January 21, 2005

Balanced Reporting

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but I wish our press had a little more appreciation for their counterpart -- or at least did their jobs honestly. The fact that such a great piece as the article below is relegated to minor sites (I mean, c'mon, he's IN the center of it all, not coverig his story borders on cencorship) really points to the media's fascination with bad news and that no one likes to read about all the cats that didn't get stuck in the tree today.

Or maybe it's just that being a journalism major is only interesteing to those with a liberal bent or something. Maybe they all realized that no one in the media who was pro-vietnam (the first time a war could really be covered) made any money in journalism in the 60's and the industry reflexively maintains that stance today. I dunno, but it is just crazy the way our press handles this war.

Some balanced reporting would be nice, I wonder why no one gets to read this: Balanced Reporting

Posted by rick at January 21, 2005 01:37 PM