Tuesday, January 03, 2006

This is a media tragedy...

That shouldn't have happened.

Anyone who has done that party game of passing a message around the room, only to have it completely changed when it comes back to you, miscommunication is a fact of any communications.

However, as someone with no journalism training, perhaps I'm being naive, but wouldn't a responsible journalist have two sources before reporting anything, much less something of this import?

And wouldn't you know it? Geraldo is right at the front of the pack getting everything wrong. "Tell me." "Tell me." "Who's your daddy?"

2 comments:

Footprint said...

and there really is no penalty for it so....

azlibertarian said...

Well, for me the "penalty" is that I can hardly stomach to watch Geraldo at all. I don't watch any news except Fox News, but the minute Geraldo comes on, I'm outta there.