Letters to the Editor
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Pro Wresting is Real!
Remember how, for decades, the professional wresting community would swear up and down that the matches were real, and not decided ahead of time? Finally though, it all got too silly, too obviously contrived to sustain and they admitted that yes, wrestling is fixed, scripted, just silly entertainment; good for a laugh, but not to be taken seriously.
Maybe it's time that CNN, FOX and soon enough, the New York Times, to admit just that, theater, a shadow play, nothing more than entertainment, whose whole purpose is to support the permanent government and the oligarchy. Nothing more.
I say go for it, wrestling never lost any ratings and neither will CNN. Most Americans don't want to know anyway.
One question he missed though, "President McCain, sorry Senator McCain, when you are the Unitary President, can I be your Press Secretary?".
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Well then...
"That was no reply. John King's standard has nothing to do with anything. Professional standards do not derive from one poor example of a reporter"
Well then, point me to the codified professional standard he violated.
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Media inbreeding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Bash
Dana's father, Stu Schwartz, is a long time ABC News producer currently the Senior Broadcast Producer of ABC News, based atGood Morning America. Her mother is an educator in Jewish studies and author of the book, "Passage to Pesach," and co-author with Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, of two books, "Jewish Moral Virtues," and "A Tourch of the Sacred." Dana's brother, David Schwartz, is a New York City-based producer of video news and video public relations.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200608090011
Wed, Aug 9, 2006
CNN's Bash uncritically repeated GOP spin [...]http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0108/The_wedding_march.html
January 07, 2008
The wedding marchSo, CNN's übercorrespondent John King and almost-übercorrespondent Dana Bash are reportedly officially engaged. King went on Bill Press' radio show this morning, was welcomed by those wags playing the "Wedding March" — aww — and then Press asked the real question: "I've worked campaigns before. How in the world do you find time to get engaged while working a presidential race?"
King: "I'm a very lucky man."
By the way, we hear Bash's ring is "huge and gorgeous."
- - The Politico
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PW: standards
Well then, point me to the codified professional standard he violated.
Summary and references here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standards
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Now you are just winging it.
It is a partisan political issue in the sense that Greenwald dislikes conservatives and would rather McCain was being called on the carpet for what Glenn sees as an egregious record.
Some claim conservatism is an ideology or philosophy (I'm unconvinced). There are political parties in some countries that are called the Conservative party. You can't really claim that here. Ron Paul is a "conservative" or an "ultra-conservative". He probably thinks John McCain is a liberal. Liberals are all neocons, now, or fascists. There is so much distortion, misinformation and cognitive dissonance created by the right wing noise machines it is no wonder you are confused. It might be more precise for you to say the Glenn dislikes neoconservatives. They have been attacked from the left and the right for years. This is an excellent instance of where the press has failed. You don't seem aware of this.
If Hillary was president and Helen Thomas was virtually sobbing as she asked questions about an issue I'd come to the same conclusion; that she was far too overtly emotionally invested in it to be in the press corp.
This is undecipherable.
I think you should reach for a life vest. There are lawyers, perhaps the occasional dr and MBA on the pundit circuit (they have generally practiced their respective fields and moved in to commentary or analysis), but as for beat reporters and television reporters, those types are pretty thin on the ground there - infact, I challenge you to find me an MBA or Dr who is a television reporter. Better money to be made elsewhere. Journalism is the choice for people who don't know what else to do.
This is false and you are just winging it. Making it up as you go along. See that article in Wiki.
"Whenever I hear someone went to journalism school I immediately assume they are inferior in one way or another," says Joel Achenbach, who writes the "Why Things Are" column for The Washington Post. "All we do is ask questions and type and occasionally turn a phrase. Why do you need to go to school for that?" Pos tEditor Katherine Boo agrees. "It's just a huge hoax," she says. "I think how you become a journalist is that you write. You don't see any correlation between journalistic education and an ability to write a story. When you get a great piece, and you call the person to see who he is, he never says 'Oh I just came from journalism school."
Even among working journalists who themselves went to journalism school, praise is not always forthcoming. "There is nothing I regret more," says Joseph Nocera, who spent two years at the journalism school at Boston University and now writes widely. "Two years that could have been spent actually learning something were instead spent at a glorified trade school -- I still recall with a shudder the two weeks spent learning how to write an obit -- except that this trade school cannot possibly teach you what you need to learn, because it is impossible to re-create the journalism environment in the classroom."
The people who do the hiring in the newsrooms echo these sentiments. "A journalism degree doesn't really carry much weight," says Jeanne Fox-Alston, the Post's newsroom recruiting director. "In fact, we are a little bit concerned when we see that someone has taken a lot of journalism classes." "If you can write, then you can figure out how to write journalism," says Peter Kovaks, the Metro editor for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The headhunters at The New YorkTimes put it even more bluntly. "It really doesn't pull any weight," says a staffer who works for Carolyn Lee, the assistant managing editor in charge of hiring at the Times. "All we are about is ability and experience." One could go on. When Dean Isaacs worked for The Washington Post, he himselfused to discriminate against the people he now instructs. "I stopped hiring people from the Columbia Journalism School, " he says. "They thought their shit didn't really smell. They were a constant morale problem." Now that he's at the school, however, he says he understands the value of a journalism degree."It teaches you a way of thinking."
http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/MediaCultureUVM/jschool_critique.html