February 18, 2013
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Don’t ever read “The Atlantic Wire”
I actually do read news from the liberal media most of the time, especially since I get most of my news off of Yahoo, but this group called “The Atlantic Wire” goes way to far. They are the most sloppy and unprofessional news outlet I have ever seen. When I read it I can’t tell if it’s a blog or a news. When I read blogs I’m OK with people being open with their biases, but I expect news articles to be atonal. Look at this:
Once asked if congressional law could stop the president from authorizing interrogators to crush the testicles of a detainee’s child, Yoo responded, “I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.” Yoo as critic of executive overreach reaches new heights of hypocrisy.
–Whether or not the author thinks this guy is a hypocrite is irrelevant. When I’m reading the news I can usually tell which side the author is on, but that doesn’t mean it is OK for them to blurt out their opinions and emotions like that. How is that news? How is that profesional?
Poor naive Mitt Romney. This government outsider thinks you actually pass laws in Washington! But he is right about one thing: Immigration reform would never pass a Republican-controlled Senate.
–This segment is dripping with the author’s emotions. Sun Tsu said never to let your enemies see your emotions, and when you post in something like a public news outlet and wantonly display your emotions like that then your enemies are going to see. For example, I have seen this, and now I have less respect for this author and news source, and I am actively working to reduce the amount of views they will get as a result. Condescending statements have no place in a news article. Editorials and blogs are for opinion, news is SUPPOSED to be for facts. If I want someone’s opinion I will read an editorial or blog. I expect the news to be news, and the reporter’s opinion is not relevant to the news, it’s just slag which gets in the way of the story. Also, there is no call for putting an exclamation mark ANYWHERE in a news article. We don’t want to hear your emotions or emphasis, just tell us what happened and keep your emotions to yourself. What a clown.
The Atlantic’s James Fallows has written extensively about Senate Republicans abuse of the filibuster since they’ve been in the minority for the last six years. Fallows writes:
–Now he is openly outing the bias of his entire organization. Maybe liberals enjoy this kind of “reporting” but I just find it irritating.
Once upon a time, Fallows told On the Media, it took 67 votes to break a filibuster, but the filibuster had to be real
–Seriously? So is this a kids story book now? Do I really need to explain how juvanile and inappropriate it is to begin any part of a news article with “once upon a time”? After that I just stopped reading. Yahoo has been posting articles from “The Atlantic Wire” from time to time, which is how I found out about them. If you ever come across an article by them the best thing to do is immediately hit the back button.
Here is the article I took my excerpts from: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/06/obama-vs-senate-republicans-who-hates-constitution-more/53652/
Yes, I know I use derisive adjectives and sarcasm in my blog from time to time, but the thing is, this is a blog. Blogs and editorials are where you are supposed to display your opinion. News articles are supposed to have standards. They are supposed to convey the news, and that’s it. Any opinions and sarcasm are totally inappropriate for a news article.
I actually trained in journalism for about a year when I was in college. Originally I was going to go into it, but then I changed my mind. However, as a result I tend to hold journalists to journalist standards, and people like that (Atlantic Wire) fall miserably short. I don’t know how they even graduates from school without understanding the difference between news and editorials.
Comments (5)
We live in a nation of clowns. That’s how Democrats won the Senate and the Presidency.
While I agree that The Atlantic is loaded with “leftist” fascist asswipery, there’s plenty of “rightist” GOP-oriented idiocy out there to match it. What we’ve got is incremental tyranny in stereo.
Besides, if you don’t read their articles, how are you supposed to ridicule them?
What I try to avoid is paying for their content. Serves ‘em right if they don’t get any cash from me – they seem to think that my earnings are really theirs, by way of legislation.
@PlatotheSmurf - That and election fraud.
@mikewb1971 - Well I also want their pageviews to drop. There are less extreme left wing news outlets that can be ridiculed.
There are some bloggers for the right that are pretty forceful (such as myself), but I have yet to see any news publications that go to that level. Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places.
Haha, yes. Parasites should have to work for a living.
@Ambrosius_Augustus_Rex – An easy way to get around giving them pageviews is to read it at the local library or bookstore. Barnes & Noble and Hastings usually have places where you can take notes with a pocket notebook.