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Check news sources, anchor says

Headline "Check news Sources" This is great advice. When will the political reporters at the D-News start following it?

Dear "Good Advise" [sic]: Your comment is an unfair slam against the D-News reporters, who do indeed check their sources. If you knew much about reporting, you'd know this.

This is great advice too. When will the networks and CNN begin using it?

"I tell kids who want to be anchors or politicians that they need to be a real person before they can become a fake one," Cooper said.


You got the fake personality down. I tell kids who want to be anchors that if they report fairly without bias they have no future in mainstream media.

Please name specific examples where the networks and CNN have not verified their sources?

What you do not understand, is that they DO -- so when you critics of the "mainstream media" don't see "Obama is a Muslim" or "Obama is a terrorist" reported by reliable news sources as the truth, you think that no one is paying attention.

They DID pay attention. That's why the majority of voters ignored the UNverified reports of the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Reillys, hoax emailers, Roger Ailes and other political tools financed by the multi-billionnaires who have got us into this financial mess.

Anderson Cooper does a Great Job on the AC-360
News program on CNN.

I especially like the feature entitled:
"Keeping Them Honest".

I do believe that news features like this does cut down on Governmental Leaders from thinking they are
"privedged" and above the law that the "common" folk must follow. It cuts it down because this type of media stories create an atmosphere of "Accountability" to their final authority:
Their Constituents, the Voting Public!!

Politicians do behave better, like many others,
when Accountability is Present!!

Now that's a perfect choice for a speaker for young people. Anderson Cooper is the consummate professional whom kids should look to for inspiration. Great job!

He is right. A reporter SHOULD check his sources. The problems is that real reporters are a very rare find. Most news 'reporter' start with a conclusion and then get credible sources to support that conclusion. The last time I remember a reporter really breaking news of any consequence was when Drudge ran with a story Newsweek decided to spike. Also when someone broke the news about the SLOCC scandal.

To "Dear "Utah Rose:" You need to give examples of ANY stories that were inaccurate by the commentators you cite. I don't believe you can since none of these people EVER claimed that Obama is a muslim or a terrorist. Unfortunately, you have bought into a lot of nonsense stories from the left.

You can really get into trouble when you get your information from a bunch of left--wing bloggers.

Dan Rather's fictional piece on Bush's national Guard service is a prime example of failure to check sources.

The LA Times still is holding a secret tape of Obama's probable praising or an anti-semite racist. Is that checking all sources, or hiding those who tell a different story than you want to hear?

Daily reports on disaster in Iraq when in fact great progress was being (and continues to be) made comes to mind.

The national media's willful turning of a blind eye to Obama's numerous nefarious cohorts (Ayers, Rezko, Wright, etc, etc) is an example of one sided partisanship simply by failure to look at ALL sources.

The local media's lingering fetish for skewering Chris Buttars over an out of context comment and terming it "racist" and overlooking the many fine works he has done helping troubled youth of all races.

Generally the Deseret news local reporters do a pretty good job, but the blind acceptance of every AP story shows that editors have lots their ability to fact check, and are little more than human spell checkers and layout artists.

Most electronic news media reporting is abysmal propaganda read by oafs with pretty hair.

Strange no one has mentioned Fox News. Wonder why?