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Tom Davis
Nov 14, 2018 15:49:32 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by Bigfoot on Nov 14, 2018 15:49:32 GMT -6
Saw this tweet from Davis today on why he was fired in Florida.
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Post by cardfan on Nov 14, 2018 16:01:00 GMT -6
Ooops
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Post by chirpchirpcards on Nov 14, 2018 16:20:39 GMT -6
42 editions...So the dude worked there for less than a month and a half and got canned?
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Post by rmcalhoun on Nov 14, 2018 18:24:24 GMT -6
Looks like it
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Post by mattg on Nov 14, 2018 18:37:15 GMT -6
Palatka is about 45 minutes away from my home in Jacksonville. Maybe I can find where he lives and give him a loud “chirp chirp” to appease our messageboard brethren.
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Post by cardfan on Nov 14, 2018 18:41:49 GMT -6
Dude steps on toes. Which, a journalist should if he’s doing his job. But step on wrong toes and they’ll run ya out.
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Nov 15, 2018 7:42:11 GMT -6
Davis let his opinions color his reporting too much. A trend that journalism has been overrun with lately.
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Post by DickHunsaker on Nov 15, 2018 8:09:39 GMT -6
I wish i could read the articles
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Post by cardfan on Nov 15, 2018 8:27:07 GMT -6
Davis let his opinions color his reporting too much. A trend that journalism has been overrun with lately. Was he a reporter or a columnist?
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Post by 00hmh on Nov 15, 2018 9:10:48 GMT -6
Davis let his opinions color his reporting too much. A trend that journalism has been overrun with lately. It is very prevalent in sports reporting. A lot of the reporting is done by a "columnist" whose job is probably to have opinions, but since they are reporting "news" too the distinction is very much blurred.
In journalism more generally, there is a similar phenomenon. It is worse as the "opinion" writers take over. It's one thing for a publisher to have editorial policy and therefore influence the editor on which stories get above the fold front page, how many column inches devoted to some particular topic or political candidate and so on.
We've gone awfully far where we now may not trust a news network to even report some news. Where in a quest for ratings, the "opinion" about the news seems what viewers want more than just hearing the facts. Personally, I hate to have to watch two news outlets to be sure I am even seeing all the events that may occur. It all started with the injection more "interpretation" of the news and reporting reaction of the various political constituencies to the news as it that is the real story always. I understand that is important enough to be covered. But...
My own gripe goes furterh, to constantly have to have a panel of talking heads always, always reporting opinion mixed in with the news. I guess I don't want an obligatory conservative and liberal interpretation of every story. There is a place to preserve balance, but I would much prefer to more often just here the news reader read the news.
THAT, like the sports talk radio shock jock reporting you are talking about just doesn't get the ratings, I guess...
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Post by rmcalhoun on Nov 15, 2018 13:27:42 GMT -6
Hers the deal he can not get out of his own way.. He just can not help himself
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Post by 00hmh on Nov 15, 2018 14:31:22 GMT -6
Nailed him.
Even if you agree with him on something he's such a tool you can't really like the story.
Always about him some way
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Post by CallingBS on Nov 17, 2018 10:51:20 GMT -6
I'm assuming he supported Gillum (God help us all), but his post is so incomplete that it's hard to follow. He's a manipulative, overly opinionated hack.
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Post by 00hmh on Nov 17, 2018 12:50:38 GMT -6
I'm assuming he supported Gillum (God help us all), but his post is so incomplete that it's hard to follow. He's a manipulative, overly opinionated hack. I agree about the "defense" of his high journalistic ethics that he posts. But I don't know how if he is even in the support ranks. He is not despite his own characterization a guy I associate with great courage or any real high degree of enthusiasm for the "free press" except of course he wants to be free to say what he wants.... So if he thought he was in trouble I'd bet on him being careful on the count of being overly positive.
Still could be he just ran into small town ownership that wanted no coverage at all of the candidate. Even very little mention, even neutral. What I saw, the story just acknowledged the Gillum vote was large, probably historic in that part of the state, who knows? And that was also his gripe about an earlier story which also seemed to be that he covered it without emphasizing good or bad, either candidate,in the category of simply treating a big appearance as news. Hard to be sympathetic with this guy but he could have a gripe.
Or, probably more likely, his firing could well be just a case of the owner deciding he was an ass hat after other run ins with him...
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Post by williamtsherman on Nov 17, 2018 15:15:30 GMT -6
So he's going away thinking of himself as paying the price for being a brave crusader of freedom of the press. Just like he left Indiana stewing over the ingratitude of BSU fans for the stories he wrote "out of the kindness of his heart".
He needs to find a job where his immaturity is less on display. Hope he does.
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