Associated Press Doesn't Report Stories, They Make The Stories

True to form, Associated Press reporter Glen Johnson reveals his low-level professionalism in this video by: a) making up facts b) stating opinion c) becoming the story instead of reporting the story and e) exposing the vanity of AP reporters. Not very professional today Mr. Johnson.

Who checks these guys? Where's the checks and balances on the press? Where is the accountability for Mr. Johnson? The Press CLAIM they report stories; in FACT they create stories.

"Big Media Isn’t Used To Having The Spotlight Turned Around And Put On Them"

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington writes a great entry here regarding mainstream media's amazingly juvenile inability to self-scrutinize.

Big Media Fuels Crime's Flames

Mona Charen writes convincingly here how irresponsible news media are guilty of promoting horrible anti-social behavior. Stoking the fire of murderers' inextinguishable lust for fame, news media unhesitatingly report names, photos and identities of crime perpetrators.

Anti Elitism Devices: Start Your Emancipating

Electronic Readers change the way books are created, manufactured, distributed and consumed. An article here by Steven Levy does well in explaining the implications on the future of books and their authors.

Media Free-Fall From Power

Technologically produced transparency and decentralization of power are causing an uncomfortable shake-up inside institutions and felt by individuals that have heretofore been less accountable for their actions. Those with things to hide, or holding position by title or name authority only (as opposed to moral authority), or those arbitrarily or subjectively placed in markets without accompanying value, may find transparency considerably disturbing.

Associate Press looks like the kindergarten press

Associated Press writers Melinda Deslatte, Mary Foster, and Cain Burdeau receive a failing grade for leaving a redundant paragraph in this AP article. Paragraphs 17 and 18 are nearly identical. Oops. We know amateurs make mistakes; evidently elite professionals do so as well.

Here are the paragraphs:

Paragraph 17: "A victory Saturday would be a rare trip to statewide office for a minority in the South — in a state that 16 years ago famously saw..."

Paragraph 18: "The victory marks a rare trip to statewide office for a minority in the South — in a state that 16 years ago famously saw..."

Unmasking the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Known wolves are less dangerous that unknown wolves in sheep's clothing. Media should be transparent. Biases and agendas should be clearly known. In that direction I would have it that newscasters would publish who they vote for. As stated succinctly by Jay Nordlinger in the National Review Online "The anchorman of CBS News should attend Democratic fundraisers (as Dan Rather did). The Supreme Court reporter of the New York Times should march in pro-abortion rallies, and then report on them (as Linda Greenhouse did). The U.N. Human Rights Council should have the most murderous regimes on it. It’s all an aid to clarity." Indeed, it would add to transparency, and the wolves would be known.