NBC News Fail

[rk911]

We are back into the world of Yellow Journalism...

i don't think we ever left that world. with few exceptions newspapers, radio, tv, magazines are more interested in promoting their point if view than digging into a story and following it regardless of where it goes or to whom it leads. they mostly all do a passable job with fires, floods, etc. with just about anything else it will be about promoting their political point of view. i recall studying that in high school journalism class (1968). chicago had 4-major daily newspapers then and we would compare how the same story was covered, or buried, in each.

 

[Koolau]

"News" as we know it died back when it was required to pay for itself instead of being a cost of doing business for the various media. It's entertaining as heck, but I wouldn't plan to learn much more from the "News" now than I would from watching Saturday Night Live. Still, I don't blame the media. I blame us for allowing it to happen, but YMMV.

 

[Clone]

... but I wouldn't plan to learn much more from the "News" now than I would from watching Saturday Night Live.

Similar to that, it is scary that there is a not insignificant % of folks that consider things like 'The Daily Show' as a source of news. How did we go from listening to respected journalists to waiting for the punchlines?

The movie Idiocracy was not supposed to be a documentary.

 

[TromboneAl]

same outfit that rigged a pickup to explode several years ago ...

I'm not sure that 26 years can be called "several," but I get the point.

 

[rk911]

I'm not sure that 26 years can be called "several," but I get the point.

that long ago, eh? well that just confirms that the "news media" has been doing stuff like this forever...ever since "news" was invented.

 

[Elbata]

Can't get too worked up about it. The MSM is culpable for way more than this.