Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Deranged Lara Logan Totally Off the Rails" video.

  1.  @knockknock1246  On That we are 100% in agreement. There's so little of real journalism left its amazing. Circa 2009 I watched the second 1/2 of a lecture on late night TV about journalism. I didn't realise it for many years that the person speaking was actually a professor from my old university. I'm Australian but went to U. Illinois and only later found out that's where Robert McChesney teaches. He'd also been prominent in the 2004 documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism." What I distinctly remember him saying in 2009 was that, due to changes in the the corporate structures of the media, there had been a significant change in the way journalists work. Gone were the days when reporters went out and met people and asked questions and then wrote up what they found. The new stock market controlled entities didn't care about facts and stories they cared about advertising, subscriptions and quarterly statements. So journalists had to produce more and that meant checking less. Robert McChesney said that in the 1950s there was a ratio of journalists to public relations (PR) people of 4 or 5 to 1. By the early 2000s that had flipped to 1 to 4 or 5. He said many journalists spend there days cutting and pasting material prepared by corporate PR people into what's published. Except for things like the weather, traffic and plane crashes the news we see is largely an exercise in corporate or political PR. Even a lot of sports stories are via PR people. I bring this up with people on occasion and its amazing how few people realise it. They know something has happened but not what and it was only by chance I heard this about the PR people. One of the few channels I know on YT that does proper journalism is Paul jay's channel "the Analysisnews" and he has interviewed Robert McChesney about the state of journalism and how its become a PR conduit.
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  2. This actually made the news in Australia. I know because its one of the first stories that popped here this morning.
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  3.  @knockknock1246  What crap is that??? Our media is no more pathetic than anyone else's. Rupert Murdoch has done that for us.
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