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Comments on: Total Waste Of Time https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/01/14/total-waste-of-time/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:35:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/01/14/total-waste-of-time/comment-page-1/#comment-42196 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:35:21 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=7378#comment-42196 It almost makes one nostalgic for the “good old days” of Hearst and Pulitzer when newspapers wrote copy and then made it happen.

Who can forget Hearst’s immortal telegram “You supply the pictures. I’ll supply the war.” sent to the artist dispatched to Havana just before the Spanish-American War was started.

]]> By: Badux https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/01/14/total-waste-of-time/comment-page-1/#comment-42193 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:18:15 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=7378#comment-42193 But that is what he was taught to do in journalism school. His job, he was taught, is to interview people and report accurately what they said. His job is not to analyze what he is told, that would be analysis, not reporting, and thus Not His Job.

In short, his job is to be a transcriptionist, not a seeker of truth. And he — and the journalism profession in general — is just fine with that. After all, if he were a seeker of truth, then, like, some advertiser might get upset. Can’t have that, can you?

– Badtux the Cynical Penguin

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