Some media quotes

[Grislygus]

Originally Posted by kahljorn

You know what grislygus i really dislike your position in this thread because it's the position of, "IM A JOURNALIST SO EVERYTHING I SAY MUST BE CORRECT AND EVERYTHING YOU SAY MUST BE WRONG".

No, that's what you've interpreted it to be. I've already admitted that my only experience is talking to journalists and interning for newspapers. My position is that "I have some experience, and you apparently have none, so who are you to call all journalists idiots?"

You took umbrage as soon as I even mentioned some familiarity with the subject, which makes me suspect that I'm correct.

Originally Posted by kahljorn

Now let's play another game! You said I didn't know what the journalistic ethic is(mostly because you're full of yourself, I can see these things even over the internet grislypriss)

Before you even mentioned what the journalistic ethic is:
"The journalist ethic is supposed to be honest, grey "truth"(just the facts, mam!). Has that ever happened? "

That's what I said, maybe it's not the rhetoric definition you heard in your media and society classroom that's in every textbook everywhere but it means the same damned thing. Here's what gray means!
Intermediate in character or position, as with regard to a subjective matter: the gray area between their differing opinions on the film's morality.

You're partly right. As a rule, all journalists are supposed to strive for the facts alone. However, that rarely happens, so there is a code of ethics which journalists follow in order to be as impartial as possible.

This is still a seperate matter from your position that all journalists are idiots. Which you then changed to roughly "90% of journalists are dishonest and only care about getting a story in", which you then changed to "90% of [/i]political[i] journalists are dishonest"

Now there's plenty more ways I can prove you wrong in this thread, that just happens to be the only one that pertains to what you learned in a classroom and are so sure about.

I'll ignore the classroom dig, seeing as how I'm eager to hear you definitively prove that all political journalists are lying swine.

Otherwise we could talk about that whole senator mccain thing you know alot of journalists were kissing some ass in that time period. and hell how about the IRAQ war shouldn't there have been millions of newspapers everywhere saying, "HEY GUYS LOOK IRAQ AND OSAMA BIN LADIN HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EACHOTHER" every single newspaper should've said that because it's the objective truth. Were they all? so please quit giving me this JOURNALISTS ARE PURE AND PERFECT AND THEY TRY THEIR HARDEST shit.

Oh, yeah. When journalists were writing stories about troop movements in Iraq, they definitely should have brought up the lack of evidence tying Al Qaeda to Iraq. Then they really would have been impartial.

So, your idea of impartiality basically boils down to journalists covering subjects the way you want them to.

Originally Posted by kahljorn

Clark Kent was a reporter mr. lack of humor.

Which is irrelevant to your trying to convince me that you weren't angry.

Originally Posted by kahljorn

Actually if you read what I said carefully you'll note I said MOSTLY local newspapers. Learn semantics, fuckhead.

Right. So what else are you basing these knowledable opinions on?

"Completely calm and collected. Also completely insane and nonsensical. "

More jokes because I didn't want to respond to your lame shit. Duh?[/quote]

I love this. "The reason my response was barely comprehensible is because I didn't want to respond to your lame shit". Brilliant.

I really don't need to keep trying anymore.