One simple suggestion: close the journalism schools. College-trained journalists have turned the whole profession into advocacy rather than reportage. They actually believe that damned greeting-card slogan that their job is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Their job, last time I checked, was to report the facts!
The caliber of reporting and writing has not improved since the days when reporting was what you did if you were too skinny to become a cop or a pipefitter. Perhaps that's why fewer and fewer people subscribe to newspapers or watch the evening news.
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Date: 2008-10-14 01:51 pm (UTC)The caliber of reporting and writing has not improved since the days when reporting was what you did if you were too skinny to become a cop or a pipefitter. Perhaps that's why fewer and fewer people subscribe to newspapers or watch the evening news.
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