Reply #8: The blogs can be much worse [View All]

[PATRICK]

and they don't make it routinely into every newspaper in the nation like the daily fact report sheet. Blogs ARE opinion, like this one and are editorials at best.

Does it have to be more unsubtle to violate the objectivity of reportage edited down to its barest length but still containing obligatory and customary shots that are too routine to keep ignoring.

Example: "Mayor Bill, dressed in his usual expensive audacious suit, battled the flames behind his own beleaguered firemen on the hose line. After a spark hit his suit he yelped and backed off a moment before seizing the hose again a little further down. Afterward a political adviser commented that he wished Bill had taken off the suit and rolled up his sleeves which would have made for a better picture."

The difference between words framing what they want you to see and feel and opinionated analysis might be mainly where it is read but it is more likely to subconsciously pass on a bias, even a squarely dishonest and planned one. You can indeed find far more outrageous things in blogs but it is the falsity of a new media where there is never a question of response if only because the news clips are not supposed to be opinions or even lengthy enough to critique for the hidden points.

Maybe I am too sensitive by this point but this has been unrelenting with many consistent examples for years. Once you pay attention to the small deliberate details it becomes very annoying and less paranoid than it first seemed because of the mere shortness of the digests.