Recovering from the journalism crisis: Reporters need to learn to apologize

[TBoneTX 49,425]

7 hours ago, Boiler said:

this is interesting but not surprising

I wonder who the "they" is that the superior is kowtowing to.

I also wonder whether the reporter will keep his job.

[Pooky 4,041]

21 hours ago, Boiler said:

Now this is interesting but not surprising 

 

 

 

14 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

I wonder who the "they" is that the superior is kowtowing to.

I also wonder whether the reporter will keep his job.

The most interesting part to me is that after deciding not to follow network instructions, he went on to provide a balanced take on the protests, not weighting his report to the pro- or anti- strikes side. This is what American news media has been missing.

 

If management had prevailed, the report would have slanted heavily toward the ant-strike protests, following the agenda. Instead, we got the news. We saw what was happening, not what some empty suit wanted us to see. There is hope yet.

[TBoneTX 49,425]

9 hours ago, Pooky said:

There is hope yet.

If the reporter got to keep his job for flouting management.

[TBoneTX 49,425]

This former Federal prosecutor is uniformly brilliant.
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How Meet the Press Harms Our Democracy

 

We should all be concerned about serious problems with our elections, the heart of our democracy.  But we can't fix problems that we refuse to face.

There was no better example of the head-in-the-sand attitude than what was recently demonstrated by Kristen Welker of NBC's prestigious Meet the Press, as she held forth with House Speaker Mike Johnson in February, regarding, among other topics, the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

In the wake of the Trump administration's FBI seizure of 2020 Georgia election records, Welker barked at Johnson that raising questions about the validity of the 2020 election is dangerous to our democracy.  [...]

 

https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/07/how-meet-the-press-harms-our-democracy/

 

[Boiler 48,778]

I wonder how they would now describe 911

 

 

[TBoneTX 49,425]

There Was a Jihad Bombing in New York City, and Here's How Mamdani and the Media Framed It

 

[...] Anyone reading that would get the impression that "white supremacist Jake Lang" or his followers were the ones who attempted to "use an explosive device and hurt others."  That would have been a reasonable assumption if one formed one's opinions solely on the basis of establishment media reporting about this incident.

In reality, while Mamdani doesn't name the perpetrators, the violence came from two Muslims who came to protest against Lang's group, and lobbed an IED at them while screaming "Allahu akbar."  None of the coverage, however, talks about Islamic jihad violence.  Instead, the establishment media, like Mamdani, works hard to give people an idea of this incident that was just the opposite of what really happened.

Your friend and mine, Kevin Downey Jr., tells me that "the local NYC radio news stations are framing the attack as a 'white supremacist' rally. The news station is 1010 WINS.  They are hitting the story every eight minutes or so."  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/03/08/there-was-a-jihad-bombing-in-new-york-city-and-heres-how-mamdani-and-the-media-framed-it-n4950412