From the guardian.co.uk comes this:
MSNBC suspends journalist over Barack Obama insult
US cable news channel takes action after Mark Halperin calls US president ‘kind of a dick’
Poll: Was MSNBC right to suspend Halperin[...]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/30/barack-obama-dick-insult
So the “prose” of the “potty-mouthed” continues to contaminate America’s CURRENT EVENTS news pool. And the list of potty-mouths is now extended to journalists?
So, what is journalism and where do you go to find examples of journalism?
“Media Matters FOR AMERICA” published this ERIC BOEHLERT article in October of 2006:
Here’s how dishonest Beltway journalism has become
Books about politics and the press don’t come much more dishonest, or depressing, than the new tome hitting stores this week, The Way to Win (Random House). Written by corporate media bigwigs Mark Halperin, political director of ABC News and founder of its political newsletter The Note, and John F. Harris, national political editor of The Washington Post, the new digest — it’s their take on how to win the White House — is already being toasted by celebrity journalists inside the Beltway, which in today’s environment means the book politely re-enforces preferred conventional wisdom and graciously avoids asking tough questions about Republicans. The press corps also skates by in the eyes of Halperin and Harris, who continuously rewrite recent history in order to ensure that journalists shoulder little or no blame for D.C. pressroom disgraces such as Whitewater, the blatantly dishonest coverage heaped upon Al Gore’s presidential campaign, and for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth hoax that ensnared Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential run.[...]
Has the behavior of journalists been “de-regulated”? Was that behavior ever regulated? What does “freedom of the press” mean to journalists?
The above type poll question should be asked of other offending behaviors:
1. penis slicing
2. waterboarding
3. selling cocaine
4. outing a CIA agent
[ The above poll question tests how low America can go.]
Tags: behavior of journalists, de-regulated, freedom of the press, journalism, journalist, mark halperin, potty mouth
