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Chicago Tribune Reporters Don't Want Readers' Pre-Approval
theodp writes "Irked by the Marketing department's solicitation of subscribers' opinions on stories before they were published, 55 reporters and editors at the Chicago Tribune signed an e-mail demanding the practice be stopped. 'It is a fundamental principle of journalism that we do not give people outside the newspaper the option of deciding whether or not we should publish a story, whether they be advertisers, politicians or just regular readers,' the e-mail read."
The News is used by many later as historical references to past events. It is important that there be as little to no biases or inaccuracies and especially as few opinions. Lately, people have forgotten the importance of "News Neutrality" where media such as Fox is clearly attempting to take a side. While it is "ok" for regular people to take a side, it is absolutely sacrilegious for the news to do this even when it is in the form of omission such as Fox's refusal to show Obama's addresses.
To an extent, the news needs to take their readers for granted. And if people say "I can't believe you published that garbage" that's fine... quite often, readership increases when the material is disagreeable. Howard Stern exists on the air because he makes many people angry and uncomfortable.
And I think it is generally and universally disapproved of for the news media to use its position to spread propaganda... yet, for those who agree with it, they don't realize that it is even propaganda to begin with.
> The real problem is that liberals can't own up to the fact that rest of > the cable news clique panders to their political sensibilities. Do you define "liberals" to mean people who want only Pentagon operatives to analyze foreign conflicts on TV? The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/21/pulitzer/ Pentagon military analyst program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_military_analyst_program http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pentagon_military_analyst_program Y'gotta love the United States, where Barack Obama is considered a socialist and corporate media is considered liberal.