So the old
60 Minutes hack Morley Safer
doesn't like citizen-journalists. Not even a little bit.
In fact, he's downright "appalled" by the whole idea of Internet journalism and seems to wish it would all just go away. We need to leave the "reporting" to him and his professional class of "real" journalists, Safer sonorously declared...
Safer, a Canadian, admitted that he "sounds like a Neanderthal" with his hatred of citizen journalism -- which, he said, he'd trust as much as he'd trust "a citizen surgeon" -- nonetheless he rejects the idea that mere citizens can be a legitimate source of news reporting.
I think the worst part for Morley is that
stories like this are sneaking past the
60 Minutes Guardians and are making it into the public eye.
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| Wormtongue. Err, no, that's not right. Morley Safer. Yeah, that's it. Morley Safer. |
Another example of the beltway bubble bursting after the President's debate debacle. Obama's numbers in that debate have fallen from 25% win to 14% and the media can't protect him.
ReplyDeleteQueue lamentation by liberal media...
Citizen journalists are like "citizen surgeons"?
ReplyDeleteOne word, one phrase: Rathergate, "Fake but accurate".