Comments on: AP’s New ‘Accountability Journalism’ Is a Sham

By: deguello

deguello — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:55:33 +0000

Accountable to whom? Move On.Org?

By: deguello

deguello — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:54:39 +0000

Excrement wrapped in fancy gift paper, is still excrement.Accountable to whom? Move on .Org? The left always

By: BizzyBlog » Speaking of AP: Looking at the Subscriber Mini-Revolt

BizzyBlog » Speaking of AP: Looking at the Subscriber Mini-Revolt — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:36:02 +0000

[...] read about the wire service’s news brainstorm, “Accountability Journalism,” at this Pajamas Media column by Steve Boriss (”AP’s New ‘Accountability Journalism’ Is a Sham”). Yikes; you [...]

By: BizzyBlog » Things I’d Like to Post About Today ….. (073008, Morning)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:06:57 +0000

[...] fully implements the sham known as accountability journalism. Steve Boriss’s subheadline at his Pajamas Media’s op-ed: “Amidst charges of bias, the AP decides to put even more opinion in its [...]

By: bill

bill — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:10:52 +0000

http://news.iafrica.com/worldnews/1047240.htm

where’s the good old media?

By: Bugs

Bugs — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:26:51 +0000

DonK: In my earlier years as a writer, I thought filing stories with the AP from remote parts of the world sounded pretty romantic. Now it seems a bit sleazy. I know I’ve changed since then; guess the AP has, too.

By: Advocacy Journalism :: New MediaTheory

Advocacy Journalism :: New MediaTheory — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:38:51 +0000

[...] others in positions of power accountable to what the journalist ‘knows to be true’. Here is Stoss’ summation. Accountability journalism is about holding politicians accountable to [...]

By: If partisanship doesn’t kill the AP, it will just make them stronger « The Future of News

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:46:52 +0000

[...] make them stronger 7/27/08 Posted by Steve Boriss in AP. trackback My most recent article on PajamasMedia is a cautionary tale about being careful what you wish for — you just might get it. For all [...]

By: ACLU Hates Boy Scouts, Love Hypocrisy : Stop The ACLU

ACLU Hates Boy Scouts, Love Hypocrisy : Stop The ACLU — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:52:08 +0000

[...] is speculation on my part. Instead of speculation we’ll call it Accountability journalism, like the AP, that way the ACLU can be held accountable to [...]

By: John Moore

John Moore — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:24:28 +0000

This is really nothing than another ideology to allow journalists to do what they’ve been doing for a few decades. They now constitute a self-serving elite and this gives them the excuse to use their opinions openly in the news pages. In a way, it may be better, because it makes the biases of the reporters more obvious.

In 2004, when I was involved in the veterans movement against Kerry, I found how how biased the media really was. And to my surprise, in communications with journalistic opinion makers, I discovered that they had not problem with that. The term “citizen journalism” is another misnomer they use – it means journalists user their positions to “improve society” – i.e. propagandize for their causes.

Like so many institutions in America, journalism has been corrupted by a combination of elitist attitudes and left-wing ideologues.

We really need a system more like England’s. Tabloids on all sides, with the biases up front and part of the brand.

In a way, the tabloid parts of Fox News and CNN Headline now operate that way.