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March 06, 2007
Journalism in Four Easy Steps!
Allah finds a video of Helen Thomas decrying the new media. In the interview, she says "Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist...I don't think the average person knows the rules of the game."
Cripes.
Trust me, it's not rocket science. I have a degree in journalism, so out of the depths of my edumacation, I give you journalism in four easy steps:
1. Go to an event.That's it. I'm passing on my hard-earned knowledge to you for free.
2. Write down what people say and do.
3. Go back to the newsroom.
4. Describe what you saw and heard in story form.
Posted by slublog at March 6, 2007 03:48 PM
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1. Go to an event.
2. Write down what people say and do.
3. Go back to the newsroom.
4. Insert own political bias.
5. Describe what you saw and heard in story form.
6. Embrace agenda journalism.
7. Claim that you are not biased.
8. Pontificate how great you are.
9. Denigrate those who disagree with you.
10. Do it all in the name of GOOD.
Posted by: Entelechy at March 6, 2007 05:50 PM
You beat me to it.
Posted by: MainiacJoe at March 6, 2007 07:46 PM
The word from (Cold War era) Poland:
Don't think.
If you think, don't speak.
If you think and speak, don't write.
If you think and speak and write, don't sign.
If you think and speak and write and sign,
don't be surprised.
Would that it could be so simple.
Posted by: Jerry K. at March 7, 2007 10:48 PM