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Man, can I call it or can I call it?
I've been saying that the old media is out the door, and will be replaced by new, hungry, and ethical JOURNALISTS the likes of which we haven't seen in quite some time.
The old guard is being replaced and thank goodness. The newspapers are pretty much dead anyway, except to provide local color, and people are no longer giving the dishonest, lying, agenda-driven newsMAKER reporters the time of day.
I'm glad to see it happen. Without a free press that includes ETHICAL and objective REPORTERS (not just commentators and propagandists) this country is doomed.
And just in case you doubted it, here comes Morley to bemoan the advent of a new age:
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Last month, broadcast TV lifer Morely Safer, of CBS's 60 Minutes fame, appeared on CSPAN and pronounced himself "appalled" by the denizens of the new media.
Citizen journalists aren't trained well enough to be trusted as a source of news, Safer declared to CSPAN's Brian Lamb on Sept. 13.
In fact, he's downright "appalled" by the whole idea of Internet journalism and seems to wish it would all just go away. We need to leave the "reporting" to him and his professional class of "real" journalists, Safer sonorously declared.
The question about citizen journalism was put to Safer after Lamb showed the aged newsman a clip of former Daily Caller correspondent Michelle Fields. On the clip, Fields was seen celebrating the advent of the new media.
Safer, a Canadian, admitted that he "sounds like a Neanderthal" with his hatred of citizen journalism -- which, he said, he'd trust as much as he'd trust "a citizen surgeon" -- nonetheless he rejects the idea that mere citizens can be a legitimate source of news reporting."
Morely Safer 'Appalled' by New Media
I've been saying that the old media is out the door, and will be replaced by new, hungry, and ethical JOURNALISTS the likes of which we haven't seen in quite some time.
The old guard is being replaced and thank goodness. The newspapers are pretty much dead anyway, except to provide local color, and people are no longer giving the dishonest, lying, agenda-driven newsMAKER reporters the time of day.
I'm glad to see it happen. Without a free press that includes ETHICAL and objective REPORTERS (not just commentators and propagandists) this country is doomed.
And just in case you doubted it, here comes Morley to bemoan the advent of a new age:
"
Last month, broadcast TV lifer Morely Safer, of CBS's 60 Minutes fame, appeared on CSPAN and pronounced himself "appalled" by the denizens of the new media.
Citizen journalists aren't trained well enough to be trusted as a source of news, Safer declared to CSPAN's Brian Lamb on Sept. 13.
In fact, he's downright "appalled" by the whole idea of Internet journalism and seems to wish it would all just go away. We need to leave the "reporting" to him and his professional class of "real" journalists, Safer sonorously declared.
The question about citizen journalism was put to Safer after Lamb showed the aged newsman a clip of former Daily Caller correspondent Michelle Fields. On the clip, Fields was seen celebrating the advent of the new media.
Safer, a Canadian, admitted that he "sounds like a Neanderthal" with his hatred of citizen journalism -- which, he said, he'd trust as much as he'd trust "a citizen surgeon" -- nonetheless he rejects the idea that mere citizens can be a legitimate source of news reporting."
Morely Safer 'Appalled' by New Media