I’ve written a lot, over the years, on both the plunging quality of “journalism” as well as the skyrocketing uplift of the naked partisanship of those “journalists”. Here, thanks to Wokeness, it’s a twofer!
Don’t blame the person doing the lies and demand personal accountability and responsibility. Blame the hollowed-out newsroom staff.
You just can’t make this up. I maintain that it wasn’t that the newspaper’s standards were too high but that they weren’t high enough! As always, reformatted, emphasis mine:
Journalism professor suggests young reporters fabricate stories because of racism, high standards
In a long Twitter thread on Thursday, a Marquette University assistant professor of journalism suggested young reporters may fabricate stories because newspaper journalism standards are too high and because minority reporters might feel racism on the job.
“In my few years as a journalism educator, I’ve found that the younglings engage in unethical practices (ie, fabricating quotes, etc.) mostly out of desperation mixed with inexperience,” wrote Dr. Ayleen Cabas-Mijares, who describers herself as a “Critical/Cultural and Feminist Media scholar” in her Twitter biography. “Their failure to meet standards says as much about the unmanageable pressure they deal with and the little support/guidance they have as their personal shortcomings,” she wrote.
Yep, hitting all the right buttons to excuse someone from doing their due diligence in working in that field. Just have to love the word choices: standards, minority, desperation, failure, PRESSURE! Nice word as well: “younglings”; as Howie Carr would say, “just a yute [youth]” even as the rest of us, knowing that having graduated from college, Gabriela Miranda was an adult. Thus, we all must have pity for her as that’s what we do with children.
Anything except the phrase “deliberately lying.” Not a single thing about the person making stuff out of whole cloth – but the company that took that “youngling” in certainly took it on the chin, right? And racism covers everything nowadays, doesn’t it?
It’s never about shortcomings and not being the person unsuitable for the position. It’s never about the willingness and deliberate decisions to cut corners or engage in that “unethical” behavior, is it? Oh, oops, should have read further down – I missed a word!
The Marquette professor acknowledged that Miranda had made “huge, reprehensible mistakes” but also laid the blame at the feet of USA Today for having journalistic standards.
“Plug someone like Miranda, a young woman from a minoritized community trying to make it in a big (white) newsroom, and you get a recipe for failure,” Cabas-Mijares wrote.
The non-apology apology because this Ph.D. Professor is doing the two-step blame game – sure, “reprehensible,” but dontcha just love the “blame transference” to the company that was paying her to be truthful? And at the same time, is Cabas-Mijares suggesting that young Latinas from marginalized communities aren’t capable of high performances under pressure?
I guess that frosts me the most – that because of your skin color, your name, your ethnicity, where you come from – you’re already a loser. That’s both nauseating and a display of really low standards. Even a cub reporter (I guess all but this one) understand that you just don’t make stuff up:
USA Today said the investigation into Miranda began with an “external correction request” several weeks ago. The investigation then broadened to nearly two-dozen stories Miranda had written.
“The audit revealed that some individuals quoted were not affiliated with the organizations claimed and appeared to be fabricated,” USA Today said in a statement. “The existence of other individuals quoted could not be independently verified. In addition, some stories included quotes that should have been credited to others.”
So the Prof decided to blame one of the largest newspapers in the country (I’d read it when staying at a hotel on business) for the decisions of its reporter? Nonsense!
The moral here is that Wokeness, in the form of the Democrat Party’s Identity Group Political Totem Pole, rips away any sensibility of “just do your job”. Myriad excuses then come forth in trying to cover any malfeasance. Always the victim should trump any ideas that we should expect truthful reporting.
Consistency? While USA Today did the right thing (finally), those that are teaching new journalists have imbibed the Woke Kool-aid – and then teach these “childrent” that “it ain’t your fault if you get caught.” NOTHING in the piece gave me the impression of what should be a heavy dose of “you screwed up – and you deserved it.”
And as long as this continues:
Ok. Yes. Gabriela Miranda made huge, reprehensible mistakes and is facing the consequences. However, we should spend more time critiquing newsroom and corporate leaders at USA Today. Here’s why 🧵
— Dr. Ayleen Cabas-Mijares (@ayleen_cabas) June 17, 2022
It’s going to continue. Instead of “critiquing newsroom and corporate leaders at USA Today” (those white racists!!!!), how about going after Miranda’s profs with attitudes like yours that hand out “freedom from blame hall passes” like candy to kindergartners at Halloween?
And they wonder why their stock prices, pay rates, and subscription numbers keep going down.
(H/T: The College Fix)
