here's
three
lists
with dozens of examples why.
(...and they have the nerve to complain that their ratings are down.)
Randall Hoven concludes:
- These offenses have been going on for years, long before the internet. But there does seems to be a rise in the number of reported offenses in recent years. Did the number of offenses go up, or did the fraction of discovered offenses go up?
- In a good number of these cases, the errors were caught by non-journalists, sometimes communicating over the internet.
- The Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize just ain't all they're cracked up to be.
- If this is the visible part of the iceberg, just how big is the iceberg?
3 comments:
Hatless, I read each element of those lists, except the Wiki one. Even sadder, I remember the majority of them when they happened, and the disregard each received at the time, or nearly such.
Each instance should've prevented the guilty from ever practicing journalism again. But it is a fault-less world these days, in politically slanted,driven news nowadays.
One disturbing instance which I didn't see listed herein, but have begun as a draft bloggie myself is this:
'Journalist as Fear Monger'. On the site WorldNetDaily, commentator Jerome Corsi enstilss the fears of a United Nations usurption of U.S. law, if a bird flu pandemic occurs. If I may, here is the link: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57369
While this cockroach screams that the sky is falling, the U.N. is coming, he cites two TELLING documents within this story, NEITHER OF WHICH PLACE THE UNITED STATES under "U.N. law", in any way! I read them both, in total, and never never saw such a claim made by Bush, Calderon, or whatzizname of Canada.
Read this article by this total hack, can you?
Are you scared? Me, I'm outraged!
I nearly forgot:
Welcome back Hatless!
Your insight was truly indeed missed.
and big insidious iceberg...
Man, I though I wouldn't have to deal with linked lists anymore after CS 122. :'(
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