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Sun 28 May, 2017 11:03 am
There are all types of political news terms for covering politics.
The term political commentator is synonymous with the term political pundit.
The term political journalist is synonymous with the term political reporter.
This question pertains to television, radio, newspaper, internet, and any other form of media.
The question is: Are political journalists/reporters being completely replaced by political pundits/commentators?
Quote:The question is: Are political journalists/reporters being completely replaced by political pundits/commentators?
I submit that you are making the unwarranted assumption that there has ever existed "political journalists/reporters".
@camlok,
Quote:I submit that you are making the unwarranted assumption that there has ever existed "political journalists/reporters".
Are you saying that there was never a time when a news broadcast anchor or a newspaper didn't report the political news without giving their opinions?
@Real Music,
When you draw it down to "a" reporter/anchor/newspaper, then no, I am not saying that.
@camlok,
It seems like political punditry is constantly growing in popularity while political journalism and reporting is shrinking in popularity. Especially in the areas of radio and cable news. Broadcast television and newspapers still have some political journalism remaining, but not totally.
This is a very good question--to which I would respond that political "punditry" has been in evidence, and dominant, since the first days of the republic.
Profit-making stations, newspapers, and others are interested in just that: profit. While the major Network news programs appear to be objective, the time constraints due to the profit imperative restricts any in-depth coverage at all.
The only stations with any available time for deep coverage are the public stations, NPR et al. As far as unbiased talk shows go Charlie Rose is the closest.
@Setanta,
A typically deceptive reply.
Quote:"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with.
Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
John Swinton, preeminent New York journalist, at a press banquet, 1880
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