THIS CNN article by Alexander Mooney is a prime example of how the "main stream" media is utterly failing America:
Pelosi said the oil industry is not aggressively exploring large amounts of federal areas already leased to them and approved for drilling, including 33 million offshore acres and 68 million acres in the lower 48 states. She has sponsored legislation calling on oil companies to increase their production in those areas before they are allowed to go into the offshore areas currently banned.
Pelosi "said".
NO NO NO, Alexander Mooney, you ignorant, incompetent ass.
Not "Pelosi said" - IT IS A FACT that the oil industry is not aggressively exploring large amounts of federal areas already leased to them! IT IS A GODDAMN FACT!
Don't set it up in that lazy-ass he-said-she-said-I'm-too-stupid-too-check-it-out way.
STATE IT. Here is how that sentence would be written by a competent, non-lazy journalist: The oil industry is not aggressively exploring large amounts of federal areas already leased to them...
Do you not see the difference?
Do you not see why that is critical?
I am so goddamn sick of this Howard-Kurtzian-the-truth-must-be-somewhere-in-the-middle bullshit!
ALEXANDER MOONEY you are a fucking reporter! Not a stenographer! Do some fucking RESEARCH, you lazy jackass.
Do you just copy down what both sides say and throw that shit down on a piece of paper and turn it in so you can go home early?
YOU NEED TO ADD CONTEXT. YOU NEED TO POINT OUT TO YOUR READERS WHAT THE FACTS ARE. THE FACTS EXIST INDEPENDENTLY OF THE QUOTES YOU GET. DON'T YOU KNOW THAT?
That really then makes a difference. Maybe people would stop blowing sunshine up your skirt if they knew you were going to check out what they said against THE FACTS and call them on it for all your readers to see.
Please Alexander Mooney. Get your head out of your behind.
Don't you think public opinion would be different if the public actually knew the FACTS!!! Now, HOW do you think the public gets the facts? FROM THE FREAKIN' NEWS - FROM CNN - FROM YOU, JACKASS!!!! How are they supposed to learn the facts from this worthless piece of stenography you submitted?
You need to STATE THE FACT and then provide some additional context as to WHY those oil companies are not drilling under those existing leases. Could it be that the oil companies are trying to drive up prices, and that is why they are not drilling? HERE'S A CRAZY IDEA - MAYBE YOU! COULD CHECK THAT OUT!!!!! You being a goddamn REPORTER and all.
Sheesh.
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