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2003-11-30 Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-30 13:11|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Reuters: Putting "Spin" Ahead of "Profit" and "Journalism"

Posted by Frank G 2003-11-30 1:28:29 PM|| 2003-11-30 1:28:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey! Maybe we should start a 'Most Yellow act of Journalism' award to be given to the 'serious media' for the most biased and 'Yellow' act of journalism. We can have a 'News Service' division, a 'Print' division, 'Sattilite TV' division, and 'Local Channel' division.

Catagories:
* Most Blantant lie of the year
* Most Inaccutate
* Most Biased - Liberal
* Most Biased - Conservative
* Most Biased - Ecological
* Most Biased - Animal Rights
* Most Biased - Religious Faith
etc...

Tabloids would be disqualifed.

The problem is what do we give as an award? A yellow-stained roll of toilet paper?

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-11-30 1:31:19 PM|| 2003-11-30 1:31:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 CrazyFool - unless you're Bill Gates, you'd quickly run out of money for the TP.

Posted by PBMcL 2003-11-30 1:42:10 PM|| 2003-11-30 1:42:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Reuters: Putting "Spin" Ahead of "Profit" and "Journalism"

The news division is the most well-known, but also the most unprofitable. Reuters's bread-and-butter is financial news and electronic trading. Recently, the British news chief was replaced with an American. Note that the tone has not changed one whit, meaning that the new guy agrees with whatever went on before.

The good news is that Reuters's margins are getting slammed by competition from Bloomberg, both in financial data and electronic trading, where Bloomberg is expanding in leaps and bounds. In a matter of years, Reuters will either close its news division or shut down altogether, as its slipping financial markets-related products prove unable to subsidize its moribund news division.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-11-30 3:02:40 PM|| 2003-11-30 3:02:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 General Electric annonced this week the creation of a new generator unit to be placed on the heads of journalists to capture the estimated 5 terawatts of electrical power that could be generated annually from headspinning.

Posted by frank martin 2003-11-30 3:41:51 PM|| 2003-11-30 3:41:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Presumably, Reuters has an organization in the states. I think Bush is missing a bet by not making them register as an agent of a foreign (and hostile) power. Then every Rooters article could carry the disclaimer " Reuters is a regeristered agent of the people who want to kill you."

Posted by Mercutio 2003-11-30 5:55:55 PM|| 2003-11-30 5:55:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Mercutio -- I think most news organizations would have to register in that way. Remember the NYC TV stations who raced to see who could remove the American flag from their sets fastest?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-11-30 6:01:06 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-11-30 6:01:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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