The New Journalistic Poshness: The Opinion Media Monitor

Michelle Malkin reports that the New York Times is going to hire an “opinion media monitor”.  The short version is that after being caught flat-footed on stories like the ACORN sting, they’ve decided to hire someone to monitor “opinion media” for stories.  They don’t want to look partisan, you see.

I can’t imagine how they might think they appeared that way, with their revenues going down and such.  That and the headline basically stating that us evil conservatives finally hit those innocent ACORN types where it hurts because it’s fun (“Conservatives Draw Blood From ACORN, Favored Foe”).  With objectivity like this, who needs opinion?

Anyway, this “opinion media monitor” is anonymous and has no contact information.  This means you can’t get in touch with him/her, and have no way of confirming or denying their objectivity.  Suddenly, this sort of new journalistic poshness is within the reach of anyone!

Seeing as how this is so easy to do, how about I appoint my own opinion media monitor:  Ned the Intern.  He’s my official site running gag and the name I gave my PHP news aggregator script.  In short, he’s not real.

Arguably, this will make him much the same as the New York Times’ opinion media monitor, because without a name or contact information, they don’t actually have to hire one.  This could very well an attempt to rebuild some credibility along the lines of “Trust us, they’re on the job.  Really.”  Either that, or it will be someone as far left as the rest of the paper who simply can’t be called on their work.

No matter.  Getting with the new journalistic poshness is fun.  More people should do this, just to get with the Times.

Filed under: Commentary and Opinion on September 27th, 2009 1 Comment

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