CNN video - one more time

[Tim]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:30 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote:
> Can't say as I've ever, EVER seen a more incompetent interviewer in my
> life. What the hell has happened to the profession of journalism? 

It went down the toilet with the rest of radio and television.  I can't
say that I've seen the story you mentioned, but I've seen plenty of crap
journalism.  It really gets me is when you see a reporter interviewing
someone like a politician who is doing something outrageous, and the
reporter never even asks the "why?" question.  We even had one of our
journos get caught out making up a story, and their response to being
caught out was, "It doesn't really matter if it's not true, as long as
it's interesting enough."

Journalist - one who's told some unsubstantiated information, accepts it
as fact, and invents a story to go along with it.  Relies heavily on a
cliche handbook.

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