What do you think journalists care about more?

Question

making things entertaining, or promoting their own agenda? (we all know the asking for them to report the truth is too much to as these days)

"(we all know *that*...)" sorry about that mistake

Answer 1

Getting recognized by having their columns published which challenges them to be more sensational, accusatory, and inflammatory than everybody else, and getting on TV.

They care more about their careers which leads to a slackening of responsibility to the public and diminshing ethical standards.

Answer 2

Promoting their own agenda. They don't report stories, they report agendas, and how someone fits into that agenda.The truth is not nearly as important as their agenda. Case in point
"an incomplete, er inconvienient truth." They made a movie on a natural occurance, and it's a theory. That is all that it is. A theory, an idea without a case to be proven true. Journalists, whether left right black or white, all are self promoting. Promoting agendas

Answer 3

Being lied to daily through the media has become a rite of passage in the USA. What are the consequences of all the noise and lies?

The heavy price we pay for broadcast legal lying is a society that can no longer recognize the lie. The critical thinking skills necessary to challenge a claim are no longer readily available. Nor, are they desirable. Meanwhile, the noise and the lies continue to increase dominating our lives in a never ending stream of balderdash. Like a sponge we soak up what is called "news", but in reality is the orchestrated propaganda of capitalism and the so-called corporate "free market system" that has taken over the government of the United States.

Journalists have become cheerleaders for the establishment. News pundits have become regurgitators of the corporate/Pentagon line. The "experts" trotted out in their spiffy desert camouflage uniforms are the paid partisans of Pentagon management. Nary is an opposing view or voice of contradiction heard. The media have sucked in, and sucked up to, the "if you are not with us you are against us" fascist mindset. The media have, like the Borg, been assimilated into the collective. They are part of the mantra matrix chanting the same administration line and lies. Facts no longer matter. Investigative journalism has succumbed to the Tucker Carlson and James Carville style of babble. The bow-tied and bald-headed bastards put knots in our brains. The truth is as author, Steve Allen many years ago in his book, "Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking With 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind", warned us, is that we have severely increased the tendency to ineptitude.

Answer 4

Everything needs to be entertaining these days.But you can not only blame the media for that.Are you still prepared to read many,complicated pages of information on a subject because the story isn't black and white?Society in general is immature and I don't mean that anti American at all.Same thing goes for Europe.People are spoiled by luxury.They'd rather watch American idol; than a well documented program on the economic situation of the Middle east and how that effects their country.They prefer to hear Iran bad guy's like it's a cheap western

Answer 5

Journalist care about getting their name and stories in print or on the air. Nothing else matters.

Answer 6

Money and getting the story first

Answer 7

They only care about Ratings....Ratings = $$$$$$$$
They don;t even know what the truth might be.

Answer 8

Except for Fox News, who are these Journalists?????
They are the dirty un-bathed hippies from the 60's & 70's.
They are the poor little rich kids who decided to slow down on the drugs & and sex, and go on to college. They became lawyers, teachers, journalists, and Democrat Politicians.
BUT THEY STILL ARE SPITTING ON US VETS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

All of the above..And making sure their hair is perfect!

Answer 10

MONEY!!! its all they care about.