SPIN THIS

There was once a time when journalists actually went after stories and stayed with them and on occasion scooped (there's a term that's long gone in journalism) the other reporters in their field.
Politically, this country has seen a homogenization of reporting because everything is so "organized" and politically correct these days.
Gag!
Many years ago, yours truly worked in the field of journalism as a writer/reporter for the (now nearly extinct) newspaper industry.
It was my observation then that something was up as more and more of the aforementioned took place involving the breaking of real news stories to the public.
The reason for this post is upon watching the talking heads on the Sunday morning news talk shows on the various television networks as well as the cable news networks.
Simply put, they really are not telling us anything, just offering a left and right wing spin on the stories that have been in the news.
When I was a child, on Saturday mornings there was a segment hosted by Christopher Glenn on CBS called "In the News" which would actually inform children as to what is going on in the world.
What a concept.
There's probably no way that would ever happen these days as the corporations that have taken over the news media and networks simply wouldn't allow it.
An apathetic public is the norm and when people aren't aware of what is really going on in the world, they tend to disregard real news stories that actually have an effect on their collective lives.
Most people go to the internet these days as a news source and that's good, but it only goes so far because that source doesn't go into detail on stories or spring "exclusives" the way newspapers and local TV news stations can do.
Point is journalism definitely suffers from a lack of investigative reporting in this time. It starts at the top and with so much corporate interest involved, it has a definite impact on the way a person can go about getting to the bottom of a real news story.
Money talks.
Now it's about time to change that.
Fat chance of that happening.
In the meantime, heftyinfo will continue to observe our corporate media and continue to hound them as they just go along with the status quo when in fact they need to go after real news stories with the gusto once seen in times past.