Alan McNarie where are you?

[Rob Tucker]

Still hoping Alan will actually write something relatively comprehensive on the dilemma created by BIC's owner.

[TomK]

I suspect his location is between a rock and a hard place.

[missydog1]

I've heard of these things called investigative interviews, where the reporter doesn't simply accept nonsense crap and presses for a real explanation and follows up on inconsistencies.

Looks like no one around here does investigative journalism. []

Kathy

[Mendo]

Maybe slime-fests are beneath his standards, which would be to his journalistic credit.

[missydog1]

How would reporting on an actual criminal investigation of a local candidate for an election-related felony be considered a slimefest, Mendo?

And do you honestly think Tiff would not have covered every detail of such a story if she were reporting this season and she were not the subject? Did you read her relentless scrutiny of Jamae Kawauchi and of Dominic Yagong in 2012?

She was proud of her work there. She publicly chastised Jamae for avoiding interviews, but with the shoe on the other foot ...

And here is Alan with a news blog, an editorial position where he supposedly has free rein to cover the politics of 2014 without regard to Tiff's ownership of BIC. Yet not a mention from him that Stuart Maeda, our County elections clerk, found enough merit to voter fraud allegations to submit a complaint to HPD.

Front page news story on the HTH is not a legitimate story?

Hopefully Alan will have the integrity to walk away from BIC if he finds himself working for a boss who gave him editorial power in name only.

Kathy

[Rob Tucker]

Alan may have already quietly left BIC. His last by-line was Aug. 28th. All the by-lines since that date have been Tiffany - who I thought was staying away from her site throughout the campaign.

[PauHana]

The term "Journalist" has become like the word "Awesome" it doesn't seem to mean quite what it use to.

At one time a herd of 300,000 buffalo stretching from horizon to horizon was awesome, but now it's "that booger is awesome", or "this bubble gum is awesome".

It use to be a Journalist was someone like H. L. Mencken, Edward R. Murrow, or Bob Woodward, but now it's anyone who can string a bunch of words together, and gets
a name tag printed up:

. . I ARE A JOURNALIST !

[missydog1]

Interesting observation, Rob.
As I said somewhere else here, I have a good friend with irreproachable ethics who worked with Alan at the HIJ, and she has nothing but good to say about him, so I am rooting for Alan.

PauHana, lol, true. Tiffany does style herself a journalist, and I bought into it at first. She was a news reporter, with a bachelor's degree. Journalism, where a person studies journalistic ethics and history and trains to be a real journalist, is a master's program.

While I don't at all believe that a college degree makes or breaks a talent, it does relate to what kind of professional study a person has done. A reporter must be given a set of rules to follow, but a journalism student spends much more time studying the ethics and philosophy of journalism.

Tiffany was a reporter, and it is fine to be proud of becoming a reporter, but she seems to have no clue about ethics. She thinks she can just switch hats all the time and that makes it OK to behave in a way that would be unethical if one were wearing the other hat.

And seems to have extended the "switchable hat" MO to her theory of what constitutes a permanent primary residence.

Kathy

[PauHana]

Buying a hammer and saw doesn't make you a carpenter, buying a set of wrenches doesn't make you a mechanic. By the same standard buying a masters degree only gives you the tools, not the ability to be anything.

That said, however, buying a printing press or a website can make you a publisher. It does not take any particular skill or ability to spend money.

[missydog1]

quote:

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Originally posted by PauHana

buying a masters degree only gives you the tools, not the ability to be anything.

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Very true, and I tried to say that I do not believe a degree is any guarantee. However, going through 2-3 years of intense focus on the profession of journalism is an exposure to the ideology of the greats in the field. I'm only saying that Tiffany never went through any kind of formal training, but just jumped into gathering and telling stories, which made her a local reporter, not a journalist. But she could become a real journalist if she taught herself and adhered to professional standards.

Kathy