Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Reaction To "Reporting To Conclusions"

I think that "Reporting To Conclusions" is a very bold and refreshing article. I agree with the author, Rem Rieder, about how journalism has gotten "mushy" and that we need more people like Anderson Cooper that are going to look at the evidence in front of them and say the truth, no matter how many people it offends or how incorrect it is according to the rules of journalism. I think that having journalists speak their opinion on certain subjects would be a great way to get more people interested in the news. However, having journalists no longer be unbiased would be a double-edged sword. It is a great thing when their is chaos and controversy happening in a foreign country, but when that unbiased writing is used in American and local papers I believe chaos would ensue. People might start cancelling their subscriptions to certain newspapers because of what a certain journalists writes for that newspaper. It would cause so much upheaval and bipartisan ism that the reason the reason journalists became biased would be forgotten and lost in the controversy. So until our country can become more united I think having journalists write with a biased nature would only fuel the fires of bipartisan ism.

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