News reporting is not like what it used to be back in the 40’s and 50’s. Those were the days when it was common to see a journalist with a press card in the hat and a foot in the door getting the, who, what, when, where and why of a story without any worries about offending the advertiser or producing a contradictory story to the spin given by corporate and government communication departments.
Today’s journalists when reporting on the salient news have to rely on the information that is provided to them by communications officers who are all well trained in the science of public conscious and the art of persuasion in influencing public thinking. Modern communications officers will not directly answer any questions that are outside the prepared script. Unfortunately, this places the journalist at a disadvantage to get to the actual facts over the spin version of the facts, and as a result, regardless of the integrity of the journalist, it is impossible to get the “True News”.
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