23 Replies to “Journalists: Unprofessional ‘Professionals’”

  1. When I watch our local news the newscasters at some point invariably start giggling, bantering, jabbing and joking with each other, at which point I reach for the mute button. I believe the network for comedians is on its own channel.

  2. I remember when news programs were serious, with the most light-hearted moment being David Brinkley’s “Good night, Chet.” In fact, I started watching TV news at a very young age solely because of Brinkley’s sign-off; I just knew he was smiling at me. Cronkite never entered our living room.
    Then women were given news anchor positions, and suddenly we saw the rise of Happy Talk (as it was then called) — the news anchors, weatherman, and other on-air talent were encouraged to chat and joke with each other throughout the show. The tone has been all downhill since then, and I trace the decline back to the entry of women into anchor positions.

  3. Journalism went down when student journalists started spouting beauty queen narratives:
    I want to change the world! Make it a better place – weeeee!
    The outright lying is accepted justification by this warped mind set.
    So little wonder you get the likes of obama, but a couple of decades after that became the media’s agenda.
    and PA, back to your cave now, just follow the ground tracks of your knuckles.

  4. The day Canada AM was dumped for the pathetic morons on the local Edmonton new, it was a said day. The first clue not to vote for Thomas Lukaszuk for Conservative leader is his judgement in marrying the morning news bimbo whose greatest thrill in life was doing a two-part series on an 11 year old girl who believed herself to be a boy.
    The young weather guy and traffic girl actually are talented.
    Speaking of Alberta’s leadership race. I can’t see myself voting for Jim Prentice, another Red. I guess I have to wait for Daniel Smith.

  5. PA, isn’t nak3dnews dot com Canadian? Wimmenfolk is all they do, and the news is quite serious (or so I am told).

  6. It is Danielle and I don’t particularly like the direction they have taken recently. However, the Progressives have to go, after 40+ years the rot is well imbedded.

  7. BJ Clinton, trying to spread the responsibility for the Benghazi debacle, occurring on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, that was Hillary Clinton’s alone as Secretary of State, does not mitigate the malfeasance and short-sightedness that Secretary of the State Department of the United States of America Hillary Clinton displayed to the whole world.
    IF, there was suspected malfeasance on the part of Condoleezza Rice for the loss of any American diplomatic personnel during George Bush’s presidency, I’m sure Condi will be made to answer when and if she is running or considering a run for the Presidency.

  8. The time of professional journalists was dealt its final death blow with Walter Duranty and Walter Cronkite. Huuuuummmm. I wonder what the commie word for traitor is: Walter?
    Idd…I guess they don’t teach irony in school anymore.You said the exact same thing as pa,however used more PC words.

  10. All of you who harken back to the newscasters of your youth forget that even Walter Cronkite lied and tried to sway public opinion. While the US was almost defeating the Viet Cong, Walter lied and said the Tet Offensive was a failure, causing Nixon to believe he couldn’t win the PR battle at home, pulling back and eventually failing in Vietnam.
    I believe that newspapers were always about controlling and guiding public opinion, stirring dirt, covering it up by not reporting some things if it helped ‘our guy’. They were either not so obvious about it or we just didn’t realize because we didn’t have so many news sources or the internet to go back and ‘remember’ or research or jog our memories.

  11. Exactly.I’m ashamed about the shit I swallowed from trusted news sources…

  12. It was the ’68 Tet Offensive, and the President was Johnson-D.
    Nixon was elected president on the promise he would get America out of Viet Nam, peace with honor.
    That said, your point about journalistic bias being old is quite true.

  13. Russian word for commie is предатель.
    And vic in ont, you are right. It has always been that way. In the 1800s the Globe was liberal and the Mail was tory. What is different today is that almost all of the press is liberal, although it passed true liberalism long ago and became more Marxist.

  14. Didn’t the backdrop have anyone else howling?
    “Clinton Global Initiative”
    “An Initiative of the Clinton Foundation”
    I was half-expecting to see a third line:
    “A Division of Global Clinton, Inc.”
    with president-for-life Chelsea in charge.

  15. All one has to do is read about William Hurst’s fight with the Communists in his newspaper unions to understand how the media has been infiltrated. That was in the early ’20’s, not the ’50’s. Same with Ron Reagan in the Actor’s Guild in the ’50’s. Influencing media has paid off in a major way for decades. What progressives never thought was that people would quit reading and do not watch conventional TV anymore.
    Fundamentally people are lazy. If media does not reflect the here and now, which social media can do, most are not interested. If ideas are not tested through ‘critical thought’ then idiots like Obama and Turdeau ascend. People can argue it has always been so. I hear that a lot now a days. When one considers the decades of suffering that the Communist have ‘gifted’ Russia, progressives around the world should pause and reconsider.

  16. If David Gregory was a legit, serious journalist, he would have ask Clinton,,,,,,,,,,”What difference does that make” ! ,,,,,,,right after Clinton started to sidestep with tales from the Bush era.

  17. I work with one of the Army Rangerers who were in the Battle of Mogadishu. He knows Bill abandoned them. Appears husband and wife are very similar.

  20. You’re welcome. Journalistic bias is the reason so many people think Viet Nam was a Republican war, Nixon’s War. It wasn’t.
    The Democrats brought America into a war in which the U.S. had no interest, except to police an agreement for third parties. Nixon was the POTUS when the music stopped and the U.S. hadn’t a chair anymore.(didn’t have a stake, shouldn’t have had a chair either)
    I’ve read people who blamed Eisenhower for American involvement in Viet Nam or some people who have blamed Harry Truman.
    I’d have blamed Douglas MacArthur, …if he’d been elected President.
    The U.S. never should have disarmed the Viets who threw off the Japanese Empire in WWII.
    Those people should have been trusted to build their own independent republic, having tasted totalitarianism, instead of being disarmed and returned to the rule of the French, the same French who had earlier abandoned Viet Nam to the tender mercies of the Japanese Imperial Army without firing a shot to defend them.

  21. A legitimate, serious journalist would ask Bill Clinton whether I was ethical for a president to take sexual advantage of a junior member of his staff and then lie about itto the public.

  22. “If David Gregory was a legit, serious journalist, he would have ask Clinton…”
    A legitimate, serious journalist would have asked Bill Clinton whether it was appropriate for a US president to use his position to take sexual advantage of a junior member of his staff.

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