Jubbergun wrote:
cziiki wrote:
TLDR: It was okay, most of the people in the room (despite being journalism students) had extreme bias against her and her beliefs, and spent the Q&A section harassing her.
Thanks for making me spit Diet Dew out of my nose, you bastich!!
Journalists (even the student ones) are people. People are bias. The idea that someone who majors in journalism or is employed as a journalist is less biased/unbiased is ridiculous. The bias comes dripping through your average media article like juice from squeezed fruit...whether it's OMFGTeaPartyEVIL Foxnews, Thrillupmyleg MSNBC or anything in between. For example, when I read the word "radical" in front of anything regarding either Dem legislation or the Tea Party. There's nothing really 'radical' about either. Show me a politician with eating babies in his platform, and you might have something. If there's no delicious smoked baby involved, keep your fucking BIASED opinion to yourself, Mr. and Mrs. Journalism, and leave the word "radical" for campaign commercials where it belongs.
Also...google articles about SUV incident/accidents. In the majority of those, you'll find the way the pieces are written makes it sound like the vehicle acted of its own accord.
Journalists are just as ridiculous and sorry as everyone else.
Your Pal,
Jubber
Wasn't really the word i was looking for....perhaps respect? I dunno, i went into that meeting well prepared for the speaker in both terms and history of their actions, and yet found myself surrounded by individuals who (despite being the future journalists of america) took no insight into researching these people. And if by some chance they did research them, it was more to berate them on their false comings in life than to hold a intellectual argument.
Perhaps the point i took from this is that College students now a day seem to have less respect for guest speakers who may hold controversial views, and instead of listening to what said speaker has to say about said thing, they block out what the speaker is attempting to defend or reject and instead wait until they've stopped talking to attempt to correct them and then either verbally assault them based upon their stance or based on their response.
Perhaps going into a discussion with the idea of "This person is going to talk about 1st amendment rights" (which a majority of her talking was about) versus "This person's beliefs and standards I disagree with, I'm just here to protest" was the real difference here.
And to those individuals who would do such a thing, despite the person talking or how controversial the matter is: FUCK YOU, I attended the event with the sole purpose of attempting to relate with what they were saying and attempting to get an insight into who they are. But if you think of yourself and your cause so highly that instead of joining the protest that was going on outside the building, you feel you must insult and berate a person who took time out of their day in order to discuss their standards and beliefs with you, you are a sad sad sad person.
Basically Jubber, i may have misused the word "bias" in this situation and probably would have been better off using respect or something.
