The MSM has had a free reign to selectively report and skew news to fit their agenda for decades now. Finally there's an instrument to monitor them, bloggers. The media, of course, doesn't like this because they've enjoyed relative immunity from scrutiny for years. Sucks to be them. I hope bloggers continue to take the media to task, and if necessary, end careers, until the media shapes up and starts doing its job more responsibly.
Media personalities as well as journalists of all levels could not possibly be considered trophies. These ladies and gentlemen are people who have chosen a profession and are getting paid many times very handsomely for their services.
As with any profession there are risks. And with the advent of the new media of the internet, now there are checks and balances that have not been formerly in place.
Despite the reality that everyone is accountable for their actions and words, many people live their lives as if it were not so. Including some of those who earn a living via the MSM (mainstream media).
Bloggers nor the MSM have a monopoly on truth. However, the truth always has a way of coming to the surface and being known. If the use of blogs is bringing the consequences of a person's poor judgement or ammorality upon them in a hastier manner, then so be it.
There has to be some consequence to spreading a false news story by highly placed people in the media. If the only consequence for a false story is a retraction, then the perpetrator of the falsity has not paid for his "error" or "malicious lies" (you choose which).
Termination of employment is the least one would expect of a news organization for its employees spreading falsehoods as news. That there are no sanctions for the organizations themselves is problematic. There should be some sanction to CNN itself (in the cited incident) for its harboring someone who spread lies as news. Exactly how to do that, I don't know.
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As with any profession there are risks. And with the advent of the new media of the internet, now there are checks and balances that have not been formerly in place.
Despite the reality that everyone is accountable for their actions and words, many people live their lives as if it were not so. Including some of those who earn a living via the MSM (mainstream media).
Bloggers nor the MSM have a monopoly on truth. However, the truth always has a way of coming to the surface and being known. If the use of blogs is bringing the consequences of a person's poor judgement or ammorality upon them in a hastier manner, then so be it.
There has to be some consequence to spreading a false news story by highly placed people in the media. If the only consequence for a false story is a retraction, then the perpetrator of the falsity has not paid for his "error" or "malicious lies" (you choose which).
Termination of employment is the least one would expect of a news organization for its employees spreading falsehoods as news. That there are no sanctions for the organizations themselves is problematic. There should be some sanction to CNN itself (in the cited incident) for its harboring someone who spread lies as news. Exactly how to do that, I don't know.
JMHO.