Are newspaper reporting standards slipping?
Your’re right – but the standards have been corrupted by commercialism not just in story sensationalism, but in many other ways. Reports as advertisements (infomercials), reports written by reporters who are paid by government agencies, reports encouraged, delayed or toned down by request or demand of government officials, reports that deliberately include false and misleading information, reports that ignore obvious rebuttals, refute obviously misleading information, reports that inject faith-based, emotion-rousing sentiment which insult the intelligence and common sense of the reader, reports that are made to appear equal in comparison to much more important, logically cohesive, fact-based, and competently written reports to the contrary… ———– The list is long, and you should be aware that both the US armed services and the CIA have long had a strong influence in what and how your read your news and therefore much is slanted unfairly towards their p.o.v. If you’ve kept up wi
