Some media quotes

[kahljorn]

i wasnt even going to respond to this thread any further because i keep getting gay responses but here we go anyway I'm really bored:

"This is the assumption of someone who has never worked at a paper, and never actually studied journalism. It's a widely held opinion, and easy to cling to."

What? Which part of that paragraph were you talking about? My analysis of their ethic being to report the grey truth? Didn't you say they are supposed to report impartially? BUT LOOK OUT I DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT JOURNALISM NOT LIKE GRISLYGUS CLARK CUNTFACE.
Was it that most journalists are idiots? because most people are idiots and there's no reason to argue that.
is it that reporters don't follow their moral code? I don't see how it's possible to report an objective story without realizing that your story is unobjective (possibly due to the lack of information involved) and therefore "Immoral". Stretching beyond that, when you are reporting politics and you have a political association you're more likely to side with the people who are on your side. Hence, impartial. That doesn't really need explaining beyond that. I mean, even showing more of one persons side of the debate/issue than the other is technically "Impartial". Am I right? Isn't that "Partial" to only show "Part" of the "Story"?
See what you really need to consider with the ethic for journalists is what type of an effect the paper is having on the people: Does it give them all the information, or leave them hanging? Does it give them half of the story so that that particular side of the story seems more correct? Impressions are worth a bundle.
I think the newspapers should report both sides to political issues (I'd even like to see third parties thrown in there) because newspapers and the news are supposed to be the masses way to understand politics and make informed, nonstupid decisions when they vote. In my opinion, that's the only purpose of News beyond weather and finding out where a car accident might be. Everything else is inconsequential and focused on making money-- which i would call immoral in light of the circumstance.

And yes there are OTHER FORMS OF JOURNALISM big surprise and yes it's easier to be impartial about sports or fires because you can't lie about the score at the end of the game. but then, sports are inconsequential and gay.

"That is a highly heated topic, and I'm not qualified to argue it. however, I would like to clear something up. "

The government chooses it's press releases and chooses what information to release. Kind of like when the police department only releases certain information about crimes. Same thing could be said for democrat/republican press releases versus the other side ;/
Politically, information is released when it's most valuable or "Needed". Since the government controls what information they release to the press, and they actually consider what effect that information has, they are ERGO using the press. It's not like the government or practically any institution gets involved with the press without considering the publicity and such.
No heated debate about it. Just fact. Whether the government uses the press to some extreme degree is a completely different matter. Never once in this thread did I state that the press is the governments mouth of propaganda and manipulation for hiding the truth. (bolded so idiots like ant can read before they run their mouths) Usually hiding the truth is done best by not talking about it :O Or behind a wall of lies I guess but walls are easily peeked over.