Comments on: A Reverse ‘Name That Party’ on Ted Stevens: You Don’t Fool Me, AP http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/08/15/a-reverse-name-that-party-on-ted-stevens/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:08:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO READ THE NEWS ABOUT TED STEVENS AND ALASKA « To The Republic For Which It Stands http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/08/15/a-reverse-name-that-party-on-ted-stevens/comment-page-1/#comment-123892 IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO READ THE NEWS ABOUT TED STEVENS AND ALASKA « To The Republic For Which It Stands Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:10:52 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=7346#comment-123892 [...] A Reverse ‘Name That Party’ on Ted Stevens By TBlumer Matt Apuzzo’s 750-plus word story on Ted Stevens’s situation (saved at host for future reference) doesn’t contain these words:. GOP. Republican. Conservative. (R-AK). This is the case even though he notes that Stevens “is in the midst … BizzyBlog - http://www.bizzyblog.com [...] [...] A Reverse ‘Name That Party’ on Ted Stevens By TBlumer Matt Apuzzo’s 750-plus word story on Ted Stevens’s situation (saved at host for future reference) doesn’t contain these words:. GOP. Republican. Conservative. (R-AK). This is the case even though he notes that Stevens “is in the midst … BizzyBlog – http://www.bizzyblog.com [...]

]]> By: dscott http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/08/15/a-reverse-name-that-party-on-ted-stevens/comment-page-1/#comment-123888 dscott Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:38:45 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=7346#comment-123888 Here's my challenge to the AP: The truly sad state of journalism is that the standards of the MSM have dropped so low that the National Enquirer in effect is now a higher standard and therefore more credible. People are tired of this foolishness and the MSM should realize that they can no longer foist the lie that they are unbiased. If they want to get back to that place where the public can actually trust what they say or not feel they are being snookered due to an agenda by omission of the facts, do the following: 1. Apologize to the public for your crappy biased reporting and display of poor judgement by editors allowing agenda based reporting of the news. 2. Pledge to report the facts, all the facts on a story, not opinion. Opinions are for editorials not news stories. 3. Do not report a story unless you have more than one side of it, if it exists, represented fairly and reasonably. 4. You will attribute properly immediately after the name of any politician what their party affiliation is, without exception. 5. You will promptly make corrections of factual errors when they are pointed out and then rerun the story with the correction in it's entirety in order to counteract the false or misleading conclusions due to said factual errors whether intentional or not. 6. You will give equal coverage of all candidates running for office during an election. No more excuses of popularity as determined by your arbitrary standards. You may chose not to cover any and that's fine but you will not show favoritism to any candidate using air time or political party. Your job is not to chose our candidates overtly or via deselection. 7. As more standards are articulated you will adopt them and pledge to the public your job is to report the news, not make the news, not spin the news, period. 8. Appoint an Omnibudsman editor to review all stories before they are published, including any stories you purchase from the other sources. The Omnibudsman will have the responsibility to cancel any story that in their opinion does not meet the standard of journalism cited previously or any other new standards. And demand said information be added before the story is released. 9. If neither the editors or reporters can comply with the previous points, fire them, they are a huge hole on your company's bottom line and what good does it do you to have all your so called journalists unemployed??? Here’s my challenge to the AP:

The truly sad state of journalism is that the standards of the MSM have dropped so low that the National Enquirer in effect is now a higher standard and therefore more credible. People are tired of this foolishness and the MSM should realize that they can no longer foist the lie that they are unbiased. If they want to get back to that place where the public can actually trust what they say or not feel they are being snookered due to an agenda by omission of the facts, do the following:

1. Apologize to the public for your crappy biased reporting and display of poor judgement by editors allowing agenda based reporting of the news.

2. Pledge to report the facts, all the facts on a story, not opinion. Opinions are for editorials not news stories.

3. Do not report a story unless you have more than one side of it, if it exists, represented fairly and reasonably.

4. You will attribute properly immediately after the name of any politician what their party affiliation is, without exception.

5. You will promptly make corrections of factual errors when they are pointed out and then rerun the story with the correction in it’s entirety in order to counteract the false or misleading conclusions due to said factual errors whether intentional or not.

6. You will give equal coverage of all candidates running for office during an election. No more excuses of popularity as determined by your arbitrary standards. You may chose not to cover any and that’s fine but you will not show favoritism to any candidate using air time or political party. Your job is not to chose our candidates overtly or via deselection.

7. As more standards are articulated you will adopt them and pledge to the public your job is to report the news, not make the news, not spin the news, period.

8. Appoint an Omnibudsman editor to review all stories before they are published, including any stories you purchase from the other sources. The Omnibudsman will have the responsibility to cancel any story that in their opinion does not meet the standard of journalism cited previously or any other new standards. And demand said information be added before the story is released.

9. If neither the editors or reporters can comply with the previous points, fire them, they are a huge hole on your company’s bottom line and what good does it do you to have all your so called journalists unemployed???

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