Volatile Essence: Sometimes, journalists shouldn't tweet.

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TerryMoran Terry Moran
#Gadhafi is dead, Libyan state television says. He wrecked his country, murdered thousands, stole billions. A monster. Don’t RIP.


Gaddafi is a son-of-a-bitch. I, in my position as a non-journalist, can say this.
Moran, as an anchor, is not in the…

I think it’s just the opposite. People think journalists are a joke precisely because they feign a phony objectiveness. We all know journalists have a slant, because human beings have a slant. Every single one of us. If a journalist wants my respect, he or she just needs to be honest and up-front about what their slant is. 

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  1. volatileessence reblogged this from thunderdolt and added:
    It was a “fucking” tweet in a fucking public place in which he is fucking known as a fucking journalist. It fucking...
  2. thunderdolt reblogged this from froggeek and added:
    It was from his twitter account. Not from a commercially-sponsored place which we go to get objective news.I suppose if...
  3. cocktailstraw said: I agree. It’s different when you have a chance to see human reaction live - like Dianne Sawyer saying “Oh my God” as she saw the 2nd plane hit on 9/11. We don’t need to see newsies as reporting robots, I just don’t want to know they have agendas.
  4. froggeek reblogged this from volatileessence and added:
    Oh, I agree that what Moran said was crude, and actually pretty hateful. And it certainly doesn’t reflect well on him as...
  5. slightlyundead said: This is why I read Reuters for news. At least no detectable slant. This is very unprofessional.
  6. kallixti said: I’m offended by very little, but celebrating someone’s murder is somewhere on that list.
  7. volatileessence posted this