[mdlug] Is MS bribing bloggers?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Michael Corral wrote:
> 2006-12-29, Monsieur allen a ecrit:
>> Look at the bright side. Since this is a classic problem all journalists
>> face it makes it more difficult to dismiss the claim to the status of
>> journalist, by bloggers.
> 
> That argument is not logical. Politicians face the same ethics issues.
> Does that make them journalists?
> 
> Bloggers are just people who feel like saying something, and they put
> whatever it is they want to say on the web. That doesn't make them
> journalists. There's a craft and a whole host of skills involved with
> journalism (e.g. investigative techniques, reporting skills), and
> practices that professional journalists have to abide by (e.g. peer
> and editorial review), that bloggers don't have to deal with.

The state of "journalism" these days is even WORSE than the
"yellow-journalism" days of yore.

How many stories have they been caught fabricating recently,
and we're talking NATIONAL news organizations, just because
the story "fit the larger picture" that they are trying to
indoctrinate the public with.

We were much better off when journalists were people who had
actual real life experience in real jobs FIRST, instead of the
collection of propagandists who distort everything they report
so that there is only one "reasonable" conclusion....the one
that THEY want you to make.

If you're not understanding this, then go watch the movie "The Matrix"
until you really do understand the point of the movie...