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My previous thread about journalism

beach-mom — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:41:15 GMT

Thank you to everyone who commented on that. I couldn't add a reply to it, so it must be closed. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one concerned about where journalism is today. And Yahoo! - one of my friends said last week they were getting to be a little too much to take with some of the articles they post, but that's still my home page - for now!

I tried to think if I would ever use this as a discussion point with students. No - can't even think of doing that! (I still haven't read the article.)

Re: My previous thread about journalism

Marlyn1 — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:52:54 GMT

Did you see the movie "Truth"? It's about the Dan Rather debacle. A perfect movie for journalism students.

Re: My previous thread about journalism

beach-mom — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:09:21 GMT

@MarilynM wrote:
Did you see the movie "Truth"? It's about the Dan Rather debacle. A perfect movie for journalism students.

I haven't. Thanks for recommending it! I teach English, but I've had some experience with journalism in the past. There was much more fact and much less opinion!

Re: My previous thread about journalism

bonnielu — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 01:40:17 GMT

I DO BELIEVE that the MEDIA makes the news and from one source to another we can see the difference IN THE TRUTH as they see it. I honestly have stopped watching. I want to know what happened and not what everyone says about it. I watched pundihewho don't really know more than I about what is going to be the end results. Seems THEY have a crystal ball, or an inspiration from heavens... and only they and their opinions are right.

I am a daughter of a lifelong prominent journalist. We got 5 or so papers daily (even more on the weekend). My father taught me that even the placement on the page could determine the differenc in viewpoint and he wanted to examine it all and make up his own mind.

Re: My previous thread about journalism

Maudelynn — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 01:44:14 GMT

If you haven't read the article, I'm not sure how you can make a blanket statement about journalism today.

The article is actually quite good- and well thought out.

Re: My previous thread about journalism

Nancy Drew — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 01:50:13 GMT

Case in point: A nightly news anchor lied more than once about his experience in covering the war and was suspended for Six months. I just saw him the other night doing primary coverage. Seriously how on earth can I ever trust him again to tell me the news?

Re: My previous thread about journalism

beach-mom — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:58:36 GMT

@Maudelynn wrote:
If you haven't read the article, I'm not sure how you can make a blanket statement about journalism today.
The article is actually quite good- and well thought out.

I'm glad to hear that. I was mostly concerned about the attention-grabbing headline, but I should have read it.