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All her talk of integrity, and yet HuffPo writes articles on Uber while she sits on their board. Where are the amazing journalists of our day? Where is the mode
by kartD 10y ago
All her talk of integrity, and yet HuffPo writes articles on Uber while she sits on their board. Where are the amazing journalists of our day? Where is the modern day Murrow or Cronkite?
On another note does anyone know any good Indian journalists? Or is the term an oxymoron :P ?
- robg 10y agoLet me google that for you: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arianna-huffington-uber_us_572118a7e4b0b49df6a9ff73 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arianna-huffington-uber_...
- losteverything 10y agoWhere is the modern day Murrow or Cronkite? All over. The trick is to find them. Our world is so much better because newspapers matter less and so much worse because cable matters more.
- kartD 10y agoTrue, journalism has been democratized, do you have any recommendations? I seem to have difficulty finding them
- losteverything 10y agoI like the week.
- kartD 10y agoNot to my taste, but I can definitely see why someone would like it. Still pretty good. Thanks!
- losteverything 10y agoI'll add Bloomberg. Esp their radio. Esp__2 their law program.
- kartD 10y agoI love Bloomberg and WSJ!
- e40 10y agoA friend recommended this. I went to their website and there was an article on guns (it was just after one of our horrific gun violence incidents) and their solution: arm everyone. That was really the conclusion from the op-ed, make sure everyone has a gun. No thanks.
- losteverything 10y agoIt's an aggregator mostly. (Re) prints from many sides. Definitely a case where it is a far better reading experience in physical magazine form than electronic. You can peek ahead to see where the opposing view or alternative view is going. The format is good for short attention people like myself
- manishsharan 10y agoBack when I was very young, my dad told me of honest journalists who had been tortured by India Gandhi's regime during the emergency while some did really well. So its not fair to judge all of the Indian journalists as equally inept. Instead of casually dismissing their contribution, look within yourself and ask yourself why you are not able to find a single Indian journalist worth knowing. edit : typos
- kartD 10y agoYou've misunderstood my comment, I'm asking for some good examples because I believe they exist and I haven't seen them. I don't follow regional and local language news, but I'm sure they have some good journalists. And please don't give me this self-introspection crap.
- selimthegrim 10y agoWhat integrity? She and her husband are still PNG in many Santa Barbara restaurants after walking out on tens of thousands in tabs.
- webkike 10y agoIs there some article you can reference about this?
- selimthegrim 10y agohttp://www.independent.com/news/2011/nov/03/dead-dogs-dancing/ http://www.independent.com/news/2011/nov/03/dead-dogs-dancin... "And then there’s Michael Huffington, the Texas tycoon who moved to Santa Barbara in the early ’90s so he could run for Congress. Huffington ingratiated himself with S.B. movers and shakers by writing $10,000 checks to all their favorite charities. But he and his famous wife, Arianna, who has since morphed into a famous left-wing media mogulista, were so late paying their bills that many of Santa Barbara’s high-end foodie establishments cut off credit to the high-octane couple. As he would later — when news stories broke that he’d hired an illegal immigrant to care for his children — Huffington blamed his wife."
- sandworm101 10y ago> Where is the modern day Murrow or Cronkite? They are on 'fake news' shows doing comedy.
- return0 10y agoUnless you are being sarcastic, comedy news shows are heavily biased and politicized.
- sandworm101 10y agoAnd Murrow or Cronkit weren't? My point was that the most popular and most trusted American newsmen aren't on network news shows any more. They are on variety shows doing comedy about the news.
- douche 10y agoAnd yet they were often less comically biased than the "real" news that they were lampooning. If nothing more, they provide a worthwhile service in poking at the absurdities of network news.
- easuter 10y agoTrue, yet they push absurd agendas of their own, see for example The Daily Show's ridiculous outrage-mongering over women's football.
- yardie 10y agoSince you threw it out there. Please inform the rest of us how?
- maverick_iceman 10y ago> On another note does anyone know any good Indian journalists? These days only Arnab Goswami comes to mind. In the past there were a lot of upstanding journalists like Arun Shourie, Kuldip Nayar, Lala Jagat Narayan etc.
- selimthegrim 10y agoKhushwant Singh, MJ Akbar?
- bruceb 10y agoHaving 6+ other people on a show and yelling doesn't seem the pinnacle of journalism.
- monksy 10y agoThat's how I feel about the New Yorker after I found out that they pinned a glowing review of "how great gawker was" written by none other than Adrian Chen. (He's a piece of work)
- lotso 10y agoAdrian obviously acknowledged his bias. Do you have an issue with anyone writing about things they're involved in? What legitimate criticism is there on this scenario you're describing?
- monksy 10y agoViolentAcres. He went after a guy who was a moderator on an unpopular, but legal subreddit. (Distasteful, I'll agree with you) The person who was the moderator, from my understanding did not contribute to the sub. He turned a very private individual into a very public individual and caused many bad things for the person. Even worse, he made sure to punish and taunt the individual. As a result the individual had a lot of rather stressful life events, was humiliated on CNN, etc. For all of this: Adrian Chen claimed a moral victory. ----- From my understanding, this was SOP at Gawker, and that is what lead them to have some very powerful enemies.
- jomamaxx 10y ago'journalists' ? It's a blog ...