Re: The confession of a press romantics: The truth about investigate

More fact on America's "free press"? How about some facts on China's
"free press"?

Hey, LT Lee I dont recall you ever post one that admired America, they
are all negative. Is America a hell or what? And I dont recall you
ever post one that criticized PRC so is PRC a paradise or what? Then
how come you prefer hell to paradise???


On Jul 23, 11:19=A0am, ltlee1 <ltl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> More fact on America's "free press."
>
> From Sommerville "HOW THE NEWS MAKE US DUMB," =A0we had learnt that
> press is making
> Americans dumb. From American pollster Andrew Kohut's book,"AMERICA
> AGAINST THE WORLD: How We Are Different And Why We Are Disliked," we
> found that Americans do have a disconnect of a major order. In a
> previous post, I showed that how NYTimes' selective non-coverage on
> the recent Shangri-La Dialogue could have =A0contributed to America's
> disconnection from the rest of the world and from the reality.
>
> In this post, the mechanics of the news coverage by America's so
> called "free press" was brought to light
> Mary Mapes, the Peabody Award-winning CBS news producer and the author
> of the book "TRUTH AND DUTY" was a press romantics. She thought the
> press was special and journalists were special. But then she
> discovered the truth when she was the subject of journalistic
> investigation. Investigative re****ting was not investigative re****ting
> at all. In short, the press behaved like a digital lynching mob.
>
> "In many ways, I can't blame them, because of what has become the
> superficial nature of daily news re****ting. Journalism, particularly
> television, no longer does complex, complicated, or subtle very well.
> It rarely does real investigation. And God knows, journalism today has
> devolved into repeating more than re****ting. If it's online, it will
> soon be on the air. And the anchors and re****ters broadcasting it are
> not checking out the facts in each case. They can't. There is just no
> time in a world of twenty-four-a-day news cycles, where a story
> erupts, gets beaten like a dead horse, and then dragged off-screen to
> make way for something new.
>
> Rarely are journalists as careful or as thoughtful as they could be.
> My complaints are aimed at myself as well."