Re: Re[2]: FW: News Media and How to Deceive

[Michael Mokrzycki <Michael_Mokrzycki@ap.org>]

I humbly submit that boycotting reporters would not be the most effective
way to educate them and get your point of view across in the general media.

Not to dismiss anyone's horror stories, but I know many reporters and
editors who would not under any circumstance sacrifice truth and fairness
to make a story more "newsy," and who are horrified by anyone who would.

Heck, sometimes reporters even subscribe to lists like RADSAFE to try to
learn something.

My personal opinions only.

Mike Mokrzycki
Associated Press
New York





bobscottchp@juno.com (Robert A Scott) on 08/19/98 03:10:30 PM

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     WE ALL SHOULD SAY TO THE MEDIA, "NO INTERVIEWS."   NO MATTER WHAT
THE HISTORY OF ONE REPORTER OR ONE EDITOR, WITH A POSITIVE REPORT, IF WE
ALL BOYCOTTED THE MEDIA, AND MADE THAT KNOWN AS A POSITION, UNTIL THE
MEDIA MEMBERS VOWED TO POLICE THEMSELVES ON ISSUES OF INTEGRITY (would
that ever happen?  I doubt it), WE MIGHT MAKE A DENT IN THIS WALL OF
OBFUSCATION.  BUT I SUSPECT IT WOULD BE WELL INTO THE LATTER HALF OF THE
NEXT CENTURY BEFORE WE SAW RESULTS.  UNTIL THAT HAPPENS, WE WHO CONTINUE
TO HOPE IN AN HONEST REPORT WILL HAVE A LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNG WAIT.
OTHER GROUPS PUBLISH THEIR OWN INFORMATION RATHER THAN RELYING ON THE
NEWS MEDIA.  OR PERHAPS PAID INFORMATON IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE.

from Bob Scott
Roger Williams Medical Center
bobscottchp@juno.com

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 Ron L. Kathren writes:

............................  of the unethical and illegal release of
names.  I guess what floors me in all this is that she was awarded a
Pulitzer.

But there is an important message in what Ruth says, and it has been
butressed by my own experience: some but by no means all members of the
media cannot be trusted to be objective and honest.  Regrettably, there
is
little that can be done to repair the damage that these irresponsible and
unprofessional media persons have done.

Ron Kathren




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