHN FITZGERALD"  wrote in news:29445
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 JF>>    Nowadays, most so called journalists only parrot what comes over
 JF>> the  news wires.  When they go to a scene or situation, most of them
 JF>> end up sitting in a room copying each other's notes over coffee. Or
 JF>> they will  stand in front of a camera and spew empty rhetoric for
 JF>> party hacks to  gobble up.  If you want to get good insights into
 JF>> controversial issues, you have to go to the right, see what they're
 JF>> not telling you, to the  left and see what they're not telling you
 JF>> and in some cases to foreign  news outlets.  Half of the time all
 JF>> you can do is get as many facts  together as you can and connect the
 JF>> dots for yourself.


 RW> Would agree, and try to do that.  This sort of so-called
 RW> journalism suits the bean counters that run the newspapers
 RW> and other media outlets well too.  IF we're owned by left
 RW> leaning folks we don't offend them, or their advertisers.
 RW> IF we're to the right, we don't offend either.  REal
 RW> journalism might mean that we gore the ox of the big
 RW> advertiser, or not promote the owners' point of view.

 RW> Iow, real journalism is dead, sound the dirge.

When Fox (har har) "news" went to court in Florida, to get the
"right" to
lie, and they won, it sounded the last bell.

We don't get news anymore.
We have entertainment fighting like hell for ratings, calling themselves
"news."

When a very tiny minority of loud, obnoxious people monopolize coverage of
town hall meetings, simply because they ARE loud and obnoxious, it speaks
volumes about how supermarket tabloid-like the news networks have become.

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