The journalism that bloggers actually do
The journalism that bloggers actually do, by Jay Rosen explains what bloggers have known for a while: that some journalists' opinions are not based on, ehem, journalism. It's an interesting read, but I'd like to add four more journalist-bloggers to the list:
Richard Miniter's report, How The New Republic Got Suckered in the Beauchamp story (and Richard's a journalist, too).
Confederate Yankee has also been on the story, and just last week uncovered that the Associated Press ammo story was fake, too.
EU Referendum's report on the corruption of the media reporting in Lebanon.
Charles Johnson's uncovering that the Dan Rather story on Pres. Bush's National Guard memo was totally fake.
I'm sure you can come up with a lot more examples.
Labels: journalism
posted by Fausta @ 8:13 AM
1 Comments:
I'd take it a little further.
The vast majority of bloggers who write today didn't major in journalism, don't work for any media outlet, don't depend on their "reporting" to make a living and don't have editors breathing down their necks to get the big scoop (regardless of the facts).
What they do share is a deep and abiding uneasiness that what the MSM dishes out is being swallowed verbatim by vast hordes of clueless people, that most TV talking heads and reporters consider themselves rockstars and therefore unaccountable to anyone, that our children are being indoctrinated into the fake sciences and fake belief systems promulgated by the media's cause du jour and that history is being rewritten to suit the liberal bias that they all suffer from.
I could go on and on...
We write because we believe in THE TRUTH. And the fact that bloggers are being bashed and analyzed by media and government is proof positive that we've hit a nerve. Most of us started as a reaction to our intelligence being insulted just one too many times. We recognize the lies. And we let everyone know about it!
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