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truedelphi

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21. I am sorry, but the entire philosophy of what constitutes real journalism does not
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 04:27 PM
Feb 2012

mean that any journalist or any news media entity near a power center gets to slant its news and editorialize inside its news pieces, for the sake of protection of the local industries.

In fact, due to the excesses of industries, a journalist and a news media has more responsibility per covering the local power base than otherwise.

Should a coal town news paper not cover the flagrant violations of the local mining company?

If we excuse the news media with the thinking that, "Gosh oh gee, these editors and journalists have to rub elbows with the hoi polloi of that industry when they go to parties and other social events, so of course they should be nice to them in covering the new," then we don't really have journalism. We simply have news hacks.



You are ruining manufactured outrage with FACTS!!! JoePhilly Feb 2012 #1
Mischaracterization (specifically, trying to pass off RW propaganda as "news") is about 95% of ... Faryn Balyncd Feb 2012 #2
Thank you, Faryn Balyncd JDPriestly Feb 2012 #7
There we go, this is the answer. Bunch of liars, "we can't afford ..." Yes, we can. closeupready Feb 2012 #15
Message deleted by the DU Administrators safgertrt Feb 2012 #3
"The New York Times badly misled readers..." unkachuck Feb 2012 #4
Nor does anybody care outside of the Beltway, the think tanks and the newspaper editorial boards bluestateguy Feb 2012 #5
Your words fairly sum it all up. truedelphi Feb 2012 #8
Follow the dollars. Less Medicare means more federal money McCamy Taylor Feb 2012 #6
I stopped reading the NYT because its editorials and its hand chosen truedelphi Feb 2012 #9
The only thing in defense of the NYT is that it is a company town paper and the main WCGreen Feb 2012 #10
I am sorry, but the entire philosophy of what constitutes real journalism does not truedelphi Feb 2012 #21
Untrue! Simpson and Bowles have completed their report and submitted it electronically. TrollBuster9090 Feb 2012 #11
The NY Times is CORRECT. Or the White House is lying, too. MannyGoldstein Feb 2012 #12
False, surely? Yo_Mama Feb 2012 #13
Thank you! MannyGoldstein Feb 2012 #14
indeed. i wish you would make an OP out of both the times piece and the facts you present? nt xchrom Feb 2012 #17
Why don't you? Yo_Mama Feb 2012 #18
I wish I had words of consolation or to say you're wrong. xchrom Feb 2012 #20
I read the NYT piece Alcibiades Feb 2012 #16
This "report" was little better than the Ryan Plan. SunSeeker Feb 2012 #19
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