Comments on: journalists in our country http://badscene.com/blog/2008/01/07/journalists-in-our-country/ You've got a bunch of old maid socks. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:03:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8-bleeding-edge hourly 1 By: leesajay http://badscene.com/blog/2008/01/07/journalists-in-our-country/comment-page-1/#comment-322 leesajay Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:38:33 +0000 http://badscene.com/blog/?p=114#comment-322 i can't speak to your golden memories, but i definitely think this kind of thing is indicative of the declining state of journalism today. what cheeses me off the most is the way that election coverage has become so totally about campaign strategy at the expense of information about, say, what policies the candidates actually support. i agree that we, the audience/electorate, can stand up for ourselves--and that means being vigilant about holding news orgs accountable. i can’t speak to your golden memories, but i definitely think this kind of thing is indicative of the declining state of journalism today. what cheeses me off the most is the way that election coverage has become so totally about campaign strategy at the expense of information about, say, what policies the candidates actually support.

i agree that we, the audience/electorate, can stand up for ourselves–and that means being vigilant about holding news orgs accountable.

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