searcher451
Member
"The lack of intellectual curiosity and more importantly intellectual honesty on the part of the commercial media is of such a longstanding and broad character, non-specific to any particular issue, that it can't be dismissed.
Entirely too many 'journalists' are ignorant, arrogant, indolent, prejudiced hacks. And far too many of those are PROUD of it."
Stereotyping is stereotyping, regardless of the window dressing you want to put on it. Merely stating that things are the way they are because you say that's the way things are is, in facat, exactly what you are accusing all journalists of doing. Sorry, but it doesn't hold up any any scrutiny.
Point out one journalist who fits the stereotype you paint and then prove your case with facts against this specific individual. Now do it again. Now do it again. And then keep going until you get through all of them. Sure, you are going to find some journalists who fit the broad picture you paint ... just as some gun owners fit the broad picture that the antis love to paint of us. But to lump them all into the same bag is silly, despite the assertion that it "can't be dismissed." In fact, it's easy to dismiss. We've had more than one thread on this forum in recent weeks allowing that this journalist got it right and that journalist didn't do a bad job and this other journalist worked hard to report the facts correctly.
I worked in mainstream media for 25 years, and the number of people I ran into who fall into this broadly painted picture constitutes a small list, indeed. The ones I knew then and know today prided themselves on getting the facts right because they knew that their jobs and their paychecks depended on it. The ones who didn't do that didn't last long in the business.
Entirely too many 'journalists' are ignorant, arrogant, indolent, prejudiced hacks. And far too many of those are PROUD of it."
Stereotyping is stereotyping, regardless of the window dressing you want to put on it. Merely stating that things are the way they are because you say that's the way things are is, in facat, exactly what you are accusing all journalists of doing. Sorry, but it doesn't hold up any any scrutiny.
Point out one journalist who fits the stereotype you paint and then prove your case with facts against this specific individual. Now do it again. Now do it again. And then keep going until you get through all of them. Sure, you are going to find some journalists who fit the broad picture you paint ... just as some gun owners fit the broad picture that the antis love to paint of us. But to lump them all into the same bag is silly, despite the assertion that it "can't be dismissed." In fact, it's easy to dismiss. We've had more than one thread on this forum in recent weeks allowing that this journalist got it right and that journalist didn't do a bad job and this other journalist worked hard to report the facts correctly.
I worked in mainstream media for 25 years, and the number of people I ran into who fall into this broadly painted picture constitutes a small list, indeed. The ones I knew then and know today prided themselves on getting the facts right because they knew that their jobs and their paychecks depended on it. The ones who didn't do that didn't last long in the business.