December 7, 2007
Reality As It Is Now
The Associated Press wasted a reporter’s time (and any editors involved) to report that Gennifer Flowers may vote for Hillary Clinton.
(I’ll pause to let the utter uselessness of that information sink in.)
This is an example of the state of political reporting in America today.
One of the greatest dangers to journalism is the soul-sucking nonsense with which news organizations waste the time of its reporters. It causes good journalists to leave the business.
On the bright side, I’ll bet it is exactly this kind of useless nonsense that fuels the drive of citizens to practice journalism for themselves.
Posted by acline | December 7, 2007 | Posted in: Journalism | Comments (4)
On the bright side, I’ll bet it is exactly this kind of useless nonsense that fuels the drive of citizens to practice journalism for themselves.
Do you think bloggers need a code of ethics? or is it every man for himself? I’ve been wrestling with those who disguise commentary or opinion and slip it into straight news stories….
Blogging, for the most part, is not an institutional activity. So it’s very much every man for himself outside the aegis of a news organizations or some other collective arrangement.
But, to be taken seriously, I think individual bloggers must adopt some ethical standards and post those standards so that readers may check performance.
I chuckle every time a journalist or one of their “observers” complains that media’s ills and cures are more complicated than the simplistic, sensational, one-note ideological perceptions of their critics.
Do you think they realize that their “simplify then exaggerate,” conflict-oriented approach “reflects and drives the noetic field” and how hypocritical they are?
Tim… This I’m sure of: For the most part, journalists do not get proper training the Trivium. I think such training is essential to producing journalists who are sensitive to their role as, among other things, facilitators of civic discourse.
The answer to your question, I think, is: No.