Changing the moon and stars
Re: Newspapers, Glenn Greenwald and Jim Cramer
There are times someone can say or write something so significant it can re-arrange the thought constellations in your mind. I am one who has wished for and cheered the demise of newspapers. After reading the enclosed diary and the comments from diarist HollywoodOz in particular, I feel differently regarding my collective scorn of newspapers. The extremely well written comments have prompted me to re-consider my death wishes aimed directly at newspapers and the NYPost in particular. In relationship to the NYPost, it appears Rev. Sharpton is not going to do the boycott thing going instead to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Comment:
The problem with Greenwald's article... (12+ / 0-)
..and so many other "the MSM will kill us all" writing, is that it confuses the pundits with reporters.
I work in a large newsroom with 60 or so career reporters - people who have been around since the days when headlines were put together with scissors and paste, mixed in with about a dozen rookies - and you'd never meet a more left wing group of folks.
Union all the way, jabbing at government daily, killing them with FOI requests... yet, every day, we open the paper and see an op-ed page full of pro-government, pro-business, pro-right wing horseshit.
To be sure, nobody tells us not to hit a story that someone in power might not like. In fact, I made sure we made mention of the Stewart/Cramer showdown, and we even had a transcript on our website and a link to the clip.
But those op-eds are how we're judged, and they don't happen in our newsroom - in fact, they often get sent to us from head office of the chain and placed by a group of people who are in an entirely different office.
It sucks. It's despised. But the only thing we can do is our jobs to the best of our ability, and we do.
So when we hear "the MSM can't be trusted" and "here's hoping the newspapers die", it stings, because it's not the case.
If you wanna know who it is stirring that pot, it's the owners and executives that sit far above the newsroom, get paid ten times what we do, and make decisions that have skullfucked every good newsroom in North America financially.
Wanna fix it? It wouldn't take much.
Any smart, wealthy, left winger out there that wanted to fix this situation need only go out and buy one of the myriad of newspapers for sale right now (at a discount price) and tell the newsroom the shackles are off.
Trust me - the reporters will respond.
Fool me once, I'll punch you in the fucking head.
by HollywoodOz on Sat Mar 14, 2009 at 09:15:02 AM PDT
[ Parent ]
Greenwald Nails It - They're All Cramer
by bluesteel
Sat Mar 14, 2009 at 06:27:41 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/14/85730/7731/419/708424
And
National Action Network , Rev. Al Sharpton
http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/
As always,
BB
There are times someone can say or write something so significant it can re-arrange the thought constellations in your mind. I am one who has wished for and cheered the demise of newspapers. After reading the enclosed diary and the comments from diarist HollywoodOz in particular, I feel differently regarding my collective scorn of newspapers. The extremely well written comments have prompted me to re-consider my death wishes aimed directly at newspapers and the NYPost in particular. In relationship to the NYPost, it appears Rev. Sharpton is not going to do the boycott thing going instead to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Comment:
The problem with Greenwald's article... (12+ / 0-)
..and so many other "the MSM will kill us all" writing, is that it confuses the pundits with reporters.
I work in a large newsroom with 60 or so career reporters - people who have been around since the days when headlines were put together with scissors and paste, mixed in with about a dozen rookies - and you'd never meet a more left wing group of folks.
Union all the way, jabbing at government daily, killing them with FOI requests... yet, every day, we open the paper and see an op-ed page full of pro-government, pro-business, pro-right wing horseshit.
To be sure, nobody tells us not to hit a story that someone in power might not like. In fact, I made sure we made mention of the Stewart/Cramer showdown, and we even had a transcript on our website and a link to the clip.
But those op-eds are how we're judged, and they don't happen in our newsroom - in fact, they often get sent to us from head office of the chain and placed by a group of people who are in an entirely different office.
It sucks. It's despised. But the only thing we can do is our jobs to the best of our ability, and we do.
So when we hear "the MSM can't be trusted" and "here's hoping the newspapers die", it stings, because it's not the case.
If you wanna know who it is stirring that pot, it's the owners and executives that sit far above the newsroom, get paid ten times what we do, and make decisions that have skullfucked every good newsroom in North America financially.
Wanna fix it? It wouldn't take much.
Any smart, wealthy, left winger out there that wanted to fix this situation need only go out and buy one of the myriad of newspapers for sale right now (at a discount price) and tell the newsroom the shackles are off.
Trust me - the reporters will respond.
Fool me once, I'll punch you in the fucking head.
by HollywoodOz on Sat Mar 14, 2009 at 09:15:02 AM PDT
[ Parent ]
Greenwald Nails It - They're All Cramer
by bluesteel
Sat Mar 14, 2009 at 06:27:41 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/14/85730/7731/419/708424
And
National Action Network , Rev. Al Sharpton
http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/
As always,
BB
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