tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298390238593495215.post6594408662118907970..comments2023-10-20T03:30:53.003-06:00Comments on Today's WORD on Journalism: Not-so-SupermanTed Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17393220507793680242noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298390238593495215.post-5581426936167005062010-10-29T14:41:37.169-06:002010-10-29T14:41:37.169-06:00Too few journalists have the accounting knowledge ...Too few journalists have the accounting knowledge necessary to process, much less accurately report, financial information about any governmental program. I have read articles written by journalists who did not know the difference between budgets, balance sheets, and income-expenditure statements -- and used figures interchangeably. I have read articles by journalists who had not taken the time to read through the procedures manuals governing bids, contracts, and other steps in the procurement process -- and it shows up in generalizations, innuendo, and faulty logic. Nor do most news organizations want to dig into what happens after a policy is approved -- how does that policy get implemented? You'd be surprised . . . .Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16437664516123030421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2298390238593495215.post-13937994039110820692010-10-29T09:07:29.702-06:002010-10-29T09:07:29.702-06:00Hi Ted,
I haven't seen the movie and I'm ...Hi Ted,<br />I haven't seen the movie and I'm not all that interested in seeing it. All politics are local, and so is education, as far as I can see. My hobby horse is writing instruction because I think it encompasses so much, particularly critical thinking...and the quality of writing instruction in my children's public school has been abysmal. I did walk in and offer to help....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com