An internal memo over the transom
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Scoops are the new currency?
I gave you a scoop.
I gave you a scoop so great it knocks anything you can scoop into the gutter.
Trouble is, my scoop is nothing but trouble.
http://www.bhmversusmengele.tumblr.com
is where my scoop currently lives.
Since my scoop I have been browbeaten, the scoop's main subject has died, his son has changed his name whilst changing the description of his 10, no now 8 bed luxury villa at Mougins callled Villa Almarin, (translate that!) which I have as a proime bolt hole as the father was hunted down. a skelton has been cremated from a 1985 exhumation directly following my disclosures, Lots of height issues over the evidence get manipulated,and worst of all the front organisation of Scientology are trying to muddy the waters with baffling off the centre claims making mine look as stupid even in my own eyes, But I hold out, my scoop is life blood for our survival against governments who would wish to enslave many more than have been killed in the holocaust. Tim Baber
#1 Posted by Tim Baber, CJR on Fri 11 Jan 2013 at 02:19 PM
Is this WSJ's idea of a joke on journalism? Of course, everyone wants a scoop. But scoops are not waiting there to be discovered. In our corrupt world where governments lend their entire machinery to stifle unpalatable news, it will take some doing to unearth a few real scoops. A memo like the one is going to make pariahs of WSJ journalists who would be shunned by everyone.
It would probably make more sense to the readers if they could help the average reader make sense of the barrage of data that is bombarding his or her life and how it affects him or her. What a sad state of affairs is this?
#2 Posted by Shreesh, CJR on Sat 12 Jan 2013 at 08:20 AM
What does he mean by "scoops"? Getting the bullshit press release 10 seconds before anyone else so you can say you got it first, and so that your subscribers can trade on it first? Being faster with the official lies isn't the way to go.
#3 Posted by Brian O'Connor, CJR on Mon 14 Jan 2013 at 09:08 PM
Does murdoch's wsj really believe they can out fluff what Pierce calls the dalkon shield of journalism?
http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/politics/politico-government-shutdown-011413
"This is what comes from defining politics purely as tactics and politicians purely as personalities. The callous recklessness demonstrated in this piece is demonstrated merely as the pursuit of a tactical advantage, and its effects merely as the ongoing harshing of John Boehner's mellow. Detaching politics from the people — and, thereby, detaching political maneuvering from its real-world consequences — is the worst journalistic malpractice that can be committed in a self-governing republic and, in that, Politico is the Dalkon Shield of American journalism. A class-action suit by citizens wouldn't be out of place at this point."
Yeah, I don't think that's a contest you're gonna win, nevermind the fact it's one you shouldn't wanna win.
#4 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Tue 15 Jan 2013 at 12:10 AM