I must admit, I am uninformed. I do not read the newspaper every day.
At some point, I did receive a daily newspaper, but most of the time
they laid on the front steps in their plastic bags until they were
collected and tossed in the trash on garbage day. I also try to avoid
watching the news. It is frustrating and causes a lot of stress. What
ever happened to the professional journalist? It seems anymore that
news companies are hiring fewer educated journalists, perhaps to save
money. I open a newspaper only to find tons of mistakes, particularly
grammatical ones. These people can't seem to write a complete sentence.
Most of the articles make absolutely no sense - with both incomplete
sentences and bad grammar, they seem to lack significant information
that would clarify the article. What college, if any, did these people
attend that they did not even learn basic English language. I realize
that many of us speak it daily, but that does not mean that we use it
correctly. There is nothing less professional in this type of job than
not having a solid grasp of the language.
I also find it very frustrating the way the news sensationalizes
everything. Just give me all of the facts - no slants, no biased
opinions, no taking sides - just the facts. I have yet to find a
newspaper or newsprogram that gives the facts without sensationalizing
them, without trying to sway readers, that gives all sides of a story.
Example: Lately on my local news, there has been a story of a police
officer that shot a man. The officer is being investigated again. The
news is making a big deal out of this 4 year old event making the police
officer sound corrupt and racist. But the fact that the victim was
fleeing, running from the cop, in a stolen vehicle no less, has been
downplayed quite a bit. And of course the reason the police officer
shot the man was because the victim was a minority, not because he was a
criminal running from the law. If I am not mistaken, fleeing is a
shootable offense. Personally, I'm tired of this story and really don't
care about it anymore. Enough!
I suspect that this is why many people choose not to read the
newspapers. They are frustrated with bad journalism, bad grammar, and
blatant sensationalism.
Thank you for reading my rant. If anyone knows of the kind of
newspaper or news program that I would want to read, please let me know
about it. I would like to be informed, just with lower blood pressure.
H. Carroll
>
>You wrote: Isn't that why we still read different newspapers?
>
>Don't we wish! Twenty percent of the U.S. population reads a newspaper
on
>a daily basis. That figure drops to fifteen percent in Texas. I ask
just
>about everyone with I come in contact, if they read a newspaper every
day.
> I am astonished at how many do not; even more so when I ask if they
read a
>weekly news magazine. How on earth can people make informed decisions
if
>they do not read?
>
>
>------
>Robert Handy
>Brazoria County Historical Museum
>100 East Cedar
>Angleton, Texas 77515
>(409) 864-1208
>museum_bob
>[log in to unmask]
>http://www.bchm.org
>Subject: Re: Your TOP EVENT / DECISION that shape
>
>Interesting point. I would like to get cable just so that I can brush
up
>on my Greek by watching Antenna straight out of Athens, but it comes
with
>20 other channels I could care less about, so I am still holding
strong,
>no cable in my house. I do watch ABC News but I also switch to PBS to
>listen to the BBC to learn more about world events and to get a
different
>slant on things. Switching from the visual media, Isn't that why we
>still read different newspapers? To get different viewpoints? That's
>why TV really hasn't been the greatest invention, you can still tune it
>out.
>
>O
>Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
>Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
>18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard
>Yorba Linda, CA 92886
>(714) 993-5075 ext. 224; fax (714) 528-0544; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
>On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:18:39 -0400 Jane Sproull Thomson
><[log in to unmask]> writes:
>>I find it kind of interesting that the major events you mention all
>>happened
>>in the US. One of the reasons I had our cable disconnected was that
>>my sons
>>seemed to be getting the impression, since most cable stations are US
>>based,
>>that all world events happen in the US, and if it didn't happen in the
>>US it
>>wasn't important. Now we only watch the CBC news, which gives us a
>>Canadian
>>slant on events worldwide and uses BBC as well as ABC news reports.
>>Many
>>Americans take this dominance for granted...many of you probably don't
>>know
>>that at this moment, the US and Canada are engaged in a trade dispute
>>over
>>Canada's most recent attempt to protect its cultural industries
>>internally,
>>and the US's insistence that we have no right to do this.
>>What role do museums have in resisting cultural imperialism? Should we
>>even try?
>>
>>
>>At 10:44 AM 03/02/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>>In my opinion the invention of the Television changed everything. No
>>>longer did people have to rely on print or word of mouth the learn of
>>>events throughout the country or world. We could watch Kennedy being
>>>assasinated unlike those who learned of Lincoln's death. We could
>>watch
>>>the horrors of the Vietnam war instead of listening to reports over
>>the
>>>radio. The television puts us at the delivery of septuplets and the
>>>doorstep of death penalty vigils. I believe that with the TV's
>>delivered
>>>to our home brought more immediate knowledge than had ever been
>>known,
>>>even those who are illiterate in this day and time can remain
>>>knowledgeable through the TV; but we also lost our cultural
>>innocence.
>>> How much good news is reported in comparison to the amount of bad.
>>How
>>>many comparisons to the violence on television to the rise in
>>violence
>>>involving our youth, i.e. school murders in Jonesboro, Arkansas, do
>>we
>>>hear. There are people today who do not have computers but how many
>>>homes do not have TV's?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: Roger Smith
>>>Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 4:08 AM
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: Your TOP EVENT / DECISION that shaped th
>>>
>>>With Millennium 'madness' looming, I thought it might be rather fun
>>to
>>>invite LIST members and individuals to submit their pick of a single
>>>event
>>>or decision that, in their opinion, made the most impact upon this
>>>Century?
>>>
>>>The recommendations no doubt will be purely subjective ( perhaps a
>>trifle
>>>quirky) and should come with a short sentence of justification!
>>>
>>>
>>>The responses will be collated and published in the April edition of
>>>GLOBAL
>>>MUSEUM ( in the FORUM section).
>>>To save bandwidth, could I invite you to mail your contribution off
>>the
>>>list
>>>to:
>>>[log in to unmask]
>>>
>>>I am picking we will have a wide range of choices and l Iook forward
>>to
>>>receiving the nominations
>>>
>>>Roger
>>>
>>>http://www.globalmuseum.org
>>>
>>>
>>Jane Sproull Thomson
>>
>
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