Skins vs. The Post

[monk81]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

wolfeskins:

If the Post had taken your advice about how to behave back in the 1970s, Watergate would never have been a big deal. They weren't nice to the President at the time so they could continue to get interviews; they went out and found out what the news was and reported it. That is what newspapers are supposed to do. That's what made Woodward and Bernstein famous. Until then, they were a pair of low-level hacks covering the Metro beat and hoping to find a scoop on something about the local transit system. YAWN !!!

Neither side in this mess is acting particularly professionally but there is an old adage that Danny Boy really ought to consider:

Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the boxcar-full.

But today's media is different than in the 70's there's no longer REAL journalism it's more like sensationalism because with the internet and all the news available online newspapers today are in a fight for their lives, subscriptions keep going down and down........so they fudge the facts and bend the truth, or create a controversey to sell papers...........