NYO – News Story 2 — This is one of the most amazing articles I’ve read yet about today’s journalists. It’s about how many of them witnessed events in New Orleans and could not reconcile their observations with official comments. So they had to call their editors because they did not know what to do. And many of the reporters are now sent to counselling because they had to witness the suffering and it made them sad. What the hell is wrong with these idiots? Seriously. They should be ashamed of themselves. They should sell donuts instead of reporting.
Are you telling me that these people suddenly learned to be skeptical of official accounts because what they saw was not what they were told? What? So now they admit they have been doing nothing more than parroting BS? Gosh, a reporter filing a story of what they saw for themselves. How novel!
While reading this long article I got physically ill. Seriously it sickened me. If this is what the j-Schools have churned out then the country is doomed.
excerpt:
“You’re kind of operating in a world of one-source accounts,” Ms. Barringer said, adding that her editors were crucial in helping her to put the information into context. “So what gets out is the raw information. It’s a no-spin zone.”
Sometimes the reporters were so far out ahead of the story that they found themselves ignoring official statements, instead filing reports of what they were seeing themselves.
“The problem was there was such a disconnect with what we were seeing and what we were hearing from local officials,” said New York Times reporter Shaila Dewan, who returned to Atlanta from covering Katrina in Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss. “You always have tension when you’re a reporter about how much weight to give an official’s viewpoint. In this case, it was exacerbated by the disconnect. You could walk out and count five dead bodies, and the officials were saying there were 60 dead bodies in the county, and you said, “No way, I just saw five dead bodies myself.”
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