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Re: Media Ignorance
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2016, 04:05:58 PM »
It's not a rifle or a shotgun. It's a ghost gun with a .30 caliber magazine clip. It's missing the shoulder thing that goes up.
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Re: Media Ignorance
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2016, 05:00:39 AM »
Quote from: ar154me on February 03, 2016, 02:55:00 PM
So much for editors doing their job. I am NOT a journalist but I assume there are at least 3 or 4 different people in the process of editing or approving articles before they are published.

Not any more.  With all the automation, many times, the article is only gets a cursory review from the editor if at all.    For a number of years, I'd point out some of the more egregious errors in our local paper.  I probably wasn't the only one, because after a while they ran an editorial explaining how articles can go from reporter to printing with no human review.   Cost cutting.
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Re: Media Ignorance
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2016, 05:24:33 AM »
Just look at the whole thing with CNN leaking out false information that Carson had quit the race while they were still voting in Iowa. Now they're saying that is why Cruz outperformed his polling numbers. Which could be the reason he beat Trump. That was insane for CNN to release that off a Tweet without first checking with Carson's people to confirm it. And it came from their, "star political reporter" Dana Bash. There isn't a single drop of integrity in journalism any more.
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Re: Media Ignorance
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2016, 06:00:32 AM »
Agree with Alf. I know a guy who does a history column in the local paper He does everything on his computer, formats, adds pictures then sends it to the editor who just inserts the ads and sends it to the printer.
I went into the other local paper (the free one that I read) and asked about a job as a proof reader.
The receptionist told me "we don't need a proofreader". I told her "Oh yes you do".
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Re: Media Ignorance
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2016, 01:26:59 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on February 03, 2016, 01:55:30 PM
It isn't just guns. You need to remember that these reporters went to JOIRNALISM school, they kick ass in sentence structure, and English, but they don't generally know squat about anything else.


Not any more........proper grammar is also a thing of the past.
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Re: Media Ignorance
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Re: Media Ignorance
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2016, 04:59:34 PM »
Quote from: alfsauve on February 04, 2016, 05:00:39 AM
Not any more.  With all the automation, many times, the article is only gets a cursory review from the editor if at all.    For a number of years, I'd point out some of the more egregious errors in our local paper.  I probably wasn't the only one, because after a while they ran an editorial explaining how articles can go from reporter to printing with no human review.   Cost cutting.

What we lack in budget dollars, we make up for with inaccuracy....but we here should not be so critical...piss poor might be the best they can do.
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Re: Media Ignorance
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2016, 05:16:35 PM »
Quote from: Solus on February 04, 2016, 04:59:34 PM
What we lack in budget dollars, we make up for with inaccuracy....but we here should not be so critical...piss poor might be the best they can do.

You wouldn't fly with an airline pilot that had that philosophy. Why should we accept journalists with the same?  ;D
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Re: Media Ignorance
« Reply #17 on: February 05, 2016, 07:29:25 AM »
Quote from: billt on February 04, 2016, 05:16:35 PM
You wouldn't fly with an airline pilot that had that philosophy. Why should we accept journalists with the same?  ;D

Lack of another choice????

And there in lies the reason forums like this are so popular.
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Re: Media Ignorance
« Reply #18 on: February 05, 2016, 12:45:35 PM »
And the blogosphere.
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Re: Media Ignorance
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2016, 11:52:25 AM »
Quote from: billt on February 04, 2016, 05:16:35 PM
You wouldn't fly with an airline pilot that had that philosophy. Why should we accept journalists with the same?  ;D

I don't have to read journalists' work.  A pilot has a captive audience, all the way to area of the crash  ;D.
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