Nfm.

[slwlion]

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So now it was the NIxon admin that started the decline of journalism??? What a smelly pile of BS. You need to wake up and smell the crap we have been dealt much longer than the Nixon admin. You are what you accuse Murdoch of being.

No, you injected your political bias into the equation. Murdoch actually help by exposing how corrupt the news biz is. Too many people swallowed the MSM jive for decades and never questioned what they were being fed. Fox isn't perfect but at least now people can two sides to the story and decide for themselves what to believe.

In my singular example, the media knew what was going on in Syria and the rest of the ME but didn't tell people because the Leftwing media loves blaming the US for the world's problems. Thats the story that fit their agenda so thats the story that was told.

The media loved Woodrow Wilson and never highlighted his terrible racism or his plans for eugenics. We are still paying for his racist policies and will for at least another 50 yrs. But he was a Progressive and the media wouldn't do anything to harm The Cause.

Journalism died a long time ago except for a few rare holdouts tat dare to tell the truth. Unfortunately, they have been buried in the avalanche of corrupted 'news.'

Wow. Factual and well said.

 

[elvis63]

Most people won't immerse themselves in any news story , so it's so to expect your preferred take on it to necessarily get out there on a national level. I've seen some local stories go big time and it's few and far between that what happens on the ground seems to get good representation in reporting.

Now multiply that by most national news stories you see.

 

[Ten Thousan Marbles]

Wow. Factual and well said.

Well. LOL @ "factual." TYVM.

 

[slwlion]

Well. LOL @ "factual." TYVM.

Well. LOL @ "No offense taken" TYVM .

 

[OaktonDave]

Remember the Maine!!

I think I was in 6th or 7th grade when we studied "yellow journalism" and the role of William Randolf Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer in creating public sentiment against Spain. It was the mid-70's, and my school district was anything but elite, but I learned a valuable lesson in trusting what I get from "unbiased reporters." Slanted, dishonest journalism is only slightly newer than the sex trade.

 

[simons96]

I think I was in 6th or 7th grade when we studied "yellow journalism" and the role of William Randolf Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer in creating public sentiment against Spain. It was the mid-70's, and my school district was anything but elite, but I learned a valuable lesson in trusting what I get from "unbiased reporters." Slanted, dishonest journalism is only slightly newer than the sex trade.

there seemed to be a period there from the early stages of the Vietnam Conflict thru the early 90s when journalism pretended to give a sh*t and you had a handful ethical journalists committed to good stories.

 

[The Spin Meister]

there seemed to be a period there from the early stages of the Vietnam Conflict thru the early 90s when journalism pretended to give a sh*t and you had a handful ethical journalists committed to good stories.

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Not really, they had an agenda to push. Look at my post on Syria in the 1980s. Look at VN after the Commies took over. They killed tens of thousands and imprisoned millions in 're-education camps' and the press never covered it. Lots of other examples of how the media distorted news throughout our lives.

 

[The Spin Meister]

As have you. There aren't "two sides to the story", that's really the whole point. There are only facts, which should be reported without spin- but nobody does that anymore. Advocacy journalism isn't journalism.

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There are only facts ...... May be true in mathematics or physics but not true in many things like economics, governance, social theory, politics, and much more that are open to interpretation. And this where the media bias does its damage. For some the bias is unintentional and the often the result of laziness but for far too many it is intentional. True journalism requires dedicated effort to overcome one's own biases.

 

[simons96]

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Not really, they had an agenda to push. Look at my post on Syria in the 1980s. Look at VN after the Commies took over. They killed tens of thousands and imprisoned millions in 're-education camps' and the press never covered it. Lots of other examples of how the media distorted news throughout our lives.

Cronkite notoriously fought the networks to start showing the "true" cost of the war. Agree, the big wigs have always been on the side of corporate/government interests. at least we had some news people willing to take a stand.

 

[OaktonDave]

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True journalism requires dedicated effort to overcome one's own biases.

I spent most of my professional life working in either investigative activities or program planning, and I'm convinced that your work isn't done and until someone has had a chance to scrutinize and criticize it to the hilt. I have never regretted asking a person I thought might have a decidedly different perspective to give an honest, professional assessment of what I had concluded or what I was planning. (I don't ask "safe" people who I trust to tell me what I want to hear; it's not helpful.) I always came away better informed and with better results. Too many people are afraid to have their beliefs, ideas, or their work challenged, and modern "tell me only what will reinforce my current positions" journalism is both a product of that and a contributing factor to it.