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News Reporting from Outside the Ball Park by Dusti Sparks-Myers
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edited: Monday, January 25, 2010
Posted: Monday, January 4, 2010
When Legitimate News is Pushed Under the Bus of Yellow Journalism
As if disaster news from earthquake demolished Haiti is not sufficiently important or the damage to homes and property in California because of several extreme storms is not considered nationally newsworthy, some media reporters seem set to develop salacious news and innuendos where none previously existed and with no regard to facts or truth.
After all, news not geared towards an individual's personal politics, lifestyle, or worldview in order to malign, smear, be vicious, disparaging or simply destructive, well - it really cannot be "real news" - now can it? At least, that is the way these newly minted, media-embellished stories by "out of the ballpark reporters" appear to those hearing or reading them.
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