Comments on: Hey David! I Got Your Standards Right Here!

By: steeve

steeve — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:50:14 +0000

The media wasn’t “whitewashed, over balanced, limp, and impotent” during the Clinton years. It’s you trotting out the false balance there. Conservative claims of media bias are unfounded.

By: Cecil Graham

Cecil Graham — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:42:46 +0000

Anyone that takes Hazinski seriously should have their head examined. Hazinski and the rest of the so called journalists of all stripes layed down and played dead while the President lied to us about weapons of mass destruction so that we could invade Iraq. I have no stomach for CBS, CNN, ABC, NBC and not to forget FOX Noise.
I stopped watching them after the 2000 general election was stolen. Im no journalistic scholar but I hate when someone try to piss on my leg and then try to tell me its raining.

Thank God for Bloggers without them it would be like the former Soviet Union redux.

Keep up the good work.

By: Bill Quick

Bill Quick — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:25:16 +0000

And I think an alum of the MSM should be a little careful who he’s waving fingers at (*cough*Dan Rather and the typewriter*cough*Swift Boat Veterans For Truth*cough*).

I know it’s an article of faith (cause it sure ain’t rational) over here on the left that the Swifties’ charges were all outright lies, but just out of curiosity, could you let me know what lies they told? And point me at Kerry’s refutations of them?

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:44:30 +0000

It is very interesting that this guy has mulled over abuses that could, and already have happened, but fails to go the distance and realize what could happen if his own ‘remedies’ were implemented. So, someone would post something like this..

“Since you’re so busy being all professional and can’t come right out and say what you mean, I’ll do it for ya.

Blow me.

And fuck you too!”

Then, under any system this guy would advocate, those that handle the regulation would be knocking on the door. This is a more ominous scene than any he describes. It is really hard to believe that he has lived here as long as he has and can still spout such crap.

By: Plisko

Plisko — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:05:15 +0000

People in glass houses. . . .

By: Chopvac

Chopvac — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:01:38 +0000

Here is the clown's phone and email if you want to tell him what you think and that he isn't thinking:

David Hazinski
xxx-xxx-xxxx [edited out - mt]
hazinski@uga.edu

Use profanity if necessary, but not necessarily profanity.

By: GuitardeKev

GuitardeKev — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:31:52 +0000

I try to keep it simple and avoid trusting any so-called “Journalist” who doesn’t use the work “fuck”. Sunsabitches.

By: Kyle E. Moore

Kyle E. Moore — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:06:03 +0000

God yeah, that was terrible. Seriously, and I think Libby Spencer at the impolitic has it about right. Dude’s peddling his journalism classes in Georgia. Problem is, it’s prolly not wise to insult the people you’re trying to sell too.

By: bastard.logic

bastard.logic — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:06:22 +0000

Monitor And Regulate This, Hazinski…

by matttbastard
Oh yay–yet another swipe at the great unwashed from a self-appointed arbiter of journalistic excellence:
Supporters of “citizen journalism” argue it provides independent, accurate, reliable information that the traditi…

By: matttbastard

matttbastard — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:40:25 +0000

'Professional' standards of excellence certainly didn't stop the Post from running what Michael Tomansky recently called the "single worst piece of political journalism" he's ever read. "• Major news organizations must create standards to substantiate citizen-contributed information and video, and ensure its accuracy and authenticity." Physician, heal thyself.

By: Kyle E. Moore

Kyle E. Moore — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:03:20 +0000

That is instantly bookmarked!

By: matttbastard

matttbastard — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:38:04 +0000

Three words: Regret The Error. (Ooooh, there have been some killer crunks this year!)

By: Another “Old Media” Snob Attacks Citizen Journalists; Cries Out For Regulation

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:14:04 +0000

[...] in (non-partisan, of course), courtesy of MemeOrandum: at-Largely; Captain’s Quarters; QandO; Comments From Left Field (Adult language); Hot Air; Don Surber (Both a “real journalist” AND a “Citizen [...]

By: Kyle E. Moore

Kyle E. Moore — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:21:10 +0000

Agreed. And I think I have to credit missing the irony of Hazinski recognizing snopes to the fact that I was up past midnight writing last night. Good catch!

The most inane aspect of his piece is just how self contradictory it was, and when you step back to look at it, it really has the feel of someone whining because this new entity has popped up, it isn’t bound by the chains the mainstream media is bound by, and it’s getting just as popular.

Thus, he wants tochain us down, regulate us, etc. Well, I’ll tell ya what, if CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, even FNC wants to cut me a contract, they can regulate me all they want. Until that happens, they can all give me a knobber.

That’s jut my feeling on the matter.

By: Dynamic

Dynamic — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:39:46 +0000

I think it telling to note that Hazinski brings up some examples of the abuses of citizen journalism – including the “hundreds of hoaxes” that appear to out there – and then specifically mentions the responses that are already more than effective enough to counter them – snopes.com being the example cited.

Just as mainstream journalists rely on self regulation, so to does the blogosphere have a healthy self-regulating aspect. The profusion of fact-checking sites in recent years can attest to that.

If Mr. Hazinski wants to talk about spreading rumors and uncontrolled opinion posing as journalism, he can investigate Fox News.