2007-06-16 22:12:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
The news reporting is certainly more cowardly.
The tech advances make up for that. Blogs, cell phone cameras, and worldwide news have seriously made the job of brain dead news editors that put dishonest folks like Judith Miller in the public newstream harder.
God, I miss the days when journalists had backbone and pundits were confined to editorial pages of newspapers.
2007-06-16 23:48:42 · answer #1 · answered by sharkeysports 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The media is much more open now than 35-40 years ago. We get much more information from the war zones of today than back then. News was limited then under the guise of security. They still limit what we know today under the same premise, however so much more is released to the various news bureaus now.
2007-06-17 05:16:31 · answer #2 · answered by jtwb568@yahoo.com 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The media today is chickensh*t compared with 40 years ago.
We used to get honest reporting, with the media not afraid to tell the truth.
Today they are so scared of offending the government, esp the President, that despite the technological advances, they have become shallow lackeys. Worse than useless.
2007-06-17 05:25:11 · answer #3 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Faster news coverage than what was durning the Vietnam War.
2007-06-17 05:15:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What news media today? All we have is a media that very quickly passes on whatever goosip or propaganda thay hear. No facts, just their biased views. Never both sides of a story.
2007-06-17 09:24:43 · answer #5 · answered by GABY 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they no longer investigate stories. they hang around and wait for press releases. they depend more on each other. they all report exactly the same thing at the same time. they are really editorialist pretending to be journalists, this trend always existed but really took off in vietnam after tet. at this point in time it's absolutly absurd.
real journalism was dying then...now its not merely nearly dead, t's really most sincerely dead.
2007-06-17 05:30:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Better cameras and stupider reporters. Lets get Geraldo back on air to draw the enemy a map in the sand of where we plan our next maneuver!!!
2007-06-19 23:25:14 · answer #7 · answered by Marianne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They now have the benefit of cellphones, satellite phones and computers to enhance the quality and speed of their news gathering and news presentation
2007-06-17 05:18:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋