The lie that is "journalism"
“There is an odor to any press headquarters that is unmistakable: the unavoidable smell of flesh burning quietly and slowly in the service of a machine.” (Norman Mailer)
A post of mine that many of you have probably not seen:
Fake News + Bad Journalism = New Normal
I’ve been interviewed more times than I can remember. Those experiences have sometimes left me shaking my head when I’d find factual errors in the ensuing articles and posts about myself. After all, who better than Mickey Z. to fact-check something written about Mickey Z.?
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” (Upton Sinclair)
Another post of mine that many of you have probably not seen:
What I learned about journalism as a teenager
As some of you may know, I didn’t go to college. Sure, I took some classes at a local CUNY school but that was just to appease my parents. I decided early on to chart my own course and not spend most or all of my life with student debt. I wasn’t a fan of traditional education anyway. I cruised through four years of high school without bringing home a bo…
you were what I call street smart. My late husband still was paying off student debts when we got married. He was in his 40s. And for what? He had studied theology and soon found out, that church elders only want to know how much money your church made, not how many people you helped into the faith. He gave up on it and became a truck driver.
Seems like more and more everything is scripted. Stay unscripted friend!!