"Of course, most people don't even get that crumb of information, because reading anything beyond the headline exceeds the average attention span. As a result, the formerly objective journalist becomes the sloganeering activist."
Ironically, CNN is undergoing some much-needed soul-searching now as they got rid of a popular show called Rel…
"Of course, most people don't even get that crumb of information, because reading anything beyond the headline exceeds the average attention span. As a result, the formerly objective journalist becomes the sloganeering activist."
Ironically, CNN is undergoing some much-needed soul-searching now as they got rid of a popular show called Reliable Sources. I'm not sure what the show was like or whether it was reliable or not but it's part of what appears for now to be a new mandate to get back to *real* journalism, the way I was taught forty years ago in college. Find the facts, avoid emotionalism & your opinion, and clickbait (or 'grocery store tabloid headlines' as it was known back in the day) are for gossip rags. "CHER CAUGHT IN BRUSSELS LOVE NEST WITH HENRY KISSINGER!"
And....Twitter lost its mind over it this week, accusing them of 'Foxifying' and going right wing. No, I'm sorry, but there is NOTHING 'Foxifying' about trying to *report the news more accurately*, which CNN, like Fox, has had a problem doing in the last fifteen years. Maybe people don't understand what the new guard at CNN is stating they want to accomplish yet, or maybe the left's brains have gotten so addled by muddying male and female biological differences that they can no longer tell the difference between an alleged new commitment to *honest journalism*, and a notoriously dishonest network who claims to let 'you decide' after only telling you their side with its own firmly political spin, whose former sexually-disgraced TV commentator once claimed his now-defunct show was a 'no spin zone'.
"Of course, most people don't even get that crumb of information, because reading anything beyond the headline exceeds the average attention span. As a result, the formerly objective journalist becomes the sloganeering activist."
Ironically, CNN is undergoing some much-needed soul-searching now as they got rid of a popular show called Reliable Sources. I'm not sure what the show was like or whether it was reliable or not but it's part of what appears for now to be a new mandate to get back to *real* journalism, the way I was taught forty years ago in college. Find the facts, avoid emotionalism & your opinion, and clickbait (or 'grocery store tabloid headlines' as it was known back in the day) are for gossip rags. "CHER CAUGHT IN BRUSSELS LOVE NEST WITH HENRY KISSINGER!"
And....Twitter lost its mind over it this week, accusing them of 'Foxifying' and going right wing. No, I'm sorry, but there is NOTHING 'Foxifying' about trying to *report the news more accurately*, which CNN, like Fox, has had a problem doing in the last fifteen years. Maybe people don't understand what the new guard at CNN is stating they want to accomplish yet, or maybe the left's brains have gotten so addled by muddying male and female biological differences that they can no longer tell the difference between an alleged new commitment to *honest journalism*, and a notoriously dishonest network who claims to let 'you decide' after only telling you their side with its own firmly political spin, whose former sexually-disgraced TV commentator once claimed his now-defunct show was a 'no spin zone'.