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Dan Rather To Teach Journalism Course Called "Finding The Truth In The News"

Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 11 months ago to Humor
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Laughed out loud when I saw that title.
Methinks Deceiver Dan deserves the Humor category.
Maybe "Media" shoulda been a category.
Naw, Humor covers that.


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  • Posted by rbroberg 8 years, 11 months ago
    Dan is so deep. Let's smoke peyote and read the NYT. If we don't get vomit on the pages, then I am sure some of the words will dance.
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  • Posted by NealS 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No, for the article to be truthful it would have read, "re-learning". Re-learning is what our universities are teaching our children about history. If it doesn't fit their agenda, they change it, and the students re-learn it to the professors specification.
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  • Posted by NealS 8 years, 11 months ago
    What's the issue with this article? It was just a simple typo that made it appear wrong. It said, "The course is being offered by the e-learning platform UDemy, which hosts more than 42,000 online courses." Where it said "e-learning", was just a typo, it was supposed to read "re-learning".
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  • Posted by $ 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Quite often I'll watch the opening of O'Reilly and Judge Jeannie. Then when both finish and start to talk to pundits about what they just said to be "fair and balanced," channel surfing away I'll go,
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    they try to be "fair and balanced", but news is news, and shouldnt be anything but straight up reporting of what happened. I am a big boy and can figure out what it means without their pundits telling me
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 8 years, 11 months ago
    LOL! Just goes to show that the liberal media will try anything. Maybe we could get Meryl Streep to give him an award for Best Fake News Reporter.
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    mm, maybe thats the answer. I already deleted CNN from my car radio channels, and I never watch or listen to CNBC or MSNBC or any other mainstream channel. Fox is better, but they sensationalize things to get me to waste my time listening too
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  • Posted by $ 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It can go beyond that. The popular vote thought the so obvious for a corrupt evil hag can do no wrong.
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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years, 11 months ago
    famous or in his case infamous people do not think they can do no wrong.
    allosaur you are very right!
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I wonder if most of the "news" really affects my life. Perhaps the media is just trying to drum up advertising business by convincing me I need to pay attention to all this stuff. I mean, really, why do I care if a terrorist act happened in afghanistan anyway.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It is doubtful that laws would improve things much. The problem is that most people go into teaching because they couldn't hack it in the real world. And liberals especially love to tell others how superior their policies are - without having to face the proof of consequences as exposed in the real world. It's the same reason you don't find too many small business owners who are flaming liberals because they quickly find out the math behind a $15/hour minimum wage makes staying in business really hard.

    The real problem is that now everyone has tacitly accepted that the college degree is a standard need for employment. Educators (and government) have colluded to manufacture a market for higher education. And they've put in a very convincing marketing campaign to persuade businesses that they should only hire a college-educated person, and the government-run lower (k-12) education that they need to push kids to get ready to go to college.

    A century ago, the only people who went to college were those trying to get advanced education such as that needed for business, the legal profession, or the medical profession. Everyone else did an apprenticeship - learning on the job. People actually became experts in their profession of choice (apprentices -> journeymen -> masters) by doing the job. Diplomas somehow became accepted as a shortcut to certify that someone who came out of school could do the same thing minus the experience!

    I'd like to see the education system go back to emphasizing actual experience rather than simply encourage the entitlement brought on by a piece of paper. (And just FYI, but I have the pieces of paper...)
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 11 months ago
    I am not sure that I really need all the media and what they report. Its all slanted anyway, and I have to "translate" it to even attempt to get the truth.
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Political orientation" is a nice phrase. Maybe it should be added to the anti-discrimination laws. :-)
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  • Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If he wants to find the truth, he first needs to admit that he was never interested in it in the first place.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We could only hope such is the case. Most universities are full of liberals. A recent survey put professor political orientation at 97% Democrat nationwide.
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