Alright y'all. I am a serious journalist, working for a serious media company that is -- seriously -- committed to giving users the best possible media experience on their terms
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There should be journalistic standards, like ANSI or OSHA. Political news should be dry, just like politics or anything with rules and standards. But oh the power of the almighty dollar...
My responses, for the record:virtuisticJuly 15 2008, 05:54:34 UTC
What information/media do you like in your election coverage?
Concrete data, supportable numbers, and references I can read so I can do my own verification. I am very skeptical of statistics. I like knowing how they are gathered, I appreciate when a company releases the methodology. I like open-note stories, which are rare.
What information/media do you dislike in your election coverage?
I can't stand finger-pointing, name-calling, talking-points, and reactionary politics. It's just catty, it's never informative, and I feel if it stopped getting coverage, it would disappear because it takes a lot of energy to always be defensive, waiting for the next attack from the opposition.
What do you want from the media in your election coverage? What's missing?Clear language, aka no slogans. "Fair and balanced" because a term that ends up meaning "somewhere there's a hidden bias." Instead of calling a battle in a war we're fighting, it's an incident or an insurgence or something. I don't think the news needs to be sterilized. I think we
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i hate Polls. i hate them. they shouldn't count as news and the reporters never ever ever say things like demographical information about the population or how the sample was gathered or what tests they used. but most importantly, polls aren't news. and i mean any poll who's ahead in the race, approval rating, support for the war, whether Americans like Great Britian, any poll.
I think that straightforward facts would be nice in reporting-- if we depend on the media to help us decide who we should be looking at, I don't care how many kids somehone has or where they are this week, I want voting records and campaign platforms. I hate that every story has to sound partisan, even if the issuing agency isn't. Two sides and where they converge and diverge would be nice.
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Concrete data, supportable numbers, and references I can read so I can do my own verification. I am very skeptical of statistics. I like knowing how they are gathered, I appreciate when a company releases the methodology. I like open-note stories, which are rare.
What information/media do you dislike in your election coverage?
I can't stand finger-pointing, name-calling, talking-points, and reactionary politics. It's just catty, it's never informative, and I feel if it stopped getting coverage, it would disappear because it takes a lot of energy to always be defensive, waiting for the next attack from the opposition.
What do you want from the media in your election coverage? What's missing?Clear language, aka no slogans. "Fair and balanced" because a term that ends up meaning "somewhere there's a hidden bias." Instead of calling a battle in a war we're fighting, it's an incident or an insurgence or something. I don't think the news needs to be sterilized. I think we ( ... )
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