Comments on: Study Attacks Newspapers http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/04/19/study-attacks-newspapers/ Men's Rights Activism, MRA Politics, Analysis, Commentary and Global News Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:12:59 -1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: college activist http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/04/19/study-attacks-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-61653 college activist Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:58:40 +0000 http://mensnewsdaily.com/?p=79513#comment-61653 With the advent of the internet, mainstream media is gonna have to start getting their act together, or risk obscurity. With the advent of the internet, mainstream media is gonna have to start getting their act together, or risk obscurity.

]]> By: anti armchair generals http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/04/19/study-attacks-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-61649 anti armchair generals Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:36:30 +0000 http://mensnewsdaily.com/?p=79513#comment-61649 Example from "News and the Culture of Lying" "Weaver's claim is that journalists and public officials combine to fabricate artificial crises of public policy that end up being "covered in the media, reacted to by the public, and dealt with by government" as if they were real. In short: officials tell lies by inflating the urgency of things, and journalists compound the fraud by passing them along in supposedly objective--but inherently uncritical--ways. The result, he argues, is both bad government and a journalism that is "stupid and dysfunctional," practiced by reporters who are little more than "dependent, submissive, narcissistic courtiers" to the officials they cover." Example from “News and the Culture of Lying”

“Weaver’s claim is that journalists and public officials combine to fabricate artificial crises of public policy that end up being “covered in the media, reacted to by the public, and dealt with by government” as if they were real. In short: officials tell lies by inflating the urgency of things, and journalists compound the fraud by passing them along in supposedly objective–but inherently uncritical–ways.

The result, he argues, is both bad government and a journalism that is “stupid and dysfunctional,” practiced by reporters who are little more than “dependent, submissive, narcissistic courtiers” to the officials they cover.”

]]> By: anti armchair generals http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/04/19/study-attacks-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-61648 anti armchair generals Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:33:04 +0000 http://mensnewsdaily.com/?p=79513#comment-61648 Alan Korwin, Sorry if I'm repeating my previous post about Paul Weaver's book "News and the Culture of Lying (Columbia Journalism review). I also agree with "The Uninvited Ombudsman" comments in your column. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_199411/ai_n8731174 Alan Korwin,
Sorry if I’m repeating my previous post about Paul Weaver’s book “News and the Culture of Lying (Columbia Journalism review). I also agree with “The Uninvited Ombudsman” comments in your column.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_199411/ai_n8731174

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