The Story Behind the Story
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 »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
I enjoyed the article very much as I think journalism and the media today are falling down on the job. Like it or not they all have a political agenda are afraid to upset sponsors. They do give the public what it needs or thinks they want but what they perceive the public is demanding whether it is true or not. Sensationalism has no place in honest journalism or in the media who profess to serve the public.