Media screws up again...

"gatt" wrote in message
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"Bill Denton" wrote in message
news:40ce12e4$0$3044

"I am standing in front of a vast crater, approximately one mile across.
I
cannot determine how deep it is, some type of smoke is wafting up from
the
bottom. The crater is surrounded by large, unidentifiable, torn and
broken
pieces of metal, each about four to five feet long and two or three feet
thick."

That is solid reporting.

Unfortunately that type of reporting is for all practical purposes extinct.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message

LOL! So, where did you get all this knowledge?

Here and there.

Nice dodge. I'm sure that qualifies you as an expert witness. In other
words, you read it on the internet. What have you published?

I mean, if my Pulitzer
Prize winning advisor and national writing awards don't qualify me to
comment about the media as much as you, I want my journalism education
to be as good as yours.

A worthy goal.

In other words, you can't address the argument so you're going to be
flippant. If I want to talk to somebody who is flippant, arrogant, clueless
and convinced he knows about everything, I'll go find a teenager at the
mall.

Guys like you aren't the people that folks with actual credentials and
accomplishments behind what we say take seriously, so consider this
discussion ended.

-c

"Dave Stadt" wrote in message news:CRpzc.53

Biased journalists regularly receive journalism awards.

Won any yourself?

Didn't somebody not too long ago win one for a totally made up story?

Cite, please. Let me guess: You heard it on the news.

Doesn't do much for the credability of the award.

I'm sure you'll have no difficulty providing a source. Of course, if you
do, it will be a media source. Now, ain't that ironic?
-c

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message

Strawman, but, entertain me. Which journalism schools? Can ya
name any or are you still talking out of your ass? Name a journalism
school.

Ehh? Are you saying journalists don't go to journalism school? Or are
you
saying there are no poor journalists?

Ah. Not even a good attempt at a dodge. I asked you to name a journalism
school and you failed. Either you're attention deficit, or dodging. Either
way, you don't know what you're talking about and don't have anything to
back up your opinion. I do.

In common terminology, you're talking out of your ass. I'm not.

-c

"gatt" wrote in message
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"Dave Stadt" wrote in message news:CRpzc.53

Biased journalists regularly receive journalism awards.

Won any yourself?

Didn't somebody not too long ago win one for a totally made up story?

Cite, please. Let me guess: You heard it on the news.

Doesn't do much for the credability of the award.

I'm sure you'll have no difficulty providing a source. Of course, if you
do, it will be a media source. Now, ain't that ironic?
-c

I have not noticed that the media has an aversion to feeding on itself, in
fact I suspect they rather enjoy sticking it to the competition. It's good
for ratings you know. As I remember it was a reporter for the New York
Times or some such big name paper that got caught and was de-Pulitzered.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message

You just don't get it.

You simply have not displayed a single qualification to say, with any
authority, what I do or do not get. Your opinion here is worth nothing.

-c

"Dave Stadt" wrote in message news:dXpzc.54

That is solid reporting.

Unfortunately that type of reporting is for all practical purposes
extinct.

That's an opinion from somebody on the internet. Do you have supporting
data?

-c

"gatt" wrote in message
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That's an opinion from somebody on the internet. Do you have supporting
data?


Get serious.

"gatt" wrote in message
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Guys like you aren't the people that folks with actual credentials and
accomplishments behind what we say take seriously, so consider this
discussion ended.


You're part of the problem with journalism today.

"gatt" wrote in message
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You simply have not displayed a single qualification to say, with any
authority, what I do or do not get. Your opinion here is worth nothing.


I didn't attend a journalism school. You did. That makes me more qualified
than you.