On Monday 09 July 2007, Tim wrote: >On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:30 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote: >> Can't say as I've ever, EVER seen a more incompetent interviewer in my >> life. What the hell has happened to the profession of journalism? > >It went down the toilet with the rest of radio and television. I can't >say that I've seen the story you mentioned, but I've seen plenty of crap >journalism. It really gets me is when you see a reporter interviewing >someone like a politician who is doing something outrageous, and the >reporter never even asks the "why?" question. We even had one of our >journos get caught out making up a story, and their response to being >caught out was, "It doesn't really matter if it's not true, as long as >it's interesting enough." I can guarantee that a reporter with such an attitude wouldn't last long at my former station. We took extreme pride in the truthfullness of what goes on the air. More than one reporter/journalist has run afoul of this now elderly CE for not coming to me to ascertain the facts about something technical that was over his/her head. >Journalist - one who's told some unsubstantiated information, accepts it >as fact, and invents a story to go along with it. Relies heavily on a >cliche handbook. > >-- >[tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr >2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 > >Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. > >Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. >I read messages from the public lists. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) MMM-MM!! So THIS is BIO-NEBULATION!
