Can You Connect These Dots?
This was posted yesterday.
I'll hazard a guess that all the pundits and "reporters" don't know there are dots. They take whatever the deep state hands them as "news" and then repeat each other until they get a new batch of propaganda.
Here are the basics of journalism.
1. The practitioners can write, but they are rarely deep thinkers: a Pareto distribution.
2. They are not trained in logic. They pick it up from colleagues.
3. They face deadlines. This is the #2 fact of journalism.
4. Their editors face deadlines. This is the #1 fact of journalism.
5. The bureaucrats provide convenient, superficial explanations (spin).
6. Nobody gets fired for posting the official version.
7. It takes time to dig deeper. (See "deadlines.")
8. It takes brains and logic to dig deeper.
9. It takes background knowledge to dig deeper.
10. It takes time to get this background.
11. The expert in the field is either retired, fired, or in bed with the agency.
I offer you a challenge. Read this story of a New Orleans chef who charges far more to whites than to members of minority groups. Think about it as you read. If you were a reporter, and your editor assigned this investigation to you, what would you ask the chef? What else would you research?
The story is here.
Write down the questions you think the reporter should have asked. Then click the BACK button to get back to this page. Then read my analysis.