Ted, > That's how most journalists are. They are professionals......they are taught to leave their biases at home.
Yeah, but in any industry, whether it's journalism, real estate, or semiconductors, when the pressure is on, professionalism sometimes gets tossed out the window.
The thing is that you can recognize unprofessional work from a mile away. You can see it yourself when some real estate agent just does the bare minimum, as you brought up in your story. I can see it myself when I have to take over simulations from some guy who obviously wrote his code in a shoddy manner.
And as a consumer of the news, I can also see how the overall quality of mainstream media has declined. The left-leaning bias I can take, but it's the unprofessionalism that I am complaining about. And I don't care what they were trained to do. I care about the end product, and frankly it stinks.
Tenchusatsu
P.S. - My wife is pursuing her dreams of becoming a journalist by taking courses at UCI and UCLA. I've been doing a lot to support her extracurricular studies, from discussing what she's learned in class, to revising her papers, to even helping her do reporting assignments such as issues relevant to our local community. And I've got to say that the crap that passes for "professional journalism" these days isn't something that I would want for my wife, but I'm going to support her nonetheless in the hopes that things will improve. |
