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John King: "I believe in steering conversations, not shaping them"
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Group therapy-type journalism
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Tom Traubert
11/20/2009 11:29:19 PM
is responsible for the absurdly misinformed news audience who believes -- 52% of Republicans and 27% of all Americans -- that ACORN "stole" the e...
is responsible for the absurdly misinformed news audience who believes -- 52% of Republicans and 27% of all Americans -- that ACORN "stole" the election for Obama, as revealed in a new poll by Public Policy Polling. Yes, these deluded news consumers believe that ACORN stole more than 9 million votes, without a shred of evidence anywhere. At one time, more than 65% of Americans believed that Saddam was responsible for 911.
Now, we know that Fox is a propaganda channel, but so-called journalists like John King, whose "I'm OK You're OK" type pseudo-journalism has completely failed to inform his news-consuming audience. Instead of reporting facts, John King hosts the most blatant liars on the national scene, allowing them all the time they wish to lie, distort and misinform. Then it's all "We'll just leave it there."
They utterly fail to prepare for interviews, opting instead for the he said/she said split-screen shoutfest, which does nothing to inform or illuminate their viewing audience. They are lazy, uninformed, and incompetent at their jobs, their only qualification, apparently , is having good hair.
"Steering conversations, not shaping them" is just preposterous for someone claiming to be a journalist. I mean, think for a moment about how silly that is. How about actually reporting facts with the goal of informing one's audience. Isn't that the job of a journalist?
Not just King ...
Posted by
Alex Dering
11/20/2009 12:33:59 PM
Other -- many other -- media personalities who are described and self-described as journalists allow the subjects of pieces to "baldly lie, disto...
Other -- many other -- media personalities who are described and self-described as journalists allow the subjects of pieces to "baldly lie, distort, and exaggerate" to the audience.
I've mentioned some examples in the past, and have been nearly deafened by the sound of all the crickets. If John King does allow lying, distortion and exaggeration, he's merely doing what a significant number of others are doing in an industry that seems to willfully ignore hard criticism of questionable subject material.
What is King? A group therapist
Posted by
Tom Traubert
11/20/2009 12:13:25 PM
or a journalist? Mr. John King doesn't seem to see any necessity in "steering" the conversation towrads illuminating the truth. Instead, he allo...
or a journalist? Mr. John King doesn't seem to see any necessity in "steering" the conversation towrads illuminating the truth. Instead, he allows fabulists like John Kyl to baldly lie, distort, and exaggerate to Mr. John King's audience, and then Mr. John King just "leaves it there." Please see Jon Stewart's embarrassing documentation of Mr. John King's lazy, feckless journalism and anchor incompetence in the classic "CNN - Just leave it there" viral video.
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