Much appreciated.
Regards,
Shodan
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I don’t think you are using “discretion” correctly here and I’m not entirely sure what you mean by this.
Could you clear this up?
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Discretion: judgment. The ability to freely evaluate the choices and act upon them; the power of critical thinking.
The press often lacks this type of discretion in choosing which stories to run because they are good and important and newsworthy, and which stories will simply make a buck.
I believe ascenray is using “discretion” to mean “the ability to be discreet, to conceal uncomfortable truths, to perpetuate secrecy.”
In the case of the media using discretion, there is some overlap between the definitions; I think the media sometimes fails to use its best judgment when deciding whether to keep a secret.
[QUOTE=Jonathan Chance]
Press here. I may be the only person in this thread for whom this is a literal, and not theoretical, issue.
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I’m a journalist too.
FWIW, I’m a former journalist too: radio news intern, college paper news editor, and reporter/editorial writer for a rural Ohio county newspaper. Obama was certainly within his rights, but no candidate should needlessly irritate the press. I think he’ll get a pass - hell, he already has - on this one.
[QUOTE=Spiff]
Obama played a taped episode of Lost.
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Without the express written consent of ABC Television? That’ll show up on an email for sure.
[QUOTE=Fish]
Discretion: judgment. The ability to freely evaluate the choices and act upon them; the power of critical thinking.
The press often lacks this type of discretion in choosing which stories to run because they are good and important and newsworthy, and which stories will simply make a buck.
I believe ascenray is using “discretion” to mean “the ability to be discreet, to conceal uncomfortable truths, to perpetuate secrecy.”
In the case of the media using discretion, there is some overlap between the definitions; I think the media sometimes fails to use its best judgment when deciding whether to keep a secret.
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That makes sense and I totally agree with you.
In today’s news climate there was no way Obama could have had a private meeting with Hillary if he informed the press about it. The only people Obama hurt were the reporters that couldn’t get the story.
It’s up to him to decide whether a private meeting was worth upsetting the press, but he had every right to make that decision.