DFL FIRES DUD AT DAY
This may be the dumbest press release I have ever read.
If I had the time, which I don't, I'd find numerous examples of DFLers hiring family members to work on their campaign committee. I know Mike Hatch has hired family members to work on his campaigns.
After waving the white flag, I knew it was only a matter of time before the DFL would continue their desperate and dishonest attacks on Republicans.
"If the Republican Party wants to play games, they can go right ahead. While they play at politics, the DFL Party will work at government. We’ll see whose product Minnesota voters are more interested in." Source: DFL Party press release, March 24, 2006
If I had the time, which I don't, I'd find numerous examples of DFLers hiring family members to work on their campaign committee. I know Mike Hatch has hired family members to work on his campaigns.
After waving the white flag, I knew it was only a matter of time before the DFL would continue their desperate and dishonest attacks on Republicans.
"If the Republican Party wants to play games, they can go right ahead. While they play at politics, the DFL Party will work at government. We’ll see whose product Minnesota voters are more interested in." Source: DFL Party press release, March 24, 2006
Tags: DFL, Brian Melendez, David Ruth, Dick Day
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“Ethical Journalism”, and other urban myths.
Judging by the title of this post, “DFL Fires Dud At Day”, the real message of the alleged “story” in the Strib goes unrecognized again.
A press release is issued on Thursday; a “story” is run on Friday morning. What do readers actually know after reading the Strib's story? Readers know that there was an allegation, and a denial, and that’s about it. In other words, this “story” raised more questions than it answered. Here’s my main question I asked after reading this alleged piece of "journalism": "Is there any basis for the allegation of impropriety?" let alone the follow up: “are there any Democrats doing the same thing?”
This “story”, as reported by the Strib, is but one more shoddy example of what passes for journalism these days: "He said; she said" with no real journalism, and any follow-up merely consisting of “more of the same”.
IMNSHO, the Strib should have investigated the issues raised, and then either a) decided there was merit and offered Senator Day an opportunity to respond, or b) decided there was NO merit, and ignore it.
Both options “a)” and "b)", of course, would require actual journalistic effort.
Which, of course, is probably why the Strib went with option c), which is: publish a "he said; she said" article, and who cares if more questions are unanswered than answered? After all, a bomb has exploded, allowing more opportunities for lazy, shoddy journalism!
The c) option, which appears to be the preferred option taken by the vast majority of the media, only encourages more bombs to be tossed. Until ALL parties express their outrage at what passes as “journalism”, we can only expect more bombs to be thrown. Why? The media is going to run with them, regardless of merit.
This type of "journalism" has led to the collapse of credibility of the media.
Tommy Johnson
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