Althouse: "Reporters labor under the terrible requirement that what they report must be true. Opinion writers need to endure the less stringent demand..."

২০ মার্চ, ২০১৮

"Reporters labor under the terrible requirement that what they report must be true. Opinion writers need to endure the less stringent demand..."

"... that what they opine be at least plausible. Nobody ever expects what cartoonists do to be either true or even plausible. That’s why we’re all as happy as larks."

Said Robert Grossman, who lied implausibly about Nixon, Bush, etc. etc. and tied the airplane in a knot in the "Airplane!" movie poster, quoted in his NYT obituary. He was 76.

Asked whether there was something undignified about his caricatures, he said: "Undignified?... Virtually anything has more dignity than lying and blundering before the whole stupefied world, which seems to be the politician’s eternal role."

১৩টি মন্তব্য:

rhhardin বলেছেন...: Trump raging in weekend tweets, for example. Rather than coolly setting the table.; ২০/৩/১৮, ৭:১২ AM
PJ বলেছেন...: The origin of fake news is cartoonist envy?; ২০/৩/১৮, ৭:১৭ AM
BarrySanders20 বলেছেন...: Those funny cartoonists. Not lying always, but when they do, always lying in the same direction. Even items critical of someone like Hillary are in the service of a greater leftist like Barack or Bernie.; ২০/৩/১৮, ৭:২৬ AM
Fernandinande বলেছেন...: "Reporters labor under the terrible requirement that what they report must be true."

"Nobody ever expects what cartoonists do to be either true or even plausible."

The second sentence explains the first.; ২০/৩/১৮, ৭:৩৩ AM
Ignorance is Bliss বলেছেন...: Reporters labor under the terrible requirement that what they report must be true.

NYTimes v. Sullivan proves otherwise.

Opinion writers need to endure the less stringent demand that what they opine be at least plausible.

NYTimes opinion page proves otherwise.; ২০/৩/১৮, ৭:৩৪ AM
I'm Full of Soup বলেছেন...: এই মন্তব্যটি লেখক দ্বারা সরানো হয়েছে।; ২০/৩/১৮, ৭:৪৬ AM
I'm Full of Soup বলেছেন...: I wish they would bring back reporters but they are extinct. Now we have nothing but well credentialed but very dopey journalists and almost all of them are bigtime libruls.; ২০/৩/১৮, ৭:৪৭ AM
Larry J বলেছেন...: "Reporters labor under the terrible requirement that what they report must be true."

Depending on how you define the word "true".; ২০/৩/১৮, ৭:৫২ AM
Hagar বলেছেন...: Endure? Need to endure?; ২০/৩/১৮, ৭:৫৯ AM
tcrosse বলেছেন...: Think of the terrible requirements that carpenters, plumbers, and electricians must labour under, and the less stringent demands that doctors and lawyers must endure.; ২০/৩/১৮, ৮:১৬ AM
Otto বলেছেন...: Luke 6:41 - "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
IMHO the genius of that verse is the size of wood. We all think everyone else's sin is so much worse that ours. But Jesus turns the table just to emphasize that point.; ২০/৩/১৮, ৯:২১ AM
PB বলেছেন...: Reporters, opinion writers, but what about "journalists"? They seem to be a mix of the two and claim to be the high priests whose motives can't be questioned.

Reporters don't really exist anymore.; ২০/৩/১৮, ১১:০৪ AM
Darkisland বলেছেন...: Here's an exercise for everyone here:

In your lifetime you will probably have seen 1-2, maybe more, newspaper article about something on which you have first hand knowledge because you were there. Or maybe something in your field of expertise.

How many of those articles had at least one significant factual error?

In my life it has been everu single one.

And yet we still think they are right on other stuff.

See Gell-Mann effect for more info.

John Henry; ২০/৩/১৮, ১১:৫৬ AM