tags: Orientation Day in the MSM, journalism, mainstream media, humor, streaming video
This video is a rather .. interesting ... look at the challenges of working as a journalist in the mainstream media in these technologically challenging days.
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Sometimes I get a little frustrated with media critic Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler because he's a little too cryptic about what he thinks drives lousy media coverage. But on Thursday he wasn't:
I don't think I could have done it much better, if at all.
A while back, I coined a term for woo so irrational, woo so desperate to masquerade as reason and science, that it could be spewed forth into books, the Internet, and the blogosophere by only one man.
For example, consider the following truthful and accurate report. You won't see mainstream media doing this. Mainstream media would give a false "balanced" view, where the Republican attack on democracy is given the same positive spin as the Democratic attempt to save it. Why is this?
So sad, so true, and so funny (albeit in a dark humor sort of way). And that's why I get my news from blogs, where people are open about being biased!
with rare exceptions, i think that "lack of bias" also means "lack of (com)passion" about a particular story, which means the desire to get to the heart of the truth is probably lacking as well.
Sounds like every single corporation in existence.
"How to grovel for a meager existence by lying to yourself about a job where the company lies to itself."
Hey, I think I'm going to go incorporate myself so I can get some of my rights as a person back...also, if somebody sues me, I'll be a corporation against an individual person...the Roberts court will back me up every time!