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Ustwo · 05-25-2005, 09:27 AM

Ok, sorry for the tangent and back to the OP.

I agree with much of what Mr.Schanberg is saying, but I think he is wrong about the press loosing its way and becoming the farce it is today. The press has always been a farce, home of slander, biased reporting, loose facts, and sensationalism. “Yellow” journalism and muck raking has been around a long time, and if you read some of the press from the founding fathers on, it makes what we are currently experiencing seem quite tame. There have been good journalists and journalism in the past, and in the present but there was no golden age they need to recapture, it has always been crap.

The difference between now and then, is back then the only public outlet was word of mouth or another paper. Now we have blogs, and websites, and message boards like this one to dissect each news article. We have people who have nothing better to do then check facts or note that the font used was MS default font. Information which once would never be known can now go world wide in only minutes. As such the flaws in the press are now glaring, obvious and while some may state they are new and due to the whatever reason, I claim they have always been there and only now have people woken up.

05-25-2005, 09:27 AM	#9 (permalink)
Ustwo Pissing in the cornflakes	Ok, sorry for the tangent and back to the OP. I agree with much of what Mr.Schanberg is saying, but I think he is wrong about the press loosing its way and becoming the farce it is today. The press has always been a farce, home of slander, biased reporting, loose facts, and sensationalism. “Yellow” journalism and muck raking has been around a long time, and if you read some of the press from the founding fathers on, it makes what we are currently experiencing seem quite tame. There have been good journalists and journalism in the past, and in the present but there was no golden age they need to recapture, it has always been crap. The difference between now and then, is back then the only public outlet was word of mouth or another paper. Now we have blogs, and websites, and message boards like this one to dissect each news article. We have people who have nothing better to do then check facts or note that the font used was MS default font. Information which once would never be known can now go world wide in only minutes. As such the flaws in the press are now glaring, obvious and while some may state they are new and due to the whatever reason, I claim they have always been there and only now have people woken up. __________________ Agents of the enemies who hold office in our own government, who attempt to eliminate our "freedoms" and our "right to know" are posting among us, I fear.....on this very forum. - host Obama - Know a Man by the friends he keeps. Last edited by Ustwo; 05-25-2005 at 09:29 AM..