Jay Rosen uses an offline essay by Walter Pincus to argue that the media should be more transparent about its politics.  That Rosen holds up the hypocritical Josh Marshall as a model of integrity, or holds up Keith Olbermann as “another” example (there may be some intentional ambiguity by Rosen on this point) — while ignoring counter-examples to be found on the Fox News Channel or the Excellence in Broadcasting network — is annoying. Nevertheless, urging journalists to admit that they are participants in the public square is a healthy notion, so RTWT.
Search
Archive Calendar
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |
Archives
Categories
- A Government That Can Force You to Buy Health Insurance Can Make You Do Anything (3)
- a protein wisdom philosophy primer (3)
- academics (25)
- armadillo (8)
- Friday Fiction 100 Word Challenge (51)
- from the protein wisdom conceptual series (136)
- identity politics (33)
- If Republicans Win the Senate in 2014 (1)
- in which celebraties comment on current events (67)
- language / intentionalism (88)
- legal (6)
- My brief conversations with inanimate objects (130)
- NSA / FISA (46)
- One Term to Serve, the 2012 Revival (6)
- Overheard in a Fallujah bunker (27)
- Poems from 196x, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brauti (27)
- protein wisdom's DNC coverage (30)
- protein wisdom's RNC coverage (29)
- protein wisdom: the movie Lists (20)
- Provocateurism (16)
- real-time empirical observations (51)
- red pills found behind the sofa cushions (42)
- Scenes from my driveway (61)
- Talking back to 80s music (41)
- The Martha Stewart Chronicles (58)
- The protein wisdom interviews (10)
- The protein wisdom original poems (142)
- Uncategorized (20,046)
- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, abridged (34)
Recent Comments
- In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain on Hey, longtime pw readers…
- In The Mailbox: 12.23.22 : The Other McCain on Patrick J. Carroll truly IS a sad, embittered psychopath
- Danger on Patrick J. Carroll might be a psychopath
- Danger on Patrick J. Carroll might be a psychopath
- In The Mailbox: 07.18.22 : The Other McCain on Patrick J. Carroll might be a psychopath
Karl – I agree. Look: it takes folks a good while (and work) to arrive at a place where they not only a) realize slant when they read/hear/see it, but know how to b) recalubrate the “news piece” to ignore that which is tripe and identify any worthwhile kernel of though (if they be fortunate to find one). The problem is just this: it takes time to recognize the nuanced themes, the “story line”, the script, the bent of the “source”… and it takes a disciplined mind to absorb the shit day after day without being warped too badly. It’s the in-between where the prob becomes a real problem… when people are less-than sophisticated in terms of their and/or don’t give a shit… wherein a lot of damage is done.
their News Consumption
One of the reasons I read Italian news sources whenever I have the chance. They don’t pretend to objectivity. They relish confrontation.
Not that I’d like our government to be like Italy’s, mind you.
I like the British tabloids for the same reason. Plus, I really enjoy the interviews with the Page 3 girls.
Enoch, those are very good points. I don’t even get upset about liberal news media bias anymore; I just mentally acknowledge it, and adjust for it or go elsewhere for information. I just wonder how the libs feel, knowing that they, the keepers of the freest press in the world, are being parsed, analyzed, read back-to-front and between the lines, no different from the way Sovietologists used to read Tass and Pravda.
Partisans, bloggers and media critics are toxically obsessed with ferreting out reporters’ preferences
…
maybe we should view their criticism as a help, not an annoyance
…
Let the audience help, by critiquing, analyzing and hectoring
~ James Poniewoznik ~
That’s toxically obsessed, annoying and hectoring, for those of you keeping score at home.
[…] is Rosen’s citation of Protean Wisdom being critical of his post: Jay Rosen uses an offline essay by Walter Pincus to argue that the […]
This girl is a magnet for trouble, as one of her friends points out. After losing his strip club in a poker game, Sierra Lavotini’s boss soon finds
virtuagirl.byethost12.com