Wednesday, November 26, 2014
WTF Journalism . Tabloids, do you pick them up in the supermarket.
Yahoo news has hastened it's free fall to the bottom with their tabloid approach to journalism. People , and I use my self as an example don't really wish to have to censor every article that we read or fact check them just to see if some of the information provided within them are indeed real. Once upon a time, a person could read an article and be reasonably assured that what the person who wrote the article said was true and that they had some skin in the game and when they affixed their name to it , it meant something. Not any more. Sadly , there are a great number of people who believe in reading just the headlines of any story, and whatever it tells them in two sentences is the Gods honest truth . Facts , there is no place for having any facts when your whole story has to be said in forty characters or less. Fake stories and who is supposed to regulate them? Do you get you news from the rack at the grocery store. Big Foot lives - My camera jammed so I don't have his picture. The Loch ness Monster sank my boat- story inside I'm raising my ex-wife's alien love child. This type of journalism is becoming the fare from many of the sites that grace the pages of Yahoo News as of late. I find my self going to Google more and more looking to find stories that I can read with an open mind and let the author tell the story without having to chase down all of what was said within. I put this story away yesterday before finishing it , and today I no longer have the types of sites offering the stories that I had been telling about. This leads to another thing, I was writing about Yahoo on a Google site and some how my information got to yahoo without me ever even posting this story , Coincidence? OK. 11-26-10:34 decided to run story anyway after at first deciding not to on 11-20
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