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Businesses have an equal responsibility to the environment.  In the quest to “take while you can and no thought of the future,” businesses have seen profits and then folded when the heat was on due to illegal acts. (Take your pick or examine the coal mining business.) With multiple sites on the net that promote awareness to the environment and how beautiful it is, plus the benefits of reduce, reuse, recycle – why, oh why are profits still so important?  Are businesses banks?  Nope. They just want a piece of the pie and willing to justify a means to an end.

The other day a question was presented, something to the effect of “why the wardrobe was not updated?”  In order to “update,” there is a need to go to the businesses and promote the abuse on nature and people.  The stories of sweat shops and environmental disasters, have not been forgotten.  Should the improvements of conditions, and abolishment, of forced labor disappear – sure there would be a desire to “update” the wardrobe.

What does this all mean?

Businesses rely on people being forgetful and are happy to have no attention given when a scandal breaks out.  Has there been any other news about the peanuts issue at the Georgia plant?  Has there been any other news about the soda factors in China causing environmental issues?

The laundry list of business as usual, even within government, is a long “who done it and got away with it.”  Individuals have been distracted with a divide and conquer scheme to test the stress limits.  (Raise of hands from those that are not stressing?  Raise of hands who aren’t?)  While the stress is equally felt (an assumption that is seen on the faces out in public)- the need exists for all individuals to remember, cutting corners is dangerous.  The organic bodies health is at stake, plus the environment – that which gives all life.  Before shopping for convenience, remember the facts; it boils down to still driving the status quo or not.

Article of Interest from the news:  Business urged to protect nature; Unilever a model, from Reuters, by Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, October 22, 2009

Update for Article of Interest from the news: Poll: Americans’ belief in global warming cools, from the Associated Press, by Dina Cappiello, October 22, 2209    good quote from the article: “The priority that people give to pollution and environmental concerns and a whole host of other issues is down because of the economy and because of the focus on other things,” said Andrew Kohut…”

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Journalism use to be about getting the facts and reporting it to the main street markets.  The journalism rule, as far as I can tell the golden rule, (rule number 1, and there are many more after it)

“…in 1923…, by the American Society of Newspaper Editors: “Sound practice makes clear distinction between news reports and expressions of opinion. News reports should be free from opinion or bias of any kind.” - Journalistic Fraud, How the New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted, by author Bob Kohn

In the news, it has finally been confirmed that The White House is calling out the slip-shot, horrible, opinion reporting, and lack of proper news stories, being brought to the main street market.  The rhetoric and fierce under-reporting that is coming under fire and being fought now on a different front.

Well, that implies that there was is another front battling the mainstream media, right? Yup, and it is called Citizen Journalism.  News agency and journalists are not taking a liking to this new breed of reporting because once a story is published.  A heck of a lot of people are running out and actually following up on the job by DOING FACT CHECKING AND SUPPLYING AMPLE REFERENCES TO GET A PIECE PUBLISHED. Let us not forget, including no blatant opinion!

As the book from Bob Kohn points out, p. 29, “Today it seems, newspapers are in the business of identifying solutions to society’s problems and influencing public opinion to agree with those solutions.  News gathering and reporting are no longer the ends of the newspaper; they have become merely a means to an end.”

* Opinion* <hint,hint> By skippy, I believe this gent has a heck of a point.  I know this is one reason I quit watching the news and doing fact checking on my own – because it was/is not real journalism!  (At least not all of them…..some of the journalists anyway.)

The book goes on to say, p. 33, “News gathering and reporting have become merely a means to that end. The tools of propaganda have found a new home.” [Then further down, same page] “The most powerful means of influencing public opinion -passing off an editorial as a straight news story – is a practice that has become both acceptable and common.”

Since these little facts are not evident to the masses, I really hope that The White House could give the mainstream media some dignity back and pull it together.  Journalists, you guys went to school for crying out loud! But thanks for the mess up, because Citizen Journalism is taking off, amen!

Here is another food for thought to leave you with, again, from Bob Kohn’s book, p. 34,
“The total number of daily newspapers in the U.S. is fewer than 1,000, and most of those are owned by fewer than 20 other companies.”

Mind you that Bob Kohn is an attorney (if I am not mistaken) and the book was written in 2003, so there are a lot of disclaimers as the book goes along.  Not only that but there are great strides taken to point out certain lying aspects that seep into the mainstream media and we (most citizens) gobble it up like chickens and sheep.

(As a side note.) Even local reporting is not local reporting.  How is that possible? Opening a local paper now is like looking at a bunch of pretty arrangements of other world news stories.  A variety from the 20 different markets.  Limited local reporting has happened and the only time to get local reports is from the television, during their live broadcasts.  That’s it. And for some, life is just too dang busy to always be watching television! (Obviously, not all of them, so I am speaking in the local area.)

Clearly, journalism has suffered over the years and it is refreshing to see a stand being taken to clean it up or at least make them start reporting honestly.  Having reviewed the original standards of reporting, maybe it is time to go back to that standard.

Take it for what it is worth – ha! – this is just an opinion, with some facts,  and helping to point out that others took notice a long time ago.

Sources:

Journalistic Fraud How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted, by Bob Kohn, published in Nashville, Tennessee, by WND Books, copyright 2003

Calling ‘Em Out: The White House Takes on The Press, by Michael Scherer, October 8th, 2009, [from] Time

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