Friday, November 27, 2009

Local commentor wants to license journalists

A Mr. Frank Mickens is over at the Jackson Free Press complaining about bloggers and first proposed a licensing of journalists, for consumer protection of course, before Ladd disagreed with him, to her credit:
"Your first amendment arguments against creating a cadre of licensed, peer reviewed and ethically bound individuals known as Professional Journalists (P.J.’s) ring hollow in my ears.
The licensing requirements would create a separate class of professionals, who hopefully will be held in higher public regard than the current conglomeration of off the cuff bloggers and talking heads. It would force people like Rush Limbaugh and the Fox/CNN/MSNBC, etc news groups of crying, whining talking heads to be known as less than the best, by virtue of their inability to submit to and abide by a process of education, training, peer review, code of ethics and disciplinary risk.....
You cite that there are many organizations that offer journalistic guidance. In my opinion, what we need is a system of organizations (like state bar associations, professional engineering boards, medical licensing panels, etc.) offering standardized training and education requirements, qualified peer review, ethical requirements and disciplinary powers."

What do you propose Frank? Prosecuting people for engaging in the unauthorized practice of journalism? A licensing board that denies licenses journalists it doesn't like? The difference between a someone like Mickens and someone like me is I assume you guys have some brains and don't need any labels or certifications to decide if each post on this site is BS. I actually think you know how to tell the difference between facts, news, and opinions. People like Mr. Mickens think you are all stupid and unable to think critically so therefore you need to be protected from what he thinks are phony journalists. He should take is idea to Gannett. Their foundation would probably fund such a project. Can't imagine why, can you?

Posted by Kingfish at 9:15 AM

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

oooweee...I am so working up a case of evil eye for that fool. WTF does he think he is? OH, that just pithes me off to the highest point of pithitivity. All bloggers should tell him to Kiss their collective Arse. Grr, hiss, and spit.
Next time I'll say how I really feel...

November 27, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Anonymous said...

"know how to tell the difference between facts, news, and opinions"--

you've got to be kidding, right? Because of the dumbing down of journalists, aka celebrities, talking heads etc., most folks no longer seem to be able to tell the difference between their brain or a hole in the ground. There's now 2 "sides" to every fact, every bit of news. You have to have a republican and a democrat tell you the 2 sides of the fact, and the journalist acts like a mediator in a debate. Who needs independent verification and research when you can just interview a representative from each side of the political spectrum to make it look like you're unbiased? The facts, the opinions, are all "adapted" to fit the intended audience because that's the way people like it. Which means, that's what they will pay for.

November 27, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Paul Mitchell said...

I think that Mr. Mickens needs to start a peer-review board to follow the money paid from the City of Jackson to AJA Management instead of worrying about what is going on at the Clarion Ledger and the Jackson Free Press. Wonder why AJA did not do so good while Frank was Mayor? And why is the city's consulting money starting to head to Atlanta again?

OH WAIT!!! He was dissing BLOGGERS and wanting to place limits on the First Amendment, that is just peachy with me.

(/sarc in case you are wondering)

November 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Anonymous said...

There has always been more than one side to every fact, or what has been represented to information consumers as fact. Any notion that the public needs journalists as mediators to sift through to a final determination of fact is absolute crap.

Journalists are biased gatekeepers. Nothing more and history has proven a whole lot less.

November 27, 2009 at 3:21 PM
KaptKangaroo said...

This idea is the most foolish one I've heard in a long time. So does he want to license my comments too. Here's some roo poo for you fool. I will fight to preserve my right
to speak - I refuse to allow holier than thow hacks like this journalist tell me that I must pay a fee to be given the privaledge of voicing my opinion. This just irks my roo ass!

November 27, 2009 at 5:41 PM
FUAH said...

KK, of course Mickens wants to limit, er license, your speech. Based on her extensive past commentary -- some of which KF has documented -- Ladd would also except she's smart enough to realize that such a licensure would likely exclude her "partner" and everyone else in her intern-laden "newsroom" other than Lynch.

Mickens' effort is an open-face opinion to silence online voices that he and the rest of the far left can't control. Yet the want, and desperate need, for strict 'discussion control' isn't limited one's position on the political spectrum as is clear from the efforts of the NearStrokeMan and his RINO cohorts to silence those who speak out about the graft, corruption and deception associated with the redevelopment of downtown Jackson.

If the Internet has done anything it is to guarantee that the United States will experience anarchy before it succumbs to opinion control. That means, NearStrokeMan and NearStrokeManJr., that you can kiss my ass MFs.

November 27, 2009 at 9:02 PM

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