A person or entity with an obligation to report the news who instead shirks this responsibility and creates false dogmas. Aside from ignorance, reasons include financial gain and self-love.
MediaSlackers.com has been up and running now for a number of months and we have yet to provide a comprehensive background report on the writer of this blog. While there is primarily just one writer of Media Slackers’ material, we also have included and continue to accept material from outside sources. These may include print, radio and television journalists who wish to state fact or opinion without jeopardizing their careers, as well as fellow bloggers and commentators with a common ax to grind. If you would like your critique of mainstream media (both good or bad) to be considered for publication here, just drop us a note or feel free to comment on the post to which you feel most connected.
The material on MediaSlackers.com is a combination of original essays and exposes, as well as commentary, references and discussions of material posted elsewhere on the web, TV, radio and in print.
The primary author of MediaSlackers was raised with a red pen in his rear, as he likes to put it. The son of a career print journalist (writer, editor and photo journalist), he spent much of his youth in the news rooms, composition rooms and darkrooms of newspapers. While his personal journalism career amounts to no more than starting the high school newspaper and writing sports’ briefs for the local daily, he strives to point out journalism’s laudatory achievements and also its transgressions, which can degrade the democracy on which this country was founded. Criticizing technique here is not meant as an affront, so much as a reminder to what the journalist represents. However, other more strongly-worded posts are intended to call out the failures and despicable behavior of so-called journalists and we make no apologies for this.
We are not journalists, we are bloggers and while we may be held to a different set of standards in the eyes of some, we hope our commentary represents the foundation of fair, concise, ethical and balanced material just as the journalists who started this racket.
