Sentences with phrase «bad as journalists»

First, scientists are as bad as journalists about understanding the public and providing needed and useful information for others.

Not exact matches

Journalists have lately been writing about the Watergate syndrome in almost apocalyptic terms: as not merely the worst political disaster in U.S. history but also the nemesis of U.S. world power and effective leadership in government at home.

Journalists get a lot of bad press — all of it, as it happens, written by themselves.

Our political life is made to look worse than it is not so much because journalists oppose any one tendency in politics as because they have come to oppose the political class in general.

Tough as it may be to stomach watching them slay the best and surrender to some of the worst, they are more than capable of doing the latter than a lot of supporters, pundits and journalists claim.

Veteran political journalist Al Hunt described Webb as «Hillary Rodham Clinton's worst nightmare.»

In their letter they stated that «as journalists they must fish out bad things in society but we must also appreciate the good ones....

Overclaimed expenses are bad enough, but throw in alleged flipping to minimise her tax bill, as well as a special adviser's apparent use of the culture secretary's role in press regulation to menace a journalist, and the scandal becomes utterly poisonous.

The New Patriotic Party is claiming some journalists have been paid whopping sums of money by the John Mahama administration to keep their focus on the internal happenings of the NPP, as opposed to bad governance the people have been subjected to under the seven - year rule of the NDC government.

She will discuss state politics, her trials and tribulations as a female, entrepreneurial journalist, her best and worst interviews and the future of public radio.

He's the kind of self - styled intellectual journalist in politics who caused so much trouble in 20th century politics, not a bad man, decent enough in his way, but not as smart as he thinks he is, vain with it.

Addressing journalists later, he reiterated that he expected his performance, as a laconic war veteran who rescues young women from sex traffickers, to earn him bad reviews.

When asked by journalist Raffaella Serini if he and Crowe felt like «bad men» during the film, Gosling misheard the last two words of the question as «Batman.»

Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) is a disgraced journalist and tends to lean towards facts and evidence; Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is a force to be reckoned with as the hacker with a taser and bad attitude.

None of the timelines function well on their own — the setting furthest in the future, in which Tom Hanks plays a tribesman in distant - future Hawaii after the fall, is least convincing, but Halle Berry as a journalist snooping around a nuclear reactor in «70s California is nearly as bad — but the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts.

In concerns to Richard Jenkins it's sad to say that the usually reliable veteran is endowed with the films worst and most wasteful role as journalist Richard Shellburn, most of his scenes border on downright embarrassing and it's a role he would soon rather forget.

Worse yet, as movie budgets increase, marketing departments try to safeguard their investments by developing newer and more expedient ways of sorting friend from foe, the «studio shills» (as Armond White of the now - defunct City Sun in Brooklyn tarred them) from the independent - minded journalists.

What's worse, people of color and underrepresented groups are defined by journalists covering these events, who themselves don't reflect the ethnic composition of our country as a whole.

As journalist Louis Menand put it, «The experts performed worse than they would have if they had simply assigned an equal probability to all three outcomes... Human beings who spend their lives studying the state of the world, in other words, are poorer forecasters than dart - throwing monkeys.»

For reasons that I can discern only as an attempt to justify his own existence, said journalist is making the shifter out to be the worst thing since outboard fuel tanks, or possibly Felicity's short hair cut.

There were great designers such as Louis Bleriot, who flew across the English Channel, the first man to do so, with a foot so badly burned that he had to be lifted in and out of his seat; Thomas Scott Baldwin, «Cap» t Tom,» inventor of the flexible parachute and incomparable showman, who almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, who after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador took to aviation and within months became the preeminent flyer in the world; Harriet Quimby, an actress and journalist who cajoled flying lessons from her employer to become the first woman to receive a pilot's license and then the first to cross the English Channel; and Glenn Curtiss's most famous flyer, Lincoln Beachey, perhaps the finest aviator the world has ever seen, a man who boasted so many «firsts,» «bests,» and «never before dones» that his exploits would beggar credibility had they not all been documented by eyewitnesses.

At the same time, to dismiss games entirely would make me as bad as the sensationalist journalists I hate so much.

George Stobbart is an excellent lead character with his humour and sarcasm and Nico Collard is just as good as a helpful investigative journalist with her charm and intelligence, alongside an entire supporting cast of brilliant characters that each standout from one another, regardless of if they are the good or bad guys.

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Say whatever you want about Dean Takahashi or that yahoo from Polygon that couldn't play Doom that well, but jumping to extreme of labeling every journalist as «bad at games» is a stretch that instantly illegitimates your comments.

Saatchi published a number of books, including Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue (2012), in which he answered questions from readers and journalists, and Beyond Belief; Racist, Sexist, Rude, Crude, and Dishonest (2015), a collection of older advertisements that are now widely seen as offensive.

1) press ignoring the Downing Street memo 2) media using retired generals, who have conflicts of interest with the Pentagon and defense contractors, as military analysts 3) holding fake FEMA press conferences with fake reporters 4) planting fake reporters at Whitehouse press conferences to ask friendly questions (Jeff Gannon) 5) Whitehouse secretly paying columnists outrageous sums to write favorable stories 6) Pentagon writing fake stories in Iraqi newspapers 7) political hacks rewriting the findings of scientific reports 8) putting journalists in jail for reporting wrongdoing 9) press basically ignoring the Justice Dept. Scandal even though it's worse than Watergate 10) the press basically ignoring voting irregularities 11) press ignoring Gov. Siegelman scandal 12) the Whitehouse using Newspeak when announcing legislation (ie.

Such studies use SRES input — so science journalists will always have to add «oh yeah, but in reality things will be worse» as a final note to their articles.

Journalists are trained to look for alternative views on a story and, as a general principle for achieving fairness and reducing subjectivity across a variety of story situations it is not a bad one.

Veteran New York Times science writer Andy Revkin calls it «my worst misstep as a journalist in 26 years.»

journalists will write anything as long as they're paid... noone wants bad news... AGW is bad news... public is being lied to.

Sadly, it's also riled up the agency into investigating the matter in a manner that can be described as clumsy at best, and nefarious at worst: it's filed a First Information Report, or a complaint, with the police, accusing the journalist and the paper of a number of offences, including cheating by impersonation, and forgery.