Katrina and journalists

[cema]

Instapundit talks about failure. I think there was also success, on the pages of the New Orleans local paper, Times-Picayune. However, my general disappointment with the press continues.

Comments

[email-animal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, let's blame the journalists and while we are at it - let's see what effect they had on the strength, the timing of occurrence and the path of the hurricane itself.... Inquiring minds want to know.

[cema.livejournal.com]

let's blame the journalists

No, let's kiss their asses.

[email-animal.livejournal.com]

If your government relies on journalists for information leading to its decision-making, maybe, just maybe, there is something f...ing wrong with the government?

[cema.livejournal.com]

My government?

I don't know where the government gets its information from. But I know where the people are getting information from. Most of them, unfortunately, still rely on the mass media. And mass media fail them.

[email-animal.livejournal.com]

Not that I am defending mass media, but I think that one should direct one's anger to the real sources of problems.

[cema.livejournal.com]

The real source of my problems is that I cannot get sufficiently reliable sources of information without spending too much time.

The fact that governments suck is trivial. Everybody knows not to trust them too much. But the media suck even more spectacularly, in some ways.

[email-animal.livejournal.com]

The fact that media is unrealiable is also trivial.

[cema.livejournal.com]

It is not trivial to all. The press is often (too often) trusted more than it deserves.