Free To Decide (Based On Skewed Information)
Tim Rutten wrenches his shoulder while patting the deadtree media on the back.
It starts out about the NSA "scandal":
There are several indications that many — perhaps a majority of people — are unbothered by the White House's recourse to these measures in the unavoidable conflict with terrorists. That's beside the point, which is that — to a degree unknown in previous conflicts — people have been given the opportunity to decide whether or not they are troubled, which is precisely the function of a free press.
Which would be true, if the media - especially at the editorial level - presented either the unvarnished facts
or admitted the biases that drove the choices it made in presenting the story.
Without either of those, you're getting no basis for "choice" - just propaganda.
Rutten descends into bathos:
It is worth considering, moreover, that only newspapers have the will, resources and venues in which this sort of journalism can be accomplished on readers' behalf. To an extent too little discussed, the future of the news media is the future of American democracy.
No.
The future of our current, mainstream media is that of just another institution.
Rutten believes that the current institution of the mainstream media - the set of printing presses and transmitters and satellites that have been the status quo for the past fifty years - are the only bulwark between democracy and fascism; that if the mainstream media were to disappear and leave a vaccuum, nothing would fill it.
Which is, er, "Fake but accurate"...
http://www.savagerepublican.com/2006/05/imperial-hubris.php
(Via Savage Republican)
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I'm still pissed about FDR opening private mail. I bet they had a list of everyone's addresses too.
Posted by: Kermit at May 15, 2006 08:40 AMI thought of something this morning, and had not had the opportunity to update the post....
I wonder if Ruttan does this because he knows that it will get his name mentioned.
Posted by: The Lady Logician at May 15, 2006 10:03 AMHoly Hannah! I just lost a half-hour of brilliant comment 'cos Mitch's PC service didn't want me to say something "unacceptable." Spent another half-hour trying to creatively say the same thing to "fool" the Right Reverend Bowlder.
"Censorship in the media is not only an immoral and unjust practice, but also an insult to all people who consider them selves able to think and act intelligently on their own. Every day censors everywhere try to bowlderize radio, print, the Internet and all other forms of media, especially televisiomn. People who stand for this are allowing their rights to be denied, laying supine, letting governments control them and limit their thoughts. 2The denotative meaning of censorship is the examination of books, letters, movies, etc. and the removal of anything thought not right for the people to observe. In other words, censorship ...." I shall try to reconstruct the pearl I snarfed up on my very own, un-expurgated "alternative" blog, http:/www/wogsblog.com
Cheers!
Posted by: wog at May 15, 2006 10:06 AM"That's beside the point, which is that — to a degree unknown in previous conflicts — people have been given the opportunity to decide whether or not they are troubled, which is precisely the function of a free press."
If that's true why don't they give away newspapers for free? Their function isn't to make money for their investors. Ditto network and radio news. Get rid of the advertisements. The eight minutes or so of commercial breaks in a half hour news show would be better used for more reporting, wouldn't they?
Posted by: Terry at May 15, 2006 12:32 PMJournalism is not a profession in the truest meaning of the word. You have to pass no examinations to be a journalist, you have no governing board that awards or withdraws credentials. It is a craft, not a calling.
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