OMG! The GOP Just Learned Something (and Got it Wrong)

[bondwooley]

So... turns out the GOP just figured out what "Factivism" is, and how to pronounce it wrong.

A recent post called “DNC’s Angry Appeal to ‘Become a Factivist’” showed up in the frightening but somehow funny Word Net Daily (WND). The author, Myra Adams, was horrified by “a new frightening buzzword” called factivism and realized that saying it quickly sounds like “fascism.”

Full article and links at Lester & Charlie blog.

[louis-t]

1. Uh, actually, no it doesn't....

[fayhunter]

2. That's a great quote from Murrow

At least journalism used to exist.

But when did it stop?

[FakeNoose]

3. When it became 24/7 info-tainment

It was right about the same time as all the reality TV shows, about 10 years ago.

What happened is that journalism stopped selling the newspapers anymore, and advertising became the king. Nowadays people are even forgetting that there ever was such a thing as good journalism.

[fayhunter]

4. It might also be that

news is no longer curated. Editorials show up as hard news. Anyone with an idea, sane or psychotic, and can find some blog that will publish it and the more insane it is the more people like it.

[bondwooley]

5. As Mark Twain said

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”