Is “journalism” dead?
News, news to show government overreach / needless laws, or just lazy reporting, which is it, you decide. Is “journalism” dead? It is clear to me that often we assume what we read or hear in the news is based on truth or at least some. If it is in writing, it must be accurate. Ordinarily I should concentrate my first blog on the personal property appraising world. However, I was angered on Friday by a news report that I believed to be accurate but turns out to be a “Nothing Burger”. I got so angered by the following story that I called the mayor of Gardendale to express my outrage. (I guess I had nothing better going on for me on Friday!) What I found out made me reevaluate talk radio, as for ABC news, well they don’t count. Their ratings show that they will not be long for this world. On the Dr. Thompson show (stand in for Glen Beck on Friday), a popular conservative talk show host, went on and on about how Gar...