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With journalists being laid off in droves, savvy political operatives have stepped eagerly into the breach. What’s most troubling is not that TV-news producers mistake their work for journalism, which is bad enough, but that young people drawn to journalism increasingly see no distinction between disinterested reporting and hit-jobbery. The very smart and capable young men (more on them in a moment) who actually dug up and initially posted the Sotomayor ... Full Story »

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Fred Gatlin
3.9
by Fred Gatlin - Sep. 9, 2009

This story is an example of what has happened to journalism. The choice to use video from people, who are not reports and not fair without question, causes problems.

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