Recently, I was watching a special on the History Channel about Peter Jennings, (seeing as he’s, you know, dead.) This show got me thinking about journalism around the world today, basically, that it should be more agressive in seeking out the truth, (I’m not talking about agressive like Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, yellow journalism, tabloid agressive, but agressive as in more active.) One reason we have the problems with the Bush administration, (and I’m not turning this into a democrat/republican thing, the truth is the man’s just incompetent. For instance, if John McCain had won, we wouldn’t be in near as much a prediciment as we are,) is that the press wasn’t willing to ask important questions. I say the press should go beyond just asking questions; they should actively be looking for faults in the government and other such institutions. This is important to me personally because I for one don’t have much faith in any kind of government system, (be it democratic, communist, anarchist, whatever…) and I myself believe that the best way to keep whatever system we have in line is an agressive, idealistic society of journalists willing to make risks to get the truth.
and you have been spun by the “main stream” (left wing) media…
you put too much faith in those who lenin affectionately called his “useful idiots”…
first the lawyers and then the journalists…
-Imp
Now that you have destroyed this post with nonsense, can you move it to mundane babble? Or who do I petition to have your post removed for being off topic and stupid?
not off topic at all…
he mentioned he had little faith in government, but he has total trust in the propagandists called “journalists”…
-Imp
(Christ, this always happens.) First of all, I don’t want to hear abot the goddamn ‘liberal media’ again. I don’t put faith in labels like liberal or conservative, just actions. And second, why, in your opinion, do journalists have to be “propagandists”? If a man finds something wrong or corrupt in the way things are running and he reports is he a propagandist? No, by God, he’s a journalist! I grant there’re many, many people who masquerade as journalists when in fact all they do is repeat their own retarted opinions behind a desk. But I’m not talking about people who give their opinion about some crap that doesn’t matter, I’m talking about people who actually go out and find corruption and stuff like that. Look, I don’t care if they’re conservative, liberal or whatever. What the world needs more than men of any particular belief system is men who are willing to act for the common good. Now that might sound cliched or even stupid in the ultra-political world we live in today, but I’m just asking what if there were people who were willing to forgoe the bias of their own politcal beliefs in the name of truth?
that is the nature of all preachers…
or a politician or a priest…
and when these “holy” journalists tell you their “true” stories of political corruption (none of which is proven with facts simply, innuendo and accusation) will you run to join the coup?
sounds like a job for the clergy.
screw the “common” good.
nothing escapes the personal bias of beliefs, political or otherwise…
and the most glorious crimes against humanity have been done in the name of the “truth”…
-Imp
Journalists who claimed to be exposing the truth are not to be trusted, they are selling a line just like everyone else.
If you want more vigilant journalists you need a more vigilant viewing public.
He didn’t say anything about trust in in the media, he said we needed journalists that were bolder. He specifically mentioned that he understands many journalists are bullshit. Nor did he say anything about lawyers, not to mention your comment about ‘“main stream” (left wing)’ media was as misplaced as your reference to lenin. I’m glad you grew up in the south, but save your half-baked convictions for a thread that they actually fit in.
no, trust in the brave journalistic “truth”… right… he never said or implied it…
the lawyers comment was a shakespeare reference…
and if you don’t understand the useful idiots reference, look it up…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
-Imp
I’m happy you’re well read and able to reference historical works and satire, but that doesn’t change anything.