| Topic: |
Sociology > Education |
| User: |
"nan" |
| Date: |
07 Oct 2004 09:31:55 AM |
| Object: |
Re: Freedom of Press for NET Blogs & Citizen Journalists |
Alan Hope <not.alan.hope@mail.com> wrote in message news:<rqo1m09gnjdag5ldknvsncgr3bshuej7l0@4ax.com>...
Cleopatra goes:
Like the little socialist street urchin you are, you
believe that ad hominem attacks substitute for rational political
discourse.
Said without a hint of irony.
Quoted from article:
"When the Internet opened the door to scores of "journalists" who had
no allegiance at all to the skeptical and self-disciplined ethic of
professional news gathering, the bars were already down in many
old-line media organizations. That is how it happened that old pros
such as Dan Rather and former New York Times editor Howell Raines got
caught up in this fevered atmosphere and let their standards slip."
(reference www.freerepublic.com)
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The Media, Losing Their Way
Sun Sep 26, 1:00 AM ET Politics - www.washingtonpost.com
By David S. Broder
We don't yet know who will win the 2004 election, but we know who has
lost it. The American news media have been clobbered.
In a year when war in Iraq (news - web sites), the threat of terrorism
and looming problems with the federal budget and the nation's health
care system cry out for serious debate, the news organizations on
which people should be able to depend have been diverted into chasing
sham events: a scurrilous and largely inaccurate attack on the Vietnam
service of John Kerry (news - web sites) and a forged document
charging President Bush (news - web sites) with disobeying an order
for an Air National Guard physical.
With these events coming after the editors of two respected national
newspapers, the New York Times and USA Today, were forced to resign
because their organizations were duped by lying staff reporters, it is
hard to overcome the sense that the professional practices and code of
responsibility in journalism have suffered a body blow.
After almost a half-century in this business, I certainly feel a sense
of shame and embarrassment at our performance. The feeling is not
relieved by the awareness that others in journalism not only did fine
work on other stories but took the lead in exposing these instances of
gross malpractice.
The common feature -- and the disturbing fact -- is that none of these
damaging failures would have occurred had senior journalists not been
blind to the fact that the standards in their organizations were being
fatally compromised.
We need to be asking why this collapse has taken place.
My suspicion is that it stems from a widespread loss of confidence in
both the values of journalism and the economic viability of the news
business...
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