In addition, in the 1300 Uhr breaking news below the image, I see the Deutsche Oper is gonna stage a couple Idomeneos by yearsend. Here's another front page brouhaha about little like this intended to keep the homefront jittery.
Objective, Pepe? Trumps everything including national survival?
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this is tabloidic - as such it has questionable value. But you do realize that you are bitching at the messenger. Keeping the perpetrator in line is the surest way to shut the the messenger up.
Those boys didn't do anything bad enough to lose a whole goddamned war over, man. A little bit of proportion is all I ask. What about the BBC, then? Are they tabloidic? They seem to be blowing up a NATO bavure into a major atrocity.
Let me go out on a limb: Everything has gone tabloidic. The NYT lies and gets away with it. The BBC and Lancet and Fox and NPR too.
Talk about the coarsening of discourse! The NYT thinks that the hopeful wet dream of the Democrats (the assassination of Bush) is not terribly out of line.
the nyt dissed the movie if you read the review.
there is also the dimension that media scrutiny is a very effective tool to prevent abuse. the times pic invariably publishes the names of all the johns suspected of cavorting with prostitutes: sure keeps me in line!
also who is to decide whether the stories are worthy of publication ? and how do you think abu ghraib, the raping of the 14 yo and the various instances of summary executions of civilians should be treated ?
Not in the frenzied manner in which they were treated. These are really pretty small stories in the scheme of things that matters. That is that if Moqtada takes over, everyone in Iraq will long for Abu Ghraib, so the media's stroking and stroking that really doesn't help anyone except Nancy Pelosi.
Prisoner abuse in an Arab jail. The horror!
Now that's pretty short-sighted, isn't it?
I think it is really besides the point - it isn't the responsibility of the media to asssess whether or not the disclosure will harm or benefit particular interests. One person dies from food poisoning - should the media report and run the risk of harming the meat plant ? How do you make the decision and where does it tip. I don't think you can easily find objective criteria to make that call.
The only litmus test here is whether or not the story is true - in other words, they report you decide.
Nope. Importance of a story is implied by its placement on the page or website and the bias with which it's reported.
I made the mistake of watching Wolf Blitzer last night; I'm on the rag, perhaps.
I have thought about your 'trump everything else' idea and have decided it makes no sense. We all should work toward some Good, to put it into an Aristotelian setting. If the journalist helps those who would shut down his very profession, he can't be working toward the good without paradox.
Here's the Deutsche Oper story in a civilized language.
i think you will also have a serious implementation problem coming up with objective guidelines as to what should be reported on which page.
Also, do you propose a mirror obligation to place positive news on the front page ?
I don't want legislation, man. That's more like you lefties. No, I simply think journos are indoctrinated lefties and have lost sight of what their job is. It is not to just find shit that's true and be adversarial to the government when it's on the right.
It's to be adversarial to the government when it's wrong. And that's not the same thing.
don't call it legislation, call it guidelines, then
no. responsibility.
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