Some 'journalists' quotes are exquisitely revealing:
“During any breaking news event we report what we know as we learn it.” (New York Times spokesman quoted in the Wall Street Journal and republished in The Australian, 23 October, on the Gaza hospital explosion.)
Reporters ‘learn’? Not ‘investigate’ and ‘verify’?
No, the NYT robot is on another journalistic planet; the one on which news capture and confirmation osmotically bypasses his abilities. He is a typing frog incapable of a leap. In fact, he budges not an inch from the lily pad:
“And as the facts on the ground become more clear, we continue reporting.”
Or, translated, ‘the truth, if there is one, doesn’t matter, we can fix it later’.
Lazy ‘journalism’ like this will kill newspapers far quicker than any internet. The real problem for the 'journalist' is that since the reader has surpassed his level of intelligence he (the reader) regards the organ for which the journalist 'writes' as not worthy of his attention, let alone purchase, online or otherwise.
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