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A Quick Rant
There’s plenty of news these days, and plenty of folks who are willing to bring it to you. I have no problem with that; I consider it a positive thing and a good sign for the future, even when the news is bad. We need to know what’s going on, and even if some of the reporting is fallacious – which it surely is, given the multiplicity of sources – over time the facts will be repeatedly confirmed, whereas the deceits will not.
However, I dislike “reporters” whose principal interest is in listening to themselves talk. Too many of our “new journalists” are in love with the sound of their own voices. Accordingly, they’ll take 30 seconds worth of newsworthy facts and string it out into a ten-minute video – and when I say “string it out,” I mean it in the most pejorative sense. Here’s a “good” example. If you can endure the whole thing, you’re a stouter heart than I.
The essence of good reporting is getting the facts out, clearly and concisely. Nothing else matters to the genuine newsman. He doesn’t indulge in verbal arabesques. He doesn’t pound you about how “you’re hearing this nowhere else.” And he doesn’t put commentary (sometimes fan-danced as “analysis”) ahead of the facts; that’s the sin called “burying the lede.”
Forgive me, Gentle Reader. I had to vent. You may now return to your previously scheduled Sunday morning 5:00 AM activities.
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