Question: What’s the only thing more pathetic than an occupational journalist (journalism is not a true profession, therefore there is no such thing as a “professional journalist”) who calls for …

Claiming there is too much unfettered speech by “citizen journalists”, one journalism professor and former MSM reporter insists that the time has come to impose some fetters. Having just anyone produce widely distributed stories without control can h…

Molon labe, dumbass.

It’s just a matter of time before something like a faked Rodney King beating video appears on the air somewhere.

Well… it already has. It was called a fake memo, and it was presented NOT by a citizen journalist, but by Dan Rather, a member of the so-called ‘professional’ jouralist class.

Go fact-check yourself, indeed!

With all due respect, professor, go f

act

-check yourself.

There. I like that better. Elitist jagoff.

The news industry should find some way to monitor and regulate this new trend.

In the real world this is called fascism.

Your principal principle should be that youse spel more gooder than the stoopid bloggers.

the PhD media guy implies that bloggers lack “ethical principals”

Doesn’t he really mean they lack “ethical principles”? I usually
get these mixed up, but then again, I don’t have a PhD in Journalism.
So please correct me if I’m wrong.

But if I’m right, someone should really hammer this guy over the
mistake (if it is a mistake), and if I am correct, does that mean I get to be a newspaper editor?

I must be wrong. The layers and layers of editors in the “Real Media” would never allow such a simple mistake. Would I were correct, though, because the irony would have been simply wonderful.

Think they would print a correction? (and what would it read?)

“All corrections and/or retractions will be placed in the exact same place, with the exact same prominence, in the exact same size font of the headline in which the erroneous information was originally published.”

Then I might consider calling journalism a profession worthy of exclusivity.

The difference usually is when a blogger does wrong, he gets found out, shamed, mocked and ostracized.

And usually within a few hours.

On the other hand, when the so-called mainstream media gets it wrong, a correction (if any) doesn’t get published for days, long after the interest in the story is passed – or it’s become viral in it’s erroneous form – and that correction is printed in small type at the bottom of page D-20.

The so-called “mainstream media” has no credibility anymore; they know it, and they are trying both to cover up their abject failure and to prevent anyone else from disclosing their shortcomings.

The worse possible thing that could happen, and is highly unlikely, would be a practice of running endless articles on someone like Huckabee. Impossible.

David Hazinski, a former NBC correspondent and associate professor of telecommunications and head of broadcast news at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism, has a bone to pick: he believes “citizen journalism” is dangerous. We mus…

If you ask the questions, get some answers, write them down and publish them, TA DA. You are in fact, a journalist.

As a college professor with an earned Ph.D., I have news for Mr. Hazinski: Journalism majors (and Education majors) are the stupidest, laziest students I have. They are completely uninterested in learning the rules of grammar, spelling, and punctuation that they should have learned in elementary school. They do not want to have to write, much less do research. They simply want to have their faces grace our television sets, be famous, and make big money.

In other words, Mr. Hazinski, Kierkegaard was right: Journalism is not a profession, but a mission; however, Kierkegaard, who is also said something to the effect that he could forgive a daughter who sank into prostitution, but a son who became a journalist would be disowned on the spot, could not have known precisely how low the mission of journalism has sunk. Low enough, it appears, to have a former correspondent cum college professor proposing that pesky First Amendment should only protect members of his “profession.” Anyone read Animal Farm lately?