Comments on: When Journalists Hate Journalism…

by: Maureen

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:29:15 +0000

Great article - right to the point. Of course corporate America controls the media news which won’t change until the Murdochs of the Corporate World loose their fillthy paws from our air waves. And one commentator is correct- new journalists will not get jobs if they buck the system. Also the state of our education which stresses the test score and not the acquisition of a thinking mind tends to make the viewing public want quick easy answers that are fast thrilling and comprehensible to a 2 year old.

by: Myra Jones

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:42:22 +0000

If everything in the article–why journalists don’t like tv news–is true, then why aren’t the journalism schools responding?

Not mentioned in the article: the banal, mind numbing tv “news” is not accidental– it is done on purpose to dumb down Americans and to provide distractions from the real problem–the powerful corporations who have a vested interest in not letting anyone focus on the real problem: the Establishment.

Naturally the students will run into this wall when they get out of school and try to find jobs. and if they don’ t conform, they WONT get jobs.

The system must be changed before anything will improve. The system only tolerates people like Stewart and Colbert because they are “comedy” and are on the margins, but they would not tolerate either of them on the nightly news.

by: Mea

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:10:24 +0000

This article and your response to the “News?” was just a little incomplete. How about bending the truth to the limit, either by insult or just complete irresponsibility, by IGNORING or outright blatantly INSULTING all the women in the world with their bias disrespectful, manipulating, �Kill Hillary - Fix Obama� reporting but especially their non reporting of the Hillary Clinton Campaign including your precious “Jon Stewart(�s), et al” assassination of her bid for President. And “Democracy?” Since when is the will of well over 50% of the voting Democratic public (counting the votes that where stolen from Hillary Clinton and so graciously given to Mr. Obama by the so called “�Democratic� Party” who are seemingly ruled by Kings and Queens) completely ignored ? And who in the hell thought up the idea of a bunch of �father knows best� men and a very small group of seemingly -self-serving; Women called �SUPER DELEGATES� get to elect the possible next president of the United States- What kind of DEMOCRACY is that?????????????? The �super delegates� should in all fairness take their lead from the voting Public, without the public behind you, you have nothing. Why isn’t anyone reporting all of that? It seems to have been swept under the proverbial rug.

I have an uncomfortable feeling, having lived through this kind B,.S. before that this article is nothing more than the start of trying to mend the credibility of all the news media, Too Little, Too Late - I can�t speak for anyone else but my belief in 99.9% of the American style Media is completely and utterly damaged. I am praying extremely long and hard that the rest of the world does not take your lead.
I am deeply hurt.
Don’t kid yourselves- if I am deeply hurt, I suspect there are many others who feel the same way?

by: Cord;ey Coit

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:34:15 +0000

Years ago there was a group called the Tattooist in England. Preistly and Dick Fountaine. In the basement of Cinema Action there were Pythons or I ought to say proto Pythons and there was Riot Squad. Didn’t last long the coppers spent a lot of money running us out of town.
When I got home to Chicago I told that cannot be done in the United States. And even to this day one will not see much really happening. Look at the up coming non coverage of the Democratic Convention.
Look at PBS dead from the waist down. And look at these poor students who have been watching the box for ten hours a day between puberty and twenty.
They cannot craft the medium because they are totally part of the Matrix since age five.
In radio Ira Glass is the only new thing going with his audio Ex-Lax. Wish Goodman (best bumper music, best radio news) or someone would try interactive radio as and alternative to talk radio which has had the same format since Santa Fe 1936.
There have been lots of attempts at change but they are either underfunded or sophomoric (sophomoronic). The best cut off the talking heads or have Noam Chomsky singing No Expectations. Reifcation is the name of the game and if you don’t lie you die.

by: Steven

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:28:12 +0000

Too bad big news media will blow this article off as being biased. It’s nice to hear that our future news journalists may have a chance at being something other than puppets of mindless propaganda. That is, unless the media brainwashes the students first.

by: scuzzbucket

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:28:24 +0000

I think we just get gatvol (South African forpissed off) with having to watch badly made repeats of news we’ve covered earlier in the day.

I’m talking as a radio journo.

Unfortunately we don’t have a Jon Stewart in South Africa. We certainly need such a show - pleny of material for satire here!