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CNN iReports = FAIL!

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by TheSportsPredictor, Oct 3, 2008.

  1. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    You get what you pay for.
     
  2. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Complete idiocy:

    http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081003/steve_jobs_rumor_sec.html?.v=2

    Let's see ... Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, Larry King. Johntw, welcome to the club.
     
  3. markvid

    markvid Guest

    Yeah, they'll track them down off the email...guaranteed. I'm sure they're quaking in their boots.
     
  4. host

    host Member

    I just finished posting the "news" that an original "story" I developed months ago (and could not persuade anyone in the commercial press to present as "news".....) was uploaded on Ireport, 18 hours agp, and is now the #1 result fo the principle term searched, on Google News:
    http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/59176/

    http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&um=1&tab=wn&q=gray+davis&ie=UTF-8

    I am hoping that this kind of a breakthrough development will put a dent in this:
    (You're in the business, so I'll leave it to you to decide if it's survived Upton Sinclair's era....)


    As far as the awareness level of most voters. How do they even "know what they know", with this as the history: (Many mistakenly believe that the US press has "liberal" bias...)
    ...and in 1934, when Sinclair won the California Gubernatorial primary:
    Ireport can "cover" the fact that the corporate press is the Mighty Wurlitzer of the entrenched, right wing, US controlling elite.
    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm
     
  5. Birdscribe

    Birdscribe Active Member

    It won't be too long... because it's already happened -- in 1999

    http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/148156/
     
  6. host

    host Member

    I know the teen who pulled off this fake financial news article stock scam, and because of his age, he got a slap on the wrist:
    http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-53869861.html

    Are any of you frustrated enough, especially after the bailout of elite debtholders on Friday, to work at exposing the right wing US establishment....the elite who pay your salaries.....as the pox on all of our houses that they truly are? They are the first to use propaganda, and then violence if they feel even the slightest hint of insecurity or domestic political threat. It has been that way since the Ludlow, CO massacre of strikers in 1914, and as recently as in the response in St. Paul, just last month.

    If you are a student of history, you are aware of the potential now for an economic depression and the dislocation it portends.

    I want to use Ireport to inform the public via well documented pieces, that there is only one party in the US:
     
  7. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Or Harry Reid can do the same thing simply by shooting off his mouth.
     
  8. WazzuGrad00

    WazzuGrad00 Guest

    Is Host the guy who hates Gray Davis?
     
  9. Cadet

    Cadet Guest

    No. Because I am a sportswriter. I attend low-level high school volleyball games and keep stats with different colored pens. I may work for the LIBRUHL MEDIA but I answer to (in order) my sports editor, managing editor, editor in chief, publisher and the occasional enraged swimming parent. As I advance in my career, my job will still involve coverage of sports. It will likely not involve taking on the "pox of the right wing establishment."

    You clearly have no concept of how all this works. It's like telling a third-grade teacher in Fort Collins, Colo. they need to take down the Bush Administration because NCLB is flawed.
     
  10. host

    host Member

    'srry Buckweaver, I admit to being brevity "challenged". The point is that the $700 billion bailout should be the shot heard round the world, and the opportunity offered by Ireport at least holds the potential to break through the "concrete wall" Upton Sinclair said,
    ....because journalists face an uphill battle, even if inclined to bite the hand that feeds them, and the sheeple have become conditioned to defend the elite, instead of challenging them. The view the elite as the American Idol or lottery winner, and they identify with him, because they fantasize that they can join them, so why oppose them.

    There is no opposition voice, and the sign is that the most "liberal senator", Obama, is positioned to the right of 1950's president Dwight Eisenhower on progressive taxation, commitment to defending and Israel dramatically more able to take care of itself than when Eisenhower rejected growing Israeli influence on outcomes of US elections, on pre-emptive use of force, and on military spending levels....Obama wants to increase US ground forces by 92,000 troops. Eisenhower would not have signed the surveillance/telecom amnesty bill.

    The right leaning elite pick both presidential candidates, and destroy any voice emerging from right of center, and the sheeple cheer as their conditioning predicts that they will. The thread at the top of this section of the forum is titled:
    "Are You Getting Out of The Business"..... Mayber some of you can be inspired, or angered....enough to take your communication and reporting skills in a new, constructive direction....if it isn't already too late.....
     
  11. host

    host Member

    Cadet, grrreat Post !!!! ....and I don't "hate" Gray Davis.....I just thought it was amazing that he could change his name, even on his drivers license, and then just stay silent and hide his own family skeleton while Schwarzenegger, who was upfront and asked the Wiesenthal center to investigate the elders in his family, way back in 1990, and an incurious California politcal press permitted Davis to hide his notorious "traitor" grandfather, throught three gubernatorial campaigns..... and no one views it as unusual, a black mark on the reputation of the press, or even something to report as a curiousity.....
    [​IMG]
    The Official German Report: Nazi Penetration, 1924-1942 - Page 239
    by Oetje John Rogge - National socialism - 1961 - 478 pages
    http://books.google.com/books?id=82ohAAAAMAAJ&q=rogge+%22Gentlemen,+I+have+reviewed+Mr.+Davis%27+proposition&dq=rogge+%22Gentlemen,+I+have+reviewed+Mr.+Davis%27+proposition
     
  12. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    My, my. You are quite the one-trick pony, host.
     
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