{"id":3570,"date":"2010-10-04T22:24:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T02:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2010-10-04T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T02:24:18","slug":"pond-scum-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3570","title":{"rendered":"Pond Scum Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://andiroberts.com/leadership-myths/">https://andiroberts.com/leadership-myths/</a> I don&#8217;t blog about TV journalism because I hardly watch TV anymore. But I know what I&#8217;m missing on CNN and Fox News, which David Rothkopf reaffirms with this meta <a href=\"http:\/\/rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2010\/10\/04\/the_best_thing_rick_sanchez_ever_did_was_leave\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/02\/business\/media\/02cnn.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Sanchez<\/a> firing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/press-releases/">https://dinoeliadis.com/press-releases/</a> The problem with CNN is in fact <em>not <\/em>that they failed to fire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sporifice\/3170462725\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sanchez<\/a> more explicitly for his anti-Semitism, nor is it that they did not fire him sooner. The problem with CNN is that they hired him in the first place. Just as it is a problem that they thought it appropriate to hire <a href=\"http:\/\/parkerspitzer.blogs.cnn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eliot Spitzer<\/a> for his own show when at least 50 percent of the fame they are cashing in on is tied to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/03\/23\/eliot-spitzer-kept-on-bla_n_92946.html\" target=\"_blank\">predilection <\/a>for prostitutes. Just as it is a problem that they <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2010-09-08\/entertainment\/morgan.replaces.king_1_president-jon-klein-british-tv-host-cnn-international?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ\" target=\"_blank\">hired<\/a> Piers Morgan to replace Larry King. Now admittedly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pxZT-Jh_Esg\" target=\"_blank\">King<\/a> was no pillar of journalism. He was not even a molehill of journalism. That being said, he attempted to be no more than he was, a living Smithsonian exhibit about the nature of old time radio. But Morgan, known best to Americans for his appearances as a judge on a show that would embarrass the worst burlesque circuits of the 1920s, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2010-09-08\/entertainment\/morgan.replaces.king_1_president-jon-klein-british-tv-host-cnn-international?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ\" target=\"_blank\">America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/a>,&#8221; is skimmed from the pond-scum floating atop journalism&#8217;s shallowest waters. He is a former editor of Britain&#8217;s <em>News of the World<\/em> and the <em>Daily Mirror<\/em>, newspapers that make the <em>National Enquirer<\/em> look like the <em>Paris Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/camce5/">https://worklivelaos.com/camce5/</a> I don&#8217;t blog about TV journalism because I hardly watch TV anymore. But I know what I&#8217;m missing on CNN and Fox News, which David Rothkopf reaffirms with this meta commentary on the Rick Sanchez firing: The problem with CNN is in fact not that they failed to fire Sanchez more explicitly for his anti-Semitism,&#8230;<span> <a href="https://andiroberts.com/emotional-intelligence/">https://andiroberts.com/emotional-intelligence/</a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3570\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2790],"tags":[1250],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}