(07-02-2017, 09:44 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: This is the same CNN that had to fire a couple of reporters for lying about the administration, right? They need to "start" doing their job; they can't "keep" doing it when they haven't done it to date.
Good journalistic organizations screen potential journalists (this includes photographers) for competence and integrity. On occasion a bad one slips in, as has manifested itself with some reporters who have fabricated or plagiarized stories. Get caught faking or plagiarizing stories or even pressing something inconsequential as a major scandal, and your career is through as a journalist. One journalist who fabricated a story was discovered five years later doing a minimum-wage job in a department store.
If Jayson Blair has a job in the newspaper business, it is delivering them on a paper route to supplement his meager income.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.