Do your job, please
Ok - I’ve had it. Did anyone ever say investigation was easy?
I’ve had to read about Joe Spector complain that DA Soares didn’t tie up every document he recently released pertaining to troopergate in a nice, neat little bow. Maybe one document that has a “smoking gun” tag attached to it.
I’m just starting to go through it, and it’s an absolute mess. Every page is it’s own pdf file and not even scrollable or searchable. So it appears every page is its own file, making it that much more difficult to review. None of the files are titled, there’s no index.
One gets a sense of his [Soares] irritation in the enormous document dump he carried out the other day - thousands of page of Troopergate stuff, testimony, etc., all of it as hard to read and assimilate as is possible to provide on the Web.
Boo freaking who.
You guys are reporters - dig, find, expose and enlighten.
The media getting spoon fed information? Memories of Iraq immediately come to mind and how did that work out?
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I’ve got just three words for you stlo7:
F@@k you buddy.
You’ve got no concept of what it’s like to go through boxes of documents or hundreds of non-indexed individual PDF’s looking for information. It’s going to take a lot of time, probably a lot of time Joe doesn’t have and his employers won’t give him.
Your assumption that he’s “complaining” because it’s just too hard to go through all that info only betrays your vigorous ignorance about newsgathering and the state of today’s media.
With that blog post, Joe’s informing the public that a public official released public information in such a way that it’s exceedingly difficult for the public to gain any relevant knowledge from the documents.
That’s not complaining you twit. It’s reporting a fact.
As a working reporter, I have to say we do sometimes wonder why the hell we bother…right side, left side, you’re all uninformed, ignorant jackasses.
Why don’t you do your job and demand your media companies stop cutting staff and demanding their already overworked employees fill their broadcasts, web pages and newspapers with stupid time-consuming stories about vapid topics like backyard grilling?
If you’d be such a bang-up reporter, why not go and show us all how it’s done?
Don’t forget to make sure every one of your stories has the requisite two sides, the requisite number of quoted minority sources, hits the right age and wealth demographic and takes no more than one-third your eight-hour workday to produce.
I never hear Josh Marshall making complaints like this.
Remember Woodward and Bernstein? At least, when Woodward was Woodward of Woodward and Bernstein. Newspaper and television journalism have evolved (devolved?) into the simple recitation of whatever a “reporter” is told, with an interview of a Republican for “balance” if the initial interview is by anyone left of center, or even center. Here’s an interesting blog on journalism:
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/
Somebody call the waaahbulance.
John Edwards is a disgusting lying pig.
And your point is?
Why don’t you do your job and demand your media companies stop cutting staff and demanding their already overworked employees fill their broadcasts, web pages and newspapers with stupid time-consuming stories about vapid topics like backyard grilling?
We do quite a lot of that, specifically criticizing the “stupid time-consuming stories about vapid topics like backyard grilling”.
Obviously, your comment demands a longer response but when it comes to asking the media to focus on more important stories, we’re on the same page as you are.
Ouch. Back at you kwitbtchng. Although I’d add “…and the horse you rode in on” This is how the famed media responds, assuming you are indeed as you claim - media, with a profanity laden tirade. Great.
Everyone else - comments like these are the exception not the rule so don’t expect them to be approved in the future.
Here is the deal. Joe and Tom wrote about Joe’s difficulty with DA Soares document dump ON A BLOG. A medium that, by its very nature, allows for things like screen captures of the root directory of the CD someone purchased for $90 dollars. Or even posting of individual PDFs that demonstrate how difficult the file organization really is.
In fact, someone could have documented the legal requirements DA Soares followed to see if indeed something was amiss. Did Soares do anything wrong legally? I don’t know I looking for a reporter to tell me.
Because as you say
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Maybe - but that simply requires additional digging and using the blog medium for what it can support.
Images, documents, links, all could have been used. Heck - Someone could have actually enlisted bloggers to help review the material now couldn’t they if they were really interested.
But instead we get a still photo of a CD and still photo of a pile of boxes and folks saying how difficult their job is now going to be.
All the the rest of the accompanying drivel. …be a better reporter, and such - I’ve never claimed to be a reporter. I like writing about stuff that feeds reporters who can apply their journalist skills.
back at you.
I have to agree with stlo7 on this one…the vulgar reference is out of line. I may not always see eye to eye with stlo7 and probably drag that out longer than I should, still he is absolutely right. Mainstream media including publications you may work for kwithbtchng are lazy and non-informative. Blogs, and especially this one, have been providing info that the media doesn’t seem to catch or care about. So, instead of jumping down stlo7’s throat why don’t you do your job kwitbtchng and I will rest easy at night when you don’t because RT will be there to to report when you are wasting the public’s time making ridiculous comments on blogs!
Thanks Ghost. I appreciate the support.
I’m Just editorializing now, In general, I do believe that there are “good” reporters in “bad” media companies and a reporter’s work life is difficult. Still - This comment was uncalled for and unfounded.
If the post was to highlight the mess of the document dump - there are better ways to do it - the story should be about the DA troopergate doc dump dump not the reporter.
Well first off I agree with you.
But then again, don’t we bloggers get upset that the Senate doesn’t publish campaign finance information in searchable form, but only in PDF’s?
Obviously there’s a difference between advocating for a change in the “document dump policy” and complaining about a specific instance.
Still, I think that you were being too harsh, and kwitbtching was out of line, of course.