Comments on: Bloggers Cause Disease and Death!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:35:17 +0000

Objectivity as Strategic Ritual: An Examination of Newsmen’s Notions of Objectivity (1972)

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:19:50 +0000

No problem, here’s another (which you probably also already have read):

A Free And Responsible Press (1947)

By: acline

acline — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:37:36 +0000

Tim… Thanks for the links!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:10:02 +0000

Untended Gates: The Mismanaged Press (1986) Snob Journalism: Elitism Versus Ethics for a Profession in Crisis (2003) The State of the News Media: Public Attitudes (2007)

All that comes, of course, against a background of more than 20 years of growing skepticism about journalists, their companies and the news media as an institution. As we have noted in other reports,since the early 1980s, the public has come to view the news media as less professional, less accurate, less caring, less moral and more inclined to cover up rather than correct mistakes.

By: acline

acline — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:20:30 +0000

Max… Thanks for the mention. I quit using Trackback when I stopped using the MovableType comment system in favor of Haloscan. I was just getting too much spam.

And thanks for your interest in Rhetorica.

By: Max Hansen

Max Hansen — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:26:50 +0000

Very grateful for your update, Andrew. I made a small comment on my blog (URL of that post shows here as my homepage.) Sure wish you had trackbacks.)

My point in a nutshell: adversarialism is built into our culture in ways that go far beyond the political system.

BTW, I moved you to the top of my blogroll this weekend. I think you make a tremendous contribution toward clear thinking, which is a concern of the Alpha Mind Blog.

Best,
Max