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Comment on Senator Reid said near-Universal Health Care is just weeks away from becoming law by Dave Morgan
Well, as a minor addition to the aforegoing discussion, these days a reporter can be anyone who keeps a diary. However, to add to one of the definitions offered above, a reporter does not report just on events. A reporter also reports on issues. There’s “event-driven” news and “issue-driven” news. By covering issues, the various events surrounded by or shaped by forces other than the ‘event’ lends clarity and a sense of causation that otherwise would be missing.
And let’s be clear, the news business has been pummeled for years over whether a reporter is biased or that his or her reporting is biased. It should go without saying but it bears repeating here, that every time a human being’s fingers wrap around a writing implement or finger tips manipulate a keyboard, what flows out is a kaleidoscope of thoughts, observations and nuanced understandings that the reporter “thinks” should be managed in such a way that the product of his keyboard or video offerings are somehow “just the facts,” or “unbiased,” or “objective.” Some myths die harder than others, but in truth, there is no such thing as unbiased reporting. What we put into a story is just as subjectively decided on as the elements we leave out, or insert “down the page” or “at the end of the video.” That is why it is so critical for each and every citizen of the world to avail themselves to MULTIPLE SOURCES OF NEWS. If reporters took the time to create this mythical objective product, it would take so much wordsmithing and focus group editing they’d never make deadline. News has no shelf-life because news is a continuously running conveyor belt of information. And for that it should be judged as much by its timeliness as it’s content.
It’s a fabulous profession. I’ve been hooked on it for nearly 35 years. Whoooh…I’m gettin’ old.