You’re too Young to Understand the Truth about Journalism
Ben Vitale
At one time Mainstream newspapers hired many reporters to
write articles for the printed media. During the 50s, only the elite went to
college! The journalists were cast into a molded with an ingredient that was as
strong as bronze, but unfortunately that ingredient no longer exists! That
secret ingredient is called complete and unbiased reporting!
In the 50s, you could put your Bible and the daily newspaper
on the same shelf at night! Yes! The printed newspaper didn’t lie! It never
lied! The mainstream media did not lie! Most of you are too young to have
experienced that! Misrepresenting news on page one, was a transgression that
would motivate the general public, to “Tar and feather a reporter! LOL! The editorial
and OP-ED section of the printed media gave some latitude for consideration of
opinion.
Ok! If you haven’t realized it by now … All jobs change with
time! Yes that’s true! For example: My area of expertise silently changed
without warning! I woke up one morning and the Transistor was the “big thing!”
I can to this day hear the words of a traditional Electronics Engineer proclaim
to everyone in the coffee room…”You can’t do anything with your Transistors
that I can’t do with a Relay! (A relay is a mechanical switch operated via an
electronic coil!) Three months thereafter… Unemployed!
Slowly and silently, the nature of journalism changed into
something that we can no longer be proud of! In the early 50s, only a few
people qualified to be a journalist! The affluent went to college and the rest
did the best that they could to survive! As the years progressed more and more
people went to college! Everyone who attended college had to be reasonably
competent in writing. So… Journalism is
no longer only for the affluent!
Most people do not want to realize that what they learned in
college, must be tweaked and upgraded, periodically! Will Rogers said the “Even
if you’re on the right track, you still will get run over if you are not moving
forward!” LOL! Slowly and silently a 9.9 journalistic seismic event
materialized; the internet complete with internet web sites! Some journalists
began to publish and write for Web sites! There was some money there! A
journalistic aftershock of 9.5 arrived shortly thereafter! Blogs and bloggers
were suddenly everywhere! Some content soon became available for free! Yes… No
money required!
The war intensifies! Journalists that worked for the
mainstream media soon lost their jobs! So what is a poor displaced Journalist
to do! LOL! Yesss! Open your own newspaper! I have seen displaced Journalists
move from obscurity to stardom in as little as six weeks! How did they do that?
They did that by only publishing what the readers want to read, as opposed to
filling vacant lines with random content. For example… If you know of any women
who would not read a new recipe for Apple Pie, that women is probably dead!
LOL! To this day some journalists do not understand that! LOL!
Today the mainstream media is totally out of control... They
no longer report the news but instead fabricate it! It is obvious that this
action is backfiring, big time! I no longer sympathize with political
correctness... I now detest it! Oh yes... I also detest the mainstream media! I
refuse to believe anything that I read or hear on mainstream media TV stations.
I see a bend in the road for the media! Believe me… my
friends and I are literally cursing at the media! Yep! I am no longer
Politically correct! The media sucks! Now I feel better! LOL! The Goose that laid the golden eggs will fly
to that part of the media that flaunts fair and balanced reporting, and
discourages a conviction and execution of a person on the basis of a Two second
video clip, without using the services of a judge and jury!
We desperately need Clark Kent, mild mannered reporter from
the Daily Planet! LOL! But believe me… Clark Kent is indeed coming! LOL! Fair
and balanced reporting will attract the Goose that can lay Golden eggs! LOL!
Yesss!
What part of the Mainstream media will be smart enough to
acknowledge that there is a major opinion leak in the bilge of their particular Boat of
journalism? Failure to acknowledge the problem will result in the ship sinking!
*This article is also published at: http://patch.com/new-york/patchogue/you-re-too-young-understand-truth-journalism
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