http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/02/ignoring.parishilton.ap/index.html My initial reaction is no, but I'm not sure what it woudl be if it was some other item I was actually interested in. I never took any Journalism Ethics classes, so I don't really know if this was ever addressed.
It wouldn't faze me for a second, nay, a nanosecond if I never saw another news story that serves no purpose other than to keep me up to date with the doings of "popular culture( ) celebrities" honestly what impact do their doings have on my daily life? NONE why should we care about them? We shouldn't I say bravo AP report fairly and accurately about real news stories and leave the celebrity gossip for the Inquirer and the other supermarket tabloids (like it used to be) Between the print tabloids and the internet and the E network, I think they have it covered for the people shallow enough to actually give a crap about these wastes of space and time.
I'm glad AP is taking a stance on Paris Hilton and covering celebutantes who are famouse for no other reason than they are famouse. At the sametime though I am troubled by it. AP's own decision not to cover someone and to even presume that this may have some affect on news cycles shows to what extent the media really does create the news. Like Paris Hilton or not when Paris Hilton gets arrested that is an objective fact. Not reporting it is a subjective decision.
Everything reporters report is to some degree subjective, there is no way news agency can report every news. By picking which news to report the agencies are putting bias in the news cycle, not there is anything wrong with that.
But determining what is "news" is by definition subjective. You stating that Paris Hilton is "news" and the AP deciding that it's not report-worthy are equally subjective beliefs.
I really don't care what celebrities do, and I am sick of the "news flash" every single day that certain actor or model got drunk last night, and who's dating whom. But on the other hand, this AP announcement is just pretentious advertisement. They shouldn't report such "news" at the first place. If they want to stop now, they should just stop, rather than pretend how professional they are. For those tabloids, they have their own followers. It's not something AP needs to worry about.
The exact same thing could be said about every sporting event ever held. But sports appeal to adult men, where as pop culture appeals to women and young people, so it's naturally less important.
Who cares if AP banned all Paris Hilton coverage. The bigger question that needs to be answered is.... WHY IS PARIS HILTON NEWSWORTHY AT ALL?????
I never remember urging that someone be banned, but this is beyond the pale. Would someone tell me how to put someone on the ignore list? or how to contact the administrators to complain? Urgent!
Pouhe is expressing an opinion that you don't agree with but I don't see why you are so upset about it?
exactly i can understand what he is saying. dont completely agree with what he is saying about the old man part. but anyone with half a brain has thought about sports and truly how trivial it really is. nothing to get angry about though.
News bias is everywhere. Look at Fox News from 2003-2006. More presidential protein stains on their clothes than Monica Lewinsky's dress. CNN not much better.
I appreciate both Sishir Chang's and peleincubus's accommodating my voice; but both my low post count and that red basketball in the upper-left hand corner pretty much make glynch's argument for him. The forum isn't free and the donations are primarily meant to support sports conversation, and the forum owners are sports journalists, so yeah, what I said, in context of the venue, was pretty stupid and uncalled for. Apologies to glynch, Clutch & staff, donors and anyone else who was offended or insulted.
I am glad someone decided to take a stand and quit thinking that this little anti-semitic, racist, bigotted skank w**** is news worthy. Paris " I'm just a little too rich to be PWT" Hilton is not freaking news.
And sports coverage has its place, that is why it has a dedicated segment of just a few minutes in news programs, and it's own section far back in a newspapaer. But when tabloid level "news" dominates our so-called "serious" news programs, it is a TOTAL and COMPLETE waste. Sports are almost never in the top three or four stories on a news program. unless something bad happens related to a sporting event or the Superbowl (hideously overhyped) if the young girls and the young metrosexual males want to know what Hillary or Paris is doing or screwing or who's marrying who or divorcing who or whatever, tune into E or any other ridiculous basic cable channel that covers it exclusively, let us adults pay attention to what matters on real news shows.
