What characteristic of modern journalism or journalists annoys you the most or delights you the most?

Answer 1

I don't want to be able to detect the opinion or beliefs or political convictions of the journalist. Their job is to report the news, not tell the audience how they feel about it. Even if it is a horrific accurance they are reporting, I would rather not see their anguish. It too often appears practiced and insincere .

Answer 2

The word is annoy.. modern journalists are not objective. They are driven by political leanings and it should not be so. I wanted to become a journalist and was on my way, but the more I saw the lack of objectivity, the less I wanted to be a part of it. Perhaps I was terribly naive, but I believed that the news should tell the truth, whatever that be. Unfortunately, that is not the case, and my blinders have long since been cast into the rubbish.

Answer 3

When a journalist makes reference to mental illness in a joking way, so as to describe a situation, I am annoyed. I don't know how an otherwise intelligent person has a vocabulary to describe what he/she wants to report on loses it when he/she feels the need to make fun of someone mentally ill. Journalists would never joke about it if they were caretakers. They'd know how hurtful it is. It delights me when journalists "think out of the box" and use their vocabulary to make us feel like we are there where the story is. A good journalist has the ability to make us feel we saw the event and to me, that is delightful.

Answer 4

Modern journalism, blogs included, has blown the doors off the way we use language and what is acceptable in print, particularly those scandalous words and terms one just never mentions in front of the children. The word "F*ck" seems to pop up in the damnedest places, always righteously reported. "BJ" is shorthand middle-schoolers understand, and many people are slowly but surely forgetting how to spell as they truncate words(i.e."awwriiit" or "my baby-daddy") or use numerals as parts of words (4nic8 comes to mind). Slang expressions, no matter how inappropriate or crude, are slavishly reported and quoted to establish journalistic "kool". This loss of lingual clarity is sad to see. When vocabularies shrink, creative expression suffers and even journalists are not immune. Creative license is the writer's privilege but the journalistic licentiousness that is giving impetus to this inchoate move toward mundane obscenity is more than a matter of taste, it is a cultural defect.

Answer 5

Annoying: Pandering and slobbering all over celebrities. Like the whole Angelina/Brad Pitt/Jennifer Aniston saga. Who really cares? People are trying to live vicariously through these people instead of taking care of their own business. It's sad.

Delights: I can't really think of anything at the moment. Media is so corrupted. It used to be that reporters would do anything for a scoop...that uncovering the truth mattered. Now the media can be told what they can and can't report and how it should be reported...

Answer 6

The characteristic of modern mainstream media that annoys me the most is the inaccurate and unfair reporting of events in the Middle East, particularly the 'demonizing' of Israel; a tiny country surrounded by enemies who call for her annihilation and who populate an area with 700 times the land mass as Israel "proper."
The "Palestinians" is a misnomer for Arabs displaced by ARABS immediately after the modern State of Israel was born in 1948 and she was attacked by six Arab countries. The Arab nations involved in this attack told all of the Arab people living in Israel to flee, that Israel and her people would be annihilated, and then the Arab people could return once this was accomplished. Well God had different plans! To call the descendants of these 1948 refugees modern day 'refugees' is also an outrageous misnomer. The definition of refugee does not line up with any so called "Palestinian" born after the 1948 flight from Israel imposed by the Arab brothers who then refused to absorb any of the actual refugees, though the tiny nation of Israel has absorbed more than ten thousand of them. To portray the "Palestinian" (Arab) position as tragic is anything but true. And to demonize Israel for rightly defending herself is outrageous.

Answer 7

Journalism, especially that depicted on CNN, MSNBC, FOX (especially) NEWS, and others, is too focused on sensationalizing EVERYTHING! And once it is reported, the same story (told by 50 different people) is repeated every 10 minutes! Is it that hard to have reporters do old fashioned investigative reporting today? Oh sorry, advertising dollars and media share are more important than objective coverage.

Answer 8

Lack of research and critical analysis in the stories. Many stories I read or watch on TV just present the viewpoint of one individual or like-minded group. If they have some organizational obligation to "balanced reporting", then they include the viewpoint of some opposing individual or group. But there is often a whole universe of objective facts that could be examined and used to give context to the one or two opinions. That is very rarely found these days!

It isn't liberal OR conservative, it is just laziness!

Answer 9

Probably because of the press's habit of treating every Obama event like an infomercial and automatically attacking any candidate that leans the slightest bit right.

Answer 10

The news media is completely made of a majority of biased liberals who have tried to do everything to undermine the American war effort regarding the war on terror. They are all traitors and slimebuckets to do that to their own country.

These people should be ashamed of themselves and be put on trial for treason.