people say twitter is going to achieve the breaking point of information. That we'll have access to so much unfiltered information that we'll go running back to the newspapers.
they keep using the same talking point. I've never been to the twitter page, but I can tell you no one tweets about the cheese sandwich they are eating. No one checks on those people.
i think the newspapers are smug. And I think writers are worse. I read somewhere I can't recall that journalists don't see it as a job, but as if they're doing something for the good of the people. thats how we got in this mess. i guess they're breaking the old maxim "don't live to work, work to live."
your jobs no more important than mine, and anyone can learn my job. maybe filtered news is the problem though i doubt thats industry wide. the local news is a sham. as the dig tells it, its a "cavalcade of car accidents and house fires" and I've used that example ever since.
Periodicals are the only news source I trusted and you get the same thing in the long run. a well researched article with all angles covered. in 2007, on the lead up to Time's Man of the Year i remember the dopes in the "media" fighting over whether it should be david petraeus or al gore.
Time picked vladimir putin. which was a logical choice. the first two were fixing issues, the third ressurected a 25 year old corpse of a nation.
i don't have writers or the media because they are bias - i'm bias. i hate them because somewhere out there in their training as journalists they beleive they become ghandi. its too bad too because i liked the op-ed section.
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