tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270379.post111004572413558115..comments2024-01-27T20:13:38.669-08:00Comments on I could be wrong....: Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15686012908579078418noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270379.post-1110277713564431942005-03-08T02:28:00.000-08:002005-03-08T02:28:00.000-08:00The journalistic ideal, as I understand it, is to ...The journalistic ideal, as I understand it, is to present the facts of a situation to the public for judgment. "Balance" isn't a requirement. But "fact checking" is. The problem with source greasing, to me at least, is that it lacks fact checking without implicitly stating that fact checking was left out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270379.post-1110211864336145942005-03-07T08:11:00.000-08:002005-03-07T08:11:00.000-08:00Well, let's start from the beginning....you unders...Well, let's start from the beginning....you understand the difference between the journalistic ideal--balanced coverage of all points of view--and a source-greaser, in which only the source's point of view is represented--right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270379.post-1110182763270670722005-03-07T00:06:00.000-08:002005-03-07T00:06:00.000-08:00I'm just not convinced there is a significant diff...I'm just not convinced there is a significant difference between source greasing and regular journalism, as practiced in major & minor U.S. news periodicals. The only line you seem to be drawing is that, in source greasing, the *only* purpose of the article is to grease the source while in regular journalism it may occur as a subset of an article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270379.post-1110180515888962662005-03-06T23:28:00.000-08:002005-03-06T23:28:00.000-08:00As far as I know, it's pretty rare for a journalis...As far as I know, it's pretty rare for a journalist to parrot an official government or party press release without obtaining a balancing comment from the opposing party. Journalists will, of course, often arrange such stories in a way which favors the journalist's perspective on the issue. Alternatively, a journalist may occasionally parrot, without opposing commentary, statements from Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270379.post-1110148895881272222005-03-06T14:41:00.000-08:002005-03-06T14:41:00.000-08:00Continuing from the old comments.
Lower level jou...Continuing from the old comments.<br /><br />Lower level journalists (in the U.S.) follow signals from higher food chain journalists. Higher food chain journalists are certainly smart enough to know that, when parroting viewpoints, they are misleading the public. So, basically, you're saying that all journalists are source greasers and that our journalism system is a complete fraud. Or, at Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com