Comments on: So whaddaya think: should we put truthtelling back up there at number one?

By: interview question

interview question — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:04:03 +0000

interview question…

[...]So whaddaya think: should we put truthtelling back up there at number one? » Pressthink[...]…

By: Charles Frith

Charles Frith — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:04:37 +0000

The model is broken. You had 10 years to call out the 911 commission report is a lie and not one paper has done so. Journalism is dead. The Guardian’s campaign against phone hacking a notable exception. Even if you knew the truth you haven’t got the guts to print it. You suck.

By: Lew Glendenning

Lew Glendenning — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:54:40 +0000

Yes, these publications and intrepid journalists ( Gary Webb was an honest man, RIP) made such a change in the future.

The change was none at all, except for a few people who remember the truth, and now distrust MSM, our completely illegitimate government( doesn’t follow the Constitution and Congress doesn’t represent the people), and most of the other elements of the Establishment.

How can the Woodstock generation have such good intentions and have produced such a bleak future?

By: Christopher Sly

Christopher Sly — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:42:17 +0000

I believe that the lies being told, the motivation of the liar, and the reason for the particular lies chosen, ARE the story. Otherwise the news serves no greater purpose than dissemination of selfishly motivated deceit. “He-said-she-said” may make great theater, but in a NEWS paper, “it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

By: DrDave

DrDave — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:35:44 +0000

The Times (and the Washington Post) used to have a great reputation. They don’t anymore; they just pretend. The question really is, do they want to reestablish their reputation? And the answer is, they are not yet sure, they are just putting a toe in the water. The sad truth is that the toe-testers will not make great reporters.

By: David Holmberg

David Holmberg — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:11:31 +0000

great idea.

By: David Holmberg

David Holmberg — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:10:21 +0000

miller picked the wrong sources, and was burned by them. she wasn’t trying to “defend the powerful.”

By: David Holmberg

David Holmberg — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:03:19 +0000

Ryan is exactly right about Brisbane. Everybody’s a media critic these days but unfortunately most of them are riding a wave of ignorance about what reporters actually do, and what they’re trying to accomplish.

By: David Holmberg

David Holmberg — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:52:14 +0000

oh for god’s sake, any working journalist in the past 50 years would claim it. As would any critic of the press who isn’t a captive of the digital revolution.

This sort of ahistorical nonsense has become so dominant in contemporary discussions of the media that it is verging on the conventional wisdom of the moment. But any such wisdom is ephemeral, and one can only hope that a new respect and awareness of journalism’s role in American history will emerge in another generation or two.

By: David Holmberg

David Holmberg — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:31:44 +0000

May I ask what line of work you’re in? And are you as ignorant as you appear?