“TV and newspapers . . . leave out too many things, which in my opinion is the same thing as lying. . . . I became so opposed to the Atlanta Journal that I wouldn’t even wrap a carp in it and scratch the carp.”
Editor’s Note: Try wrapping a carp in Fox News...Today’s Wish-I-Were-Here Photo: Morning Coast
I don't know where you found this, but it is awesome! Fox news is a blemish on the name of journalists everywhere. I frequently ask my friends how long we will allow ourselves to hear half truths and continue to consume them. It is no wonder that any store you go to, you head to the check-out and encounter at least five to ten magazines with blatant lies written on the cover. And we still buy them, read them, and leave them at medical offices to be devoured by someone else.
ReplyDeleteFOLKENFLIK: Spoken by a guy who takes his fish pretty seriously.
ReplyDeleteMr. HUNT: Yeah, very seriously.
If I were still a weekly editor in Roosevelt...I suspect I'd either have to shoot myself (everybody there has at least one gun, I'm sure I could go next door and ask for a cup of Glock) or move to San Francisco to get relief from these IDIOTS who watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh. Ted, why have American IQ's suddenly dropped off their kitchen tables only to be eaten by their Pit Bulls in a fit of neo-fascist insanity?
Your increasingly frightened friend,
Ross
The media is becoming more fictional then truthful. Sometimes the truth can be boring but when you tell 1 lie, then you tell another, then another. Pretty soon gossip is the headline news then a natural disaster or an epidemic. What Ronnie Hunt said was dead on about the news/TV and we're going to get lied to even more as the mass media grows and becomes more technologically advanced. -Romina Nedakovic
ReplyDeleteInteresting perspective, Romina. But on what do you base that? And when you say "media," do you mean established news organs (like the Atlanta Journal & Constitution or the NYTimes...and how often do you read them?), or do you mean TV or Internet or what?
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the major challenges that both the news media and our national conversation face: General distrust of the traditional news media by people who may not actually spend much time reading or viewing the news, but have a general "feeling" that the news media aren't trustworthy. This is a spiraling self-fulfilling prophecy.