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Puh – lease. I am embarrassed for SC. The most widely read political blog in SC advertises itself as ‘news’. Not according to professional news standards.This is op ed of an obvious politico. Real news organizations puts propaganda like this (well, better written – opinions that assign ‘feelings’ and intent to opponents are amateurs) under op ed/opinion section. I guess the Limited Government pays FITS to run these pieces. I’m not a member of any political or beverage party. I’m not hypnotized by any of them. Why doesn’t FITS admit this site is really “My Best Buzz for Republicans” or something political?”
Cuz us SC dummies dunno the difference between real news and somebody’s political position, we so stupid we think it’s news what them thar politicial parties say about our court rulings. Hell we gonna vote Sanford in again, that’s how we roll, we jus pray and then we follow the personal opinion of politicos like this Manning feller. Mus be true it’s on that thar ‘news’ site.
Fess up FITS so I can stop holding you to real news standards. Is your intent to be news real, or are you just laughing all the way to the bank?
Apparently you didn’t bother to read the letterhead. It’s made very clear that this is a blog and makes no effort to be unbiased. You must be new in town.
Well then news is a misnomer, isn’t it.
No, the “news” part isn’t a misnomer – you’re a twit.
Exactly what did (God I can’t believe I’m defending Fits here) Fits get wrong? Factually, not a blessed thing. Does he perhaps infer to much? Maybe, but based on his clearly stated lust for attention – Folks and company get it right at least as often as the mainstream media. He’s never pretended to be more than a blogger – other than “unbiased” what are you pretending to be?
If you don’t like his style, CNN and NBCNews are waiting…
Seems you didn’t consider the issues on which I base my assessment. Per professional journalism and media development organizations , the issues of blogs ‘reporting’ news isn’t as simplistic as you might want it to be. You’d have to explore their references to get the full picture.
FITS ‘about’ page advertises ’simple commitment to the truth’.
Truth means different things to different
readers. For instance, do you mean what facts did FITS get wrong, what unwarranted
inferences, what unfounded conclusions did the writers jump to? (too
many to list, see postings from myself and other readers on the
inaccuracies in pieces).
Your definition of truth appears to be relative to other media outlets. Mine isn’t. I practice (not always successfully) critical reading.
Also, non-critical readers see ‘facts’ differently then critical readers.
http://www.criticalreading.com/critical_reading.htm
FITS has, in my opinion, a competitive advantage with a delicously irreverent writer’s view. But unfair
and imbalanced doesn’t have to mean crappy writing and simplistically dumb ‘conclusions’. FITS can have the irreverent view and bias (not to be confused with writer bias that impedes good writing) without resorting to poor writing that confuse
unfounded emotional speculation as conclusions of fact and use stacked unwarranted inferences.
Second, to your assertion FITS never pretended to be more than a blogger, that’s not true. Even if true, see promise of ’simple truth’ above. Many of FITS pieces (I can’t say if this is true of the past few weeks) assert investigation. Blogging is one activity. Investigation is another. Reporting news is another.
It appears you agree that being a blog means FITS doesn’t have to deliver on promises of ’simple truth’, investigation, writers can make up their own news and they don’t need solid writing and data integrity. I’m not one of those readers. I expect blogs that advertise news and ‘truth’ to deliver. There are TONS of blogs that do.
The blog part isn’t an issue. It’s how FITS misleads readers by claiming to publish ‘news’ and investigations without meeting standards of either. Misleading readers under the umbrella of ‘blog’ is the practice of a shyster. The journalism industry is addressing this very issue (you can do the research yourself) with lots of education, training, and seminars offered to improve lack of professionalism in blogs purporting to do ‘news’ and investigation. FITS has asserted a ‘crack investigative team’. There’s no ‘exemption’ from the professional standards of investigative journalism just because somebody publishes a blog, it’s just that these standards aren’t enforceable. Of course FITS owners, as private blog, are legally allowed to mislead. That doesn’t mean it’s ethical – especially for a blog advertising as news. But for buyers (readers) to beware, they have to know. If FITS isn’t intending to mislead, then the owners should publish a statement admitting they know they aren’t publishing to professional standards.
Puh – lease. I am embarrassed for SC. The most widely read political blog in SC advertises itself as ‘news’. Not according to professional news standards.This is op ed of an obvious politico. Real news organizations puts propaganda like this (well, better written – opinions that assign ‘feelings’ and intent to opponents are amateurs) under op ed/opinion section. I guess the Limited Government pays FITS to run these pieces. I’m not a member of any political or beverage party. I’m not hypnotized by any of them. Why doesn’t FITS admit this site is really “My Best Buzz for Republicans” or something political?”
Cuz us SC dummies dunno the difference between real news and somebody’s political position, we so stupid we think it’s news what them thar politicial parties say about our court rulings. Hell we gonna vote Sanford in again, that’s how we roll, we jus pray and then we follow the personal opinion of politicos like this Manning feller. Mus be true it’s on that thar ‘news’ site.
Fess up FITS so I can stop holding you to real news standards. Is your intent to be news real, or are you just laughing all the way to the bank?
Apparently you didn’t bother to read the letterhead. It’s made very clear that this is a blog and makes no effort to be unbiased. You must be new in town.
Well then news is a misnomer, isn’t it.
No, the “news” part isn’t a misnomer – you’re a twit.
Exactly what did (God I can’t believe I’m defending Fits here) Fits get wrong? Factually, not a blessed thing. Does he perhaps infer to much? Maybe, but based on his clearly stated lust for attention – Folks and company get it right at least as often as the mainstream media. He’s never pretended to be more than a blogger – other than “unbiased” what are you pretending to be?
If you don’t like his style, CNN and NBCNews are waiting…
Seems you didn’t consider the issues on which I base my assessment. Per professional journalism and media development organizations , the issues of blogs ‘reporting’ news isn’t as simplistic as you might want it to be. You’d have to explore their references to get the full picture.
FITS ‘about’ page advertises ’simple commitment to the truth’.
Truth means different things to different
readers. For instance, do you mean what facts did FITS get wrong, what unwarranted
inferences, what unfounded conclusions did the writers jump to? (too
many to list, see postings from myself and other readers on the
inaccuracies in pieces).
Your definition of truth appears to be relative to other media outlets. Mine isn’t. I practice (not always successfully) critical reading.
Also, non-critical readers see ‘facts’ differently then critical readers.
http://www.criticalreading.com/critical_reading.htm
FITS has, in my opinion, a competitive advantage with a delicously irreverent writer’s view. But unfair
and imbalanced doesn’t have to mean crappy writing and simplistically dumb ‘conclusions’. FITS can have the irreverent view and bias (not to be confused with writer bias that impedes good writing) without resorting to poor writing that confuse
unfounded emotional speculation as conclusions of fact and use stacked unwarranted inferences.
Second, to your assertion FITS never pretended to be more than a blogger, that’s not true. Even if true, see promise of ’simple truth’ above. Many of FITS pieces (I can’t say if this is true of the past few weeks) assert investigation. Blogging is one activity. Investigation is another. Reporting news is another.
It appears you agree that being a blog means FITS doesn’t have to deliver on promises of ’simple truth’, investigation, writers can make up their own news and they don’t need solid writing and data integrity. I’m not one of those readers. I expect blogs that advertise news and ‘truth’ to deliver. There are TONS of blogs that do.
The blog part isn’t an issue. It’s how FITS misleads readers by claiming to publish ‘news’ and investigations without meeting standards of either. Misleading readers under the umbrella of ‘blog’ is the practice of a shyster. The journalism industry is addressing this very issue (you can do the research yourself) with lots of education, training, and seminars offered to improve lack of professionalism in blogs purporting to do ‘news’ and investigation. FITS has asserted a ‘crack investigative team’. There’s no ‘exemption’ from the professional standards of investigative journalism just because somebody publishes a blog, it’s just that these standards aren’t enforceable. Of course FITS owners, as private blog, are legally allowed to mislead. That doesn’t mean it’s ethical – especially for a blog advertising as news. But for buyers (readers) to beware, they have to know. If FITS isn’t intending to mislead, then the owners should publish a statement admitting they know they aren’t publishing to professional standards.
It’s going to be “print, print, and print some more” till it no longer works. Who knows how long that will take…I’d be surprised to see it go 10 years…but it’s certainly a grand experiment.
It’s going to be “print, print, and print some more” till it no longer works. Who knows how long that will take…I’d be surprised to see it go 10 years…but it’s certainly a grand experiment.