05-24-2017, 07:25 AM
(05-18-2017, 01:57 PM)guohua Wrote:(05-18-2017, 07:20 AM)Ninurta Wrote:Mr. G. just asked if you remembered back in the 60's and 70's when we has Real Investigative Reporters?(05-15-2017, 07:28 PM)guohua Wrote: Excellent Work.
Very well put together with the information made readily available.
I can almost bet you, no-one in our current Alphabetic agency's are are currently read that online magazine.
We don't believe it is Eyes and Ears Open Investigative Field Work Anymore,,, It's Crisis Management!
Just Our Humble Opinion.
Uncle Charlie used to have a whole section of analysts who did nothing but scour open-source publications such as magazines and newspapers for intel, and who then correlated and combined that intel into actionable intel. They don't do that any more?
Kinda makes ya wonder who in the hell is running this show, y'know?
Those reporters from the 60's carried over to the 70's and late 70's before the 80's.
The 80's seen the end of good or real investigative reporters.
Put to make a longer story shorter.
He says they used to use them as information sources and they very often were correct.
Yes, News papers and magazines at one time was a great source to watch and plan a move against the Bad Guys.
At that time, their photographers would travel world wide and write and take pictures, often in places we couldn't get into to.
Sorry we derail the thread.
That's not a derail, that's an explanation, and a good one. I can see why they don't use sources like that any more, what with all of the opinion and "entertainment" that has been injected into what was once "news". Yup, I recall those days, and I recall that as a result of such activities, the occasional journalist was detained, sometimes tried and imprisoned for "espionage" when he was just doing his job. I also recall a couple of reporters who were outright executed in Nicaragua in the late 70's, when the politicization of the news was starting. Those stalwart souls picked the wrong side to defend and promote, rather than just straight reporting, and got X-ed out for it.
Being a commie or a sympathizer was a hard, and sometimes short, life back then, unlike now.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’