There was some justified concern here that a liberal journalist had helped formulate a question for Rummy about having to protect Hummers with scrap. What do people make of this mess?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... ouse_x.htm
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/ ... index.html
http://www.showmenews.com/2005/Jan/20050129News009.asp
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/02/021005whReporter.htm
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/27/mcmanus/
An example from the Washington Post:
In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families. ... But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president's proposal. Her work under the contract, which ran from January through October 2002, included drafting a magazine article for the HHS official overseeing the initiative, writing brochures for the program and conducting a briefing for department officials.
"Did I violate journalistic ethics by not disclosing it?" Gallagher said yesterday. "I don't know. You tell me."
Yes!
Perhaps the most interesting one is Gannon/Guckert. Here's a gay prostitute who managed to become a favorite in the White House press room without journalist credentials, delivering softball questions on cue while using an alias. Letters back to Salon on their reporting raised the interesting point that perhaps the administration's "moral" issues with, I dunno, gay prostitutes become less important if that prostitute is providing a useful service.
How would people regulate the use of your tax dollars to promote policies through hired journalists? Or would you?
Journalists for Hire
Journalists for Hire
--Ian
Good topic
An ad should be an ad... (IE: "Uncle Sam wants YOU!")
Journalism shouldn't be advertising... and ideally it shouldn't be biased propaganda. But, it's become that and is used that way by those on both sides of the aisle and by those across the political spectrum...
Journalism, IMNSHO, should be unbiased, neutral, report the events/issues/facts/research/both sides of the issues and simply give the news... leaving the citizenry to make their own conclusions based on the information. For a long, long time that has not been the case. In fact, the use of journalists to push the agenda of the major political parties has been done since before the Blue&Grey War in the mid-1800s...
It shouldn't be that way ideally and most people feel like the media/journalism outlets are biased one way or the other... in many instances the bias is extremely blatant.
This is a tough issue, but it really shouldn't be. Journalists have been doing the bidding of the political parties, especially the one holding residency in the Whitehouse, for many, many administrations. But Americans still believe that we have a "free" media, while yet again we see that it's "free" to the highest bidder...
Journalism shouldn't be advertising... and ideally it shouldn't be biased propaganda. But, it's become that and is used that way by those on both sides of the aisle and by those across the political spectrum...
Journalism, IMNSHO, should be unbiased, neutral, report the events/issues/facts/research/both sides of the issues and simply give the news... leaving the citizenry to make their own conclusions based on the information. For a long, long time that has not been the case. In fact, the use of journalists to push the agenda of the major political parties has been done since before the Blue&Grey War in the mid-1800s...
It shouldn't be that way ideally and most people feel like the media/journalism outlets are biased one way or the other... in many instances the bias is extremely blatant. This is a tough issue, but it really shouldn't be. Journalists have been doing the bidding of the political parties, especially the one holding residency in the Whitehouse, for many, many administrations. But Americans still believe that we have a "free" media, while yet again we see that it's "free" to the highest bidder...
