Journalistic malpractice
Journalistic malpractice is a term used to describe the once objective field of journalism which has now been reduced to ideology and slander. It is attributed to people within the mainstream media and old-media, but not exclusively. Their failure as a group willfully misleads and corrupts the public. Objective journalism was once the cornerstone of America's democracy. When objectivity is replaced with malpractice then the media loses credibility. Without credibility, journalism becomes error-filled, journalistic failure, reckless journalism, outright factual inaccuracies, promotion of fact-free journalism or falsehood-spreading. One of journalists' goals is to selectively edit statements to hide facts [1] or to perpetrate falsehoods. [2] Another is to repeat falsehoods so that an issue dear to their agenda is kept alive in the publics' mind.[3]
References
- â Two Weeks Out, Campaign Goes to Last Place Obama Wants it to Be Rush Limbaugh, October 21, 2008
- â Bozell on the Palin Book-Burning Myth NewsBusters.org, September 22, 2008
- â Journalistic Malpractice in "Marriage is Dead" Report, Michael Medved, Townhall.com, January 18, 2007