I often tell myself I’m the TRUE champion of my ex-girlfriend. The dude she married is real asshole.
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Never met the guy my ex-girlfriend married, but I’ve certainly told myself more than a few times that she outkicked her coverage with me and had to settle for him.
I remember that interview and cheered him for it.
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I looked up columnist Nancy Armour of USA Today, who two days ago slammed NASCAR for the garage noose (there was no correction), and discovered this totally unsolicited article, going nationwide
Yeah, Jim Crane is the only owner that wants to have fans in attendance… fuck her
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Well, that was balanced and objective. I forget what year journalism died but I remember it fondly.
Taken over by radical activists.
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The article is incredibly biased and a hot garbage editorial hit piece on the Astros, but Jim Crane needs to learn how to keep his mouth shut, too. Tone-deaf comments like this only open him and the organization up to more ridicule. There is no way fans should be allowed at MLB games until the pandemic subsides. The fact that Manfred hasn’t officially ruled out the possibility is further proof he is a terrible commissioner.
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From my view, the real “takeover” was by larger corporations hiring only pliable shills writing only to assigned narratives and caring only about about their 401(k)s.
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No, cable TV and USA Today diddled with Journalism like a perv uncle, then it started getting gang raped when the WWW became available. Smart phones put it in a choke hold. Twitter was the bullet to the head.
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America’s collective ADHD played a role, too.
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Journalism died with the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. “News” outlets no longer had any regulatory requirement to present equal sides of controversial issues, nor did they have to even stick to something resembling the truth. They were allowed to present nothing but hypotheticals and opinions and label it “news”. The media simply stopped having any obligation to serve the public interest.
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I understand what you are saying but that is unfair to people who really suffer from ADHD. It’s also caused in part to Americans never, or hardly ever, having to use critical thinking skills and a willingness to allow others to think for them.
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And before that was the first amendment. Journalism has always been a sketchy business. And it is a world wide thing. But now it is a farce that wears both masks of comedy and tragedy.
This draws from the fact that we never, ever teach critical thinking skills in our schools, merely and endless regurgitation of facts.
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Never, ever eh? Not in any class by any teacher anywhere eh? Are you a teacher? If not, perhaps you should become one and show them how to do it.
OK, “never” is a poor choice of words. In our testing, standards, and therefore lesson plans, we do not emphasize it anywhere to the extent it should be.
I get the 1st Amendment part. Journalists have no Constitutional or legal requirement to be fair, objective, or even particularly accurate. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a professional ethical obligation to be so.
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That’s mostly because parents scream bloody murder when we do. Common core math is the most obvious example of this, but it’s manifest in other areas too. Parents want their kids to get good grades, not necessarily excel at learning.
It’s a paradox. Is it the free media’s job to inform or influence or entertain, or answer to shareholders, or just collect eyes and clicks? It is also contrary to their nature to have a regulatory body, bad enough that one must deal with a publisher or even an editor. But to have someone telling them what can or can’t be allowed, that’s censorship.
It depends on your first sentence. Do you think the news media should be there for the public good or strictly as entertainment. There used to be a strong belief in the former. Now it’s almost entirely the latter. It’s also kind of a chicken and egg argument as to why that changed.
And this is the same argument for any governmental regulation. Why should the government tell any company what they can and cannot do? What if it affects the public welfare? Are we OK with regulation such as FDA requirements on drug labeling or the Clean Water Act? Maybe. Depends on who you ask. News used to be viewed with that same level of seriousness. It no longer is, even though we wail about fake news or the blind sheep who get all they need to know from a Facebook meme. We collectively have decided that’s OK.