What's Worse Than Government Eavesdropping?

This is actually pretty incredible when you think about these quotes from a journalist writing on citizen journalism. h/t Instapundit Especially so when you realize, in some ways, what people are doing out here is having a conversation on news and events - a very public one at that.

The news industry should find some way to monitor and regulate this new trend. Information without journalistic standards is called gossip.

So, the media should monitor and regulate it somehow? I didn't realize they became a government agency when I wasn't looking. Oh wait. Were that true, what's being proposed would be illegal.

Ironic that the First Amendment protects this moron, even if he has no clue what it represents.

Comments

[shunha7878]

What is David HAZINSKI e-mail address?

[Yoda]

IamAtool@blowhard.com

[DavidL]

Journalism is not a professsion. It what some people do, some for money, others as a hobby. However doing it for money is more apt to make a person a whore than an expert. Let the professsional journalist get their house in order before they dare lecture to amatuers.

[lonetown]

Isn't "First Amendment and the fun things you can do with it" a core class in first year Journalism?

[Fred Beloit]

Here is another one of his marvelous suggestions:

"• Major news organizations must create standards to substantiate citizen-contributed information and video, and ensure its accuracy and authenticity."

AAhh hahahahahhahah Ahh hahahahahahah.

[Dave]

Did you notice he used the wrong word twice in the same paragraph? When attempting to brag about the 'principles' of journalists, he used 'principals' TWICE.

He might as well illustrate that handguns are dangerous by shooting himself in the foot. What an IDIOT.

He claims the difference between the real journos and the wannabes is standards, and then illustrates the pathetically low standard of writing and spelling to which he adheres.

I didn't make it out of junior college, and I can do better than THAT.

[seekeronos]

Here is the (reasonably up-to-date)... which is public domain since it is published on the intertube nets:

(...as posted on the Grady College site, a unit of the U.Georgia) :

http://www.grady.uga.edu/resources.php?page=facultyandstaff_profiles.inc.php%7Cfac_ID=17

"---
David Hazinski
Associate Professor

Office: 139
Phone Number: (706) 542-4976
Fax Number: (706) 542-2183
E-Mail Address: hazinski@grady.uga.edu

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* Education
M.A., Educational Communications and Technology, University of Pittsburgh

B.A., Journalism, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh

* Teaching Specialty
Professor Hazinski's teaching interests are the building blocks of broadcast news: news, writing, producing, reporting and newsroom management. Teach upper level and graduate professional courses in radio/television news production, broadcast news writing, documentary production and advanced television news. He originated and is responsible for the management of the College's 30-minute daily live news broadcast, Newsource 15. He also originated with CNN the CNN College Newsource program.

* Experience
He owns Intelligent Media Consultants, LLC, a company responsible for training the staffs and helping to launch eight television networks around the world, mostly on the sub-continent. These include Aaj Tak and CNN-IBN in India and GEO TV in Pakistan. He has also consulted for broadcasters and publishers such as the Voice of America, Gramedia in Indonesia, and Alsumaria in Beirut and Baghdad. While on the faculty, Hazinski spent two years as writer, co-host and technology advisor of the internationally syndicated World Business Review with Caspar Weinberger, the Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan. Before coming to UGA, Hazinski served six years as an international correspondent for NBC News, covering the U.S., Europe, and Central America -- and ten years before that as a TV reporter with stations in Charlotte and Pittsburgh.

* Awards
Hazinski holds a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, the university's highest teaching award and has been appointed a Senior Teaching Fellow and a member of the Teaching Academy. He has received more than a dozen local, state, and national journalism awards, including a Golden Quill for Investigative Reporting.

* Curriculum Vitae
Download a copy of Mr. Hazinski's CV
http://www.grady.uga.edu/CV/Hazinski.2005.pdf

---"

[T-Ray]

There is a great book from a few years ago written by a professional journalist marking a turning point in journalistic media, a more real-time report do to teh tubes and blogging. It is a great read and several of my journalist friends said they feel it should be taught as curriculum. The title is "We the media" written by Dan Gillmor.

[Carl Gordon]

Maybe you then can tell me what our chances are for fulfillment and pleasant demeanor when faced by too numerous to count missiles of mendacity and ill regard being flung at us, the voting public, as well as flying out in all directions as if a whole gaggle of crazed monkeys broke in to the local armory, peppering the night sky willy-nilly with lead projectiles for know apparent purpose save that one might connect with the already badly damaged heart and bearing of the country and it's institutions. Down in the land of inbred kissin' cousins they say it sounds like a job for ole’ Jay-zuzz, though I don’t think even the great Oz has anything in his bag o’ tricks that could help us in the interim. And believe it or not, some GOP pinheads are completely baffled as to the source of our discontent, which are understandably many and not apparent to the typical stoopid political nanker pushing the stone up the hill whilst stuffing his/her pockets. It's visions of Joanna as we try in vain to stuff socks in the mouths of the broken-record choir with their plaintive bleating, croaking “Cha-ching!!” as they toss the rotten vegetables of their own failed schemes on National T.V.. They sure got a lot of gall! These visions of Joanna keep us up past the dawn (Sorry Bob!), ringing truer as Kafka-esque nightmares. Somebody please tell me what salvation is like after a while. Jeez, I can’t find my knees.

[T-Ray]

WTP?!? Carl G. LOL

Got anymore of that?

[Carl Gordon]

T-ray

The Dung Wars continue. Based on an 11th century text, the accolades of Saint Bulbous have given religious wrath a good name. Paring their toenails and girding their loins, the faithful are ready for battle. Chuncks of shite, flung with abandon. But the Plain of Noyes is being reaped. There betwixt narthex and nave, one is given respite from an uncommon toil. "Where be tho-st?" asked the faithful. "Twilling and begetting and begatting with mortal abandon," the horde doth answer.
"And you, my wandering knave, what ecclesiastical gifts bestow-est upon the host?"
Unbeknownst to most, a wandering Rhino, with horn akimbo like some somnambulant samurai given to oiled prose and greasy poetry, waxes digitally upon the nubile nooky.
So how go-est the battle for you, young varlet? Keen thy sword and hard thy lingam. Go forth and nard the carthax, slip the yoni to the fair maiden and call her Bernice.

[seekeronos]

えぇぇぇぇぇぇぇぇ？

なにこれ？ このへんあ変な外人さん、「Carlさん」が、面白いですね〜♪。

[Muffler]

David Hazinski's opinion is interesting. To suggest that anyone should define the credentials required to be a publishing journalist is absurd. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin would go nuts! All you need is a printing press or computer. Let the public decide!

The point of freedom of the press is that anyone who wants to print a comment, opinion or news can do so without the government interference. The credibility of the publisher is defined by consistency, accuracy and the public.

David Hazinski indirectly suggests that the "self-accredited" mainstream press should be the filter for all the above and thus Nanny the public in opinion, news and policy. Since corporations now consolidate this line of information, I suggest that the people wanting to create standards for accreditation are the ones wishing to retain the power to meter out the news, opinion and policy. Those already in power are setting the standards only they can meet thus trying to excluding all others.

I suggest that the people must have unfettered access to everything they want to hear, read and see. They can make up their own minds. David Hazinski fears that after years of consolidation and control, his power is being diluted. He now has a huge amount of new competition. Everyone else has had to complete with global outsourcing and so, welcome to the Riehl World David Hazinski!

Via the 1st Amendment! Via the Constitution! Via Freedom of Thought! Via Enlightenment! Via the Truth!

Muffler

[Fred Beloit]

Muff, you need to return to the university. The new profs there will teach you not to sign on to the kinds of tripe you listed above. There you will learn: Viva sensitivity to the feelings of others! Amerika stinks now more than ever! Terrorists are people too! To be concerned about security is to be a coward! Government exists to give you stuff that others will pay for! Hot out, ain't it! And a lot of other cool, new truths. Get thee to a college.

[muffler]

Fred:

I am absolutely mystified by your reply. I didn't mentioned anything you are talking about. Cowards? Terrorists are people too? government giving free stuff? America stinks now?

Take a breath and get some sleep. Then read my post.

Muffler

[seekeronos]

"--- The credibility of the publisher is defined by consistency, accuracy and the public. ---"

Indeed, and this is why credentialing systems for journalism will be inherently vested in the editor of the respective publication, and ultimately, in the readers who have more than just trivial knowledge of any given event being covered.

That is to say, if a journalist thinks that his journalistic poop doesn't stink because he went to a certain J-school or has been admitted to a certain publication's pool of contributing authors or featured writers, or has earned a syndication... and then goes on to make a pattern of writing things that exposes either his bias or his stupidity, it will bring whatever prestige his publication might have enjoyed down to the level of Mad Magazine, or worse, TNR (Beauchumping).

This of course presumes that we retain a populace that is largely literate and educated (hopefully, beyond the confines of the intellectual prisons most colleges and universities have become).

Not that those same uni's and colleges aren't actively trying to steer the direction of all political thought in this nation, as well as purposely dumb down the rest of us: if the left hand of the media doesn't get you, the even lefter hand of the Ed-ju-mah-kay-shun cartel certainly will. (Sorry folks, but there is no "right" hand in that analogy).

[johnd]

I believe their are "industry standards" and non-government "regulating" by private indudtry for financial advisors/planners, real estate agents, appraisers, etc, etc. Did these private socialist industries who set up their stamdards, licensing, diciplinary programs under very conservative leadership somehow escape your scrutiny?

For shame a liberal suggest private industry attempt to self regulate.

[muffler]

There would be very little printed if publishers produced only things that offended nobody…Printers are
educated in the belief that when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of
being heard by the public, and that when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for
the latter.