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sarcasticchick

Another link babble post brought to you by yours truly!

Apr 07, 2008 18:16

for starters, a faux noise link. I KNOW. i can't believe i'm doing this. linking to faux noise? wtf??? however, it is an interview with a white catholic priest who sums up the whole reverand wright (non)issue beautifully. he schools the reporter who should NOT be a journalist for as much as he a) acts like a freshman in college working on his ( Read more... )

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eumenidis April 8 2008, 18:27:09 UTC

Well, for a little while after 9/11 American journalism took a look at itself, but clearly it's back to sloppy or no research & sensationalism again ( ... )

sarcasticchick April 8 2008, 23:14:51 UTC

Well, for a little while after 9/11 American journalism took a look at itself, but clearly it's back to sloppy or no research & sensationalism again.

i wasn't paying enough attention at the time to news/media and the content - i just wasn't interested/hadn't had my eyes opened i guess ;) i do remember the non-stop coverage post 9/11, and how it was almost more depressing to be sucked into the non-stop coverage. looking back on it now, i feel like that was the start of the sensationist journalism, because of the trauma, because of the intrigue and the beginning of the grip of fear that's strangling the US. i could be wrong, i simply just don't remember indivdual journalists, etc.. as far as coverage went. but from view now looking back, the gov just snowballed everyone with the fear factor, and shoehorning those who might have protested through exploitation of revenge/fear... was journalism that great? i feel failed by journalists, from then up to present.

except for KO. and jon stewart and stephen colbert. ;)

You're a ( ... )

eumenidis April 9 2008, 05:41:58 UTC

My, I certainly did run off at the keyboard on that one, didn't I ( ... )

sarcasticchick April 9 2008, 23:00:52 UTC

But we Americans let ourselves down by accepting poor journalism & complacent public officials.

and people wonder why i <3 KO, JS and SC. ;) i can hardly stand to watch most "news programs" (in quotes both for definition of news programs as well as the fact that technically, none of the three listed above are technically 'news programs') any more, but those three are the saving grace of news. cause while they might mock the hell out of news events, there's thought and criticism applied - and not of the bill o'really? kind.

good call on the gov reaction to 9/11 - i think part of it was the panic you talked about, and i think, part guilt. not that they were in any part -responsible- as conspiracy theorists might have it, but rather that they knew something was up and did nothing/ignored it, either with intention or not.

Well, I'm an atheist, though I'm not sure I know what you mean by hard-core.eh, i tend to view religion et al as i do degrees of vegetarianism. ;) and vegans? hardcore. altho then there's your raw foods ( ... )

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