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Well here I sit again, reading the garbage spewed forth by the new paper. Notice I didn’t say “The Daily Sentinel”? I am reading the Sentinel, but they are not alone here. The news media in general has turned into a huge disappointment for America. The news is full of half truths and stories twisted and manipulated to satisfy the writers interests, the papers interests or the interest of a particular political group. I have an opinion about the media. They are bald face liars.
The June 4 article regarding Jon Hazard is a good example. Jon Hazard was not convicted of a crime. Jon Hazard’s trial had not begun before he was murdered. Yet the article written in the June 4 paper had conviction written from beginning to end. If they didn’t know any better, any person reading this article would immediately find him guilty regardless of the outcome of a trial. Whatever happened to “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law”? Apparently this doesn’t apply to the news media.
SCOTT NELSON
Colorado Springs
4 Responses to “Media often ignore ‘innocent until proven guilty’”
Posted June 6th, 2009 at 8:05 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
isn’t the old adage ‘bad news sells papers’
Posted June 8th, 2009 at 9:18 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
The letter writer is correct, and something which has been mentioned previously on several occasions, if only by myself. Today, the printed media is in trouble, and not only because of competition from without. Like in many cases (both as individuals and organizations) “We are our own worst enemy.”
By concentrating on what is their true responsibilities of informing and enlightening, and concentrating instead solely on their own “bottom line”, they have pretty much rendered themselves irrelevant.
Like Mr. Nelson, I will read many newspapers but, and especially when reading “opinion” pieces, there is seldom anything of value as it is mostly regurgitation of what has been previously written or said in some other source (even up to and including the same words). We should not expect anything resembling any “original thought.”
Posted June 8th, 2009 at 9:42 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
You need to take it with a grain of salt.
Posted June 8th, 2009 at 4:18 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
aurain: “You need to take it with a grain of salt.”
Far too many things on-line need to be taken with an entire trainload of salt, after which the latter is the most important component of the resultant mish-mash.
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