Comments on: This just in http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/07/27/this-just-in/ Scattered values and the chance of philosophy. May contain funny. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:28:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/07/27/this-just-in/#comment-1526 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:57:36 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/07/27/this-just-in/#comment-1526 You know,. I used to love ot read the news. Not watch on tv, but read about it, because when I was 6 years old I watched Walter Cronkite criticize the war my father was currently fighting in and I didn;t like that one little bit. That turned me off live news for good. So I read the papaers, and over the last two decades, the telex, newsfeeds, and now articles on the web. I'm not so much a news junkie as I am a person who likes keeping up with current events. It's always been this way. And now I have an issue with the print and Internet media outlets- they aren't reporting the events any more. Now they're reporting how THEY feel about the events. That's just plain WRONG. I took a journalism course once a long time ago. It taught me the 5 W's, how to form intelligent questions, how to write a lead and how to form a headline. And it also taught me that true journalism has an ethic, and part of that ethic is impartiality. And that's obviously not being taught any more. The press is having as field day with Mel Gibson. Here is a man who's going through a persojnal crisis of seriouslyu suicidal proportions and most every article I've read on the event is saying only that he's a Jew-Hater, how he called a female sugartits, how he went driving and driving , how BAD a man he is. And then the followup articles start attacking the Sheriff's office , accusing them of covering up the worst of it. I'm thinking I'm just plain sick of the news- and it's not even an election year. You know,. I used to love ot read the news. Not watch on tv, but read about it, because when I was 6 years old I watched Walter Cronkite criticize the war my father was currently fighting in and I didn;t like that one little bit. That turned me off live news for good. So I read the papaers, and over the last two decades, the telex, newsfeeds, and now articles on the web. I’m not so much a news junkie as I am a person who likes keeping up with current events. It’s always been this way.

And now I have an issue with the print and Internet media outlets- they aren’t reporting the events any more. Now they’re reporting how THEY feel about the events. That’s just plain WRONG.

I took a journalism course once a long time ago. It taught me the 5 W’s, how to form intelligent questions, how to write a lead and how to form a headline. And it also taught me that true journalism has an ethic, and part of that ethic is impartiality. And that’s obviously not being taught any more.

The press is having as field day with Mel Gibson. Here is a man who’s going through a persojnal crisis of seriouslyu suicidal proportions and most every article I’ve read on the event is saying only that he’s a Jew-Hater, how he called a female sugartits, how he went driving and driving , how BAD a man he is. And then the followup articles start attacking the Sheriff’s office , accusing them of covering up the worst of it.

I’m thinking I’m just plain sick of the news- and it’s not even an election year.

]]> by: Suzer http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/07/27/this-just-in/#comment-1511 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:41:47 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/07/27/this-just-in/#comment-1511 ouch! that hurt! you burst my balloon! Thanks eh. www.westcoaster.ca ouch! that hurt!
you burst my balloon!
Thanks eh.

www.westcoaster.ca

]]> by: ted http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/07/27/this-just-in/#comment-1509 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:27:41 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/07/27/this-just-in/#comment-1509 Go for it ! You're supplying a desperate need. Ask 'er indoors - I'd rather watch news that's badly-presented than miss any. (Without verbs even.) Go for it ! You’re supplying a desperate need. Ask ‘er indoors - I’d rather watch news that’s badly-presented than miss any. (Without verbs even.)

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/07/27/this-just-in/#comment-1508 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:34:44 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/07/27/this-just-in/#comment-1508 True there. Would a chef worry that he makes a living from people's hunger? Table nine - let's go. True there. Would a chef worry that he makes a living from people’s hunger?

Table nine - let’s go.

]]> by: * (asterisk) http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/07/27/this-just-in/#comment-1503 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:45:48 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/07/27/this-just-in/#comment-1503 All makes perfect sense to me. What can ya do: if you weren't doing it someone else would be. And we all want to know what's going on. Sometimes we want to know a bit more than we really need to, but that's where gossip mags fill the gap. Onwards and upwards. All makes perfect sense to me. What can ya do: if you weren’t doing it someone else would be. And we all want to know what’s going on. Sometimes we want to know a bit more than we really need to, but that’s where gossip mags fill the gap. Onwards and upwards.

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