This next article I found was interesting only in one spot. It is an article about a UK newspaper named Evening Standard. Apparently the Newspaper took on too negative a tone in talking about a mayor who was eventually run out of office. The thing I found ironic is a paragraph about halfway down. Media World: Why the U.K.'s Evening Standard is sorry
It says and I quote: "If you take away the politics, the rest of the newspaper is pretty good," Greenslade told the Daily Finance.What may have prompted the Evening Standard to "apologize" was its role in driving London's controversial mayor Ken Livingston from office. U.S. readers should note that the tradition of journalists being objective is an American phenomena, and a fairly recent one at that. Papers in the U.K. and in other parts of the world take on avowedly partisan tones.
Apparently the author has never watched or read anything news related from America. American journalism is so biased as to be ridiculous. The media has no morals or scruples. There is no code of ethics to be followed. Political candidates live or die by the media. The article says that if you take away the politics the rest of the newspaper is pretty good. This newspaper must offer more information than the papers in the US do. I just found it hilarious that the author thought that US news was objective and non-partisan. It's completely laughable. If US media isn't making judgements, or putting their spin on news, or making or breaking someones career, then the only thing left that they do is report sports scores.
The article might as well say my blog isn't sarcastic or biased. It would be just as true as saying that American journalists are objective.
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One of the reasons for the media feeding frenzy (as my brother who works in newspapers will tell you) is the twenty four hour news cycle that causes the different channels to have to invent news and blow minor news out of proportion to obtain and retain viewership.
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