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"The U.S. media hardly ever does its job these
days.... Part of it, I think,
is the loss of the "investigative news" function in favor of "news as entertainment." Well, that is the lazy part of today's press. But it goes much farther in my opinion. Today's press in my area "just makes it up". If the real news doesn't suit them, then they just make it up. I've had debates with reporters, editors, and publishers about
errors and seriously misleading reporting about subjects that I intimately knew
the facts. I was shocked by the lack of embarrassment for what in some
cases turned out to be deliberate lies or misrepresentation. You can't
trust what you read in any one paper today because they are as political as any
of the worst liars.
I don't mind a paper or a reporter having an opinion and
expressing it, as long as the reader can determine the difference between the
news and the opinion. When newspapers lie, then ....
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eco-terrorism with 'anti-... Who is Ron Arnold? The U.S. media hardly ever does its job these days.... Part of it, I think, is the loss of the "investigative news" function in favor of "news as entertainment." A kind of high water death of the news media was the behaviour of the Washington press corp at Bush's "scripted" news conference before the Iraq War. However, there is hope....you can go to media outside this country to hear about what is going on inside. Did any of you hear about this story from major media about how Arnold Schwarzenager conspired with Enron's Ken Lay and junk bond criminal Michael Milken to favor cheating electric utilities? On this weekend, this should be the most important political story in the national news media, but it is no where to be found.....fairly shocking political news to say the least..... .....not Arnold's Hitler-Envy and career groping behaviour http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=283&row=0 By the way, one of the best ways to actually keep up with what is going on and get through the lies and the news banalities is to look at this site every single day..... http://www.buzzflash.com Alex J. Sagady & Associates http://www.sagady.com Environmental Enforcement, Permit/Technical Review, Public Policy, Evidence Review and Litigation Investigation on Air, Water and Waste/Community Environmental and Resource Protection Prospectus at: http://www.sagady.com/sagady.pdf PO Box 39, East Lansing, MI 48826-0039 (517) 332-6971; (517) 332-8987 (fax); ajs@sagady.com ========================================== |