You’re too Young to Understand the Truth about Journalism

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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!(You can Google Clark Kent if you are too young to know this man! LOL!)

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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