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Edward R. Murrow oughta slap a dude.
Nov 17th
This comment slid past my twitter stream and caught my attention:
Journalism schools should not be teaching students how to get a job. They should be teaching them to tell stories.
Wha-what?
Now I don’t want to get into a pissing match with this particular dude. He gets particularly touchy about his newspaper background. So I respond politely with:
I think stories means made-up. Maybe they should teach them to state the facts in an interesting way.
To which he replies:
That’s your bias. Stories can also be truthful and accurate. A good journalist is a storyteller.
So I look it up.
sto⋅ry
–noun
1. a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
2. a fictitious tale, shorter and less elaborate than a novel.
Fine, technically a story can be truth or fiction. I still think the word story implies fiction and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone.
But after the steady declining of journalistic integrity and the news being taken over by businessmen, where are the real journalists? Should so-called journalists be telling stories?
I want real news back. I want straight facts, very little educated guessing and no fireworks and glitter. Can you imagine Walter Cronkite making shit up? Huntley or Brinkley taking sides on an issue? Or any of them spending hours gossiping about the private lives of reality show attention whores? I DON’T THINK SO!
And I don’t want to know if they ever did. I want to remember trusting the guy in the box. We need more guys in the box to trust. We need more men and women with integrity to go out and find the important news and give it to us straight with no frills, no filling and no corporate agenda.
Not tell stories.
I can get stories everywhere else.
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And I say guys in the box, because I think newspapers are dead. Yesterday’s paper can’t compete with 24 hour news channels and the Internet. I realize newspapers can go more in-depth with a subject than the local news can, but they don’t stand a chance. We’re so disenchanted with ALL journalists that we’re leery of more than the quick facts. The more I read, the more I wonder how much is fudged. I have friends in the news business and I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but you’re owned by the stockholders. I don’t trust you anymore.
My Healthness Theory
Oct 21st
Which has no basis in fact at all. Most of my theories have no basis in fact, but isn’t that what most faith is based on? And I have faith in my theories, so there.
Anyway…
Doesn’t it seem to you that everyone’s general health is going to hell? Growing up, do you recall this many people having asthma or mental health issues or autism or whatever? My parents both came from fairly large families and I don’t remember there being this many health issues among us kids until we all grew up. I mean, I have asthma, two of my kids have asthma, my friend has asthma, another friend and both her kids have breathing issues, etc. I’d say 7 out of 10 people I know have breathing issues. And I’ve heard a surprising amount of the people I know mention being on one sort of mental stabilizing medication or another.
In the generation before mine, everyone smoked. Everyone ate fatty foods and drank alcohol in a normal fashion. Sure, there were a few health problems here and there but NOT to the extent there are now.
Which is why I think with all our wonderful modern conveniences we’re poisoning ourselves. All those chemicals and additives, plastics and fumes are leeching together and making us all weaker. Product A is tested and product B is tested, but are ABC and D all tested together? From my shampoo and conditioner this morning, the additives in the food I ate today, the bug spray they used outside while my windows were open, the plastic water bottles I drink from, the carpet cleaner I used yesterday… times the last 17,000 days.
I wonder at the rates of asthma and autism in the Amish community or among those deep jungle villages in South America. Or worse, cancer and other debilitating diseases. Not that I’m some tree hugger, but geeze shouldn’t we pay more attention to the price we might be paying for the conveniences of plastics and synthetics? Are chemicals killing us?
Or should I up my mental stabilizing medication?
(Screw you, I don’t take any!)
Hey, something new!
Aug 29th
This is interesting. What an elaborate and completely bizarre way to mine your credit card information! Props to the person who thought this up and heads up to those gullible idiots who will fall for it.
I got an Care2 eCard from Secret a minute ago. My first thought was bullshit but then I figured what the heck, let’s check it out. I clicked the link and there was a beachy painting with lovers at the bottom, followed by this note:
DebbieHi Debbie… This is difficult for me to do because Im shy..but I have a crush on you. Ive never been able to tell you for reasons which you would quickly identify as obvious if you knew who this was. With that said I want you to guess who I am and approach me yourself.
To help you out with your guessing I made a few pictures and videos with Debbie written on my body. Theyre kind of risque photos so I had to made a profile at www.newsafesecure.com (copy & paste or type www.newsafesecure.com into your web browser). My username in the members area is DebbieandME09. Its a free website but you might need a CC or Debit to verify your age because I had to. Sigh.
But anyway sign up at www.newsafesecure.com and once you are inside search for me. I want you to guess who I am and then approach me yourself. Im shy and this is the bravest thing Ive probably ever done but you need to do the rest.
Kisses
Secret Admirer
Pshaw. There’s no way in hell I’m going any further. Oh sure, you might need to enter your credit card information so they can charge you $X-amount for the next 6 months until you get it killed, just to find out you’ve been suckered.
And on the off-chance that this is legit (hahahahahaHAHAHAHAHA) Secret should just send me a regular email so I can slap the shit out of you for being so scared of me. I’m looking for someone to admire me! And in the meantime, look up when to use an apostrophe.
Kisses
Debbie
P.S. I don’t pay for my porn, thanks.
