by The quote of the day comes from Don Surber. He started in journalism when journalists reported the facts and left opinions to the editorial writers. Sadly today every so-called journalist on TV or in the press wants to add their own slant to every story.
From Don on how the press covered Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu‘s address to Congress and how it virtually ignored the violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations in DC which made January 6th look like a picnic:
Today’s journalists do not write news stories. They write press releases.
Unlike Winston Smith who had doubts about the Party, today’s journalists are busy rewriting history so that it matches the narrative of the day. If they aren’t rewriting history, they are erasing it.
“Today’s journalists aren’t.” – me
My BA in Journalism has been gathering dust since graduation day in 1985.
By the time I finished my active Army obligation in 1989, it was already clear that reporters had been replaced with repeaters.
When I was in grad school in Poli Sci I taught a class on state and local politics. It must have been required by the Journalism School at UNC because the students were almost all journalism majors. Back then my biggest complaint about these budding journalists was that they wrote in one-sentence paragraphs. This would have been about the time you were starting J-School.