Where have you seen any "technical perfection" recently? I look in
the local (Baltimore) newspaper and I see an obvious lack of even that.
Frequent words misspelled, or even worse misused. Lack of continuity
and contradictory statements prevail. But, worst of all, the prevailing
trend that the reporter's opinions constitute the news. The reporters
function is to garner the facts and present them in a palatable manner
without tainting those facts with opinion.
A great reporter should be like an Olympus camera, record the facts of
the scene without injecting undue tainting or coloration in the
process. (obligatory OM content)
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"W. J. Liles" wrote:
>
> Lex Jenkins wrote:
> .....snip.....
>
> > Personally I believe the last thing a journalist needs is a degree
> > in anything except history. Studying journalism for more than a semester or
> > two is like an artist majoring in paintbrushes.
> >
> > Lex
> >
>
> I couldn't agree more! There is too much "journalism" done to technical
> perfection that lacks any meaningful content or context simply because
> the "journalist" doesn't know history, or science, or art, or medicine,
> or etc. I think a major in Journalism is like a major in pre-med,
> useless and a waste of very valuable time!
>
> My two cents.
>
> Jerry Liles
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