When Did It All Change?

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm reading David Halberstam's THE POWERS THAT BE. Its a dissection of Mainstream Media since the 1920s.

In the 30s CBS NEWS' mission statement made it clear that the function of its journalists was to expose, clarify, and report news. Judgments and opinions about the news was the business of the audience. Journalists were to avoid taking sides.

Edward R.Murrow (his real name is Egbert) changed the policy, suggesting that bias is appropriate when the contestants are Jesus and Judas Iscariot.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

When Woodward and Berstein's editors allowed fake grand jury testimony be reported as fact.



They liked the feeling of making and breaking people.



The documents might have been forged, but daggonit, they just "knew" the story was true...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

When Woodward and Berstein's editors allowed fake grand jury testimony be reported as fact.



They liked the feeling of making and breaking people.



The documents might have been forged, but daggonit, they just "knew" the story was true...

Jesus vs Judas again.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

When they started going to Journalism school to "change the world."

 

[TonyClifton]

Forty years ago...

Today

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

When they started going to Journalism school to "change the world."

Journalism school is a recent invention. Murrow majored in theater/drama.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It is all part of the Education bubble...

 

[kbate]

When TV news programmes began competing for ratings and airing commercials with rates based on their ratings, their output changed from 'news' to 'sensation'.

Watch our News, featuring 'guy with perfect hair and pretty woman with partially exposed breasts', and stay tuned for our idiotic sitcom lineup following. . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Oh come on :kbate:, we both love staring at those breasts...



You should see our weather girls! I never know what the weather is going to be, but I never miss the segment!

 

[kbate]

Oh come on :kbate:, we both love staring at those breasts...

You should see our weather girls! I never know what the weather is going to be, but I never miss the segment!

I get news on my phone and weather is a one touch app. No need for 'airheaded blonde with a bluescreen' and 'big chin with good hair at eleven'.

Plus both are free apps, no adverts and no 'stay tuned for weather boobs'.

Have your fun and support those advertisers.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It is all part of the Education bubble...

No. Murrow legitimatized casting the players as Jesus and Judas, and usurpting the role of the audience to decide. From Murrow on the anchors lable the players.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I get news on my phone and weather is a one touch app. No need for 'airheaded blonde with a bluescreen' and 'big chin with good hair at eleven'.

Plus both are free apps, no adverts and no 'stay tuned for weather boobs'.

Have your fun and support those advertisers.

I post during everything but the babes; the wife "watches" her news; I'm just a potted plant.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No. Murrow legitimatized casting the players as Jesus and Judas, and usurpting the role of the audience to decide. From Murrow on the anchors lable the players.

You are conflating posts.

I was only referring to J-school...



Now, give us some dirty laundry.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

You are conflating posts.

I was only referring to J-school...



Now, give us some dirty laundry.

I react to what you write. When you post SHIT, 'shit' has multiple meanings. So get your SHIT straight, Gump.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

sounds interesting..