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Originally Posted by Far-L
Stunning. You should write the book, seeing as how you are a graduate from the Mike South school of what I don't know I will just make an opinion based on what I think is true so it must be true and damn the facts school of blogger journalism.
Funny how all the lint on Mike South's nuts always turns out to make all these sort of comments to attack me personally because I challenged Mike to rise to the task of really breaking news and not just busting balls.
The funny part is CNBC compared him to Nikki Finke, and she was busted for exactly what Mike does, bending facts and lopsiding truth to suit a personal agenda and vendetta...  |
Yeah but here's what one must keep in mind (I'm being all professorial using "one" instead of "you", hehe): there IS no "journalism" anymore.
I know because - this will come as a shock to most - but BP (Before Peabody) I was an actual, published, made-a-living-as
Journalist (just ignore that past sentence and trust me). But I quit that profession around 2002 and got into this crazy game (after a few years of, ahem, 're-organization'). In the good ol' Glory Days of Actual Journalism we had things like fact checkers, legal departments, editors and even public organizations that held us accountable. Today? Well, the internet changed everything and now even the Supreme Court has ruled that a fucking NEWS organziation has no responsibility to tell the truth. In other words, the High Court said it's ok to lie.
(Not saying Mike South is a liar. LOL)
So please show me ANY "journalist" today? Those that play one on TV are more interested in breaking a story first, not in getting it right. And Bloggers, the "new journalists"? Well, some are great, some suck, but whatever they are (freelance editorial writers, I'd say) they sure as heck aren't 'journalists' in the traditional sense. But to expect them to be so is unrealistic in today's world.