tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post5129119746052854911..comments2023-08-01T04:17:03.628-04:00Comments on Liberal Arts and Minds: It's Not My ImaginationKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291881352139075405noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-57516117480644397642007-10-06T16:20:00.000-04:002007-10-06T16:20:00.000-04:00How that has changedIndeed. I'd like to see some ...<I>How that has changed</I><BR/><BR/>Indeed. I'd like to see some new upstart begin to change the channel. I suppose it gets down to what they are being taught. Surely there is a way to work in a style that fits the contemporary 24 hr. news cycle, while delivering quality. <BR/><BR/>For the record, I had a manual typewriter at one point in time.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04291881352139075405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594727.post-53427550035574076672007-10-05T23:47:00.000-04:002007-10-05T23:47:00.000-04:00As you can tell, I'm working my way down your post...As you can tell, I'm working my way down your posts. Shamed as I may be to admit it, but I was an Ottawa journalist back in the - 60's and early 70's - before I got seduced into going to law school. I'm talking the days of - gasp - Underwood and Remington "manual" typewriters! I was in radio for the advent of the IBM selectric and in TV just before the switch from film to video. What an era.<BR/><BR/>Sad as it is to say, in the "good old days" reporters knew that their job was to be the watchdog of politicians, not their lapdogs. Back then reporters would have - and occasionally did -quit rather than be muzzled by the corporate types.<BR/> <BR/>The public was better informed for it. Those enamoured of the latest and greatest saw their guy dissected, analyzed and critiqued. You were SUPPOSED to criticize. It was the essence of the job. The journalist wasn't supposed to rely on an often feckless opposition to expose the errors of the people in power. <BR/><BR/>How that has changedThe Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.com