@DefiyantlyFree My fair share of someone else's hard work is 0%. Opting into a spirit of entitlement is simply asking for a form of brain damage that will steal your joy slowly every single day.
Without integrity and basic principles that protect us from our own opinions and bias, journalism is reduced to a tool of information warfare and little more. Out of the ashes, propaganda and disinformation rise to dominate the media landscape, bury the truth and threaten us all.
So I wrote the Ten Commandments of Real Journalism:
1) Journalists are not lawyers in a court of law trying to prove a case or activists campaigning for a cause. Our job is to seek the truth no matter what and follow the facts wherever they lead us regardless of political outcomes or consequences.
2) It is not the role of a journalist to decide what people should think. Our duty is to search for the whole truth and communicate accurately and honestly so the audience or reader can make up their own mind.
3) Thou shalt not mislead, deceive or lie…to yourself or to the public.
4) Question everything. Only the truth stands up to questioning.
5) Two first-hand sources are the holy grail - always better than indirect or single bsources.
6) Be as skeptical of those you like and agree with as you are of those you neither like nor trust.
7) Opinion and analysis have a worthy place in journalism but are not fact and should not be presented as such.
8) Never underestimate the audience. People are not dumb - despite what many in the media think and lack of familiarity with a subject should not be confused with stupidity.
9) Be honest with yourself and aware of your own bias. No one is immune.
10) Anonymity has an important place in protecting sources for valid reasons. It should not be used as cover for political, corrupt or nefarious purposes and it is up to us to be the guardians of our craft.
Good talking again with @rebeccagrantdc on the @JoePiscopoShow! Check out her latest article on the Trump Greenland deal. Good stuff!
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“And there is one final asymmetry, the one that ought to settle the matter once and for all. There is no flight from Europe by anyone—no community, no religious minority, no ethnic group, no political tendency—as a consequence of European far-right violence. No Muslims, no Jews, no atheists, no ex-Muslims, no gay men and women are packing suitcases in Frankfurt or Manchester or Marseille and applying for asylum in Cairo or Islamabad or Algiers because European far-right militants have made their lives untenable at home. The traffic runs, on a massive scale, in the opposite direction, and it has run in the opposite direction for two generations. Muslims, Christians, Yezidis, Baha’is, Ahmadiyyas, ex-Muslims, secularists, feminists, gay men and women, and religious minorities of every description are leaving the Muslim-majority world in millions, and they are coming to Europe and the rest of the West. They come because Europe, whatever else it is, is not governed by the doctrinal architecture they are fleeing. The presence of a European far right that occasionally shouts at them, or, at the violent extreme, produces a Breivik or a Tarrant, has not slowed the movement at all. If the two extremisms were symmetrical, the flow would also be symmetrical. It is not even close. The direction of migration by itself—that is, the votes of feet cast in their tens of millions by the very people who know both worlds—is a stronger empirical statement about the relative danger of the two phenomena than any Home Office report, academic study, or half-baked media essay will ever be.”
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You're looking live at El Niño going "full-tilt" to start meteorological fall. Once in a lifetime event.
Three monster hurricanes in E. Pacific w/Hawaii splitting the uprights.
Moisture from Hurricane Marie is going to inundate U.S. desert Southwest with major monsoon!
Jelly Roll hosted Jimmy Kimmel's show and took aim at Donald Trump. Now he's telling his boycotters to "Go right ahead". Here's some unsolicited advice for Jelly...