I understand where he is coming from as I once worked for a newspaper. The word journalist does not apply to many of todays people in the profession. If you can still call it a profession, more like whore-mongering. but then even whores have some honor.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:35 PM, d.b.baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Q] - The traditional media is playing a very, very dangerous > game. With its readers, with the Constitution, and with its own fate. > > The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this > election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over > the last few months I've found myself slowly moving from shaking my > head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the > screen of my television and my laptop computer. > > But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I've begun — for the > first time in my adult life — to be embarrassed to admit what I do for > a living. A few days ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did > for a living, I replied that I was "a writer", because I couldn't > bring myself to admit to a stranger that I'm a journalist. > > You need to understand how painful this is for me. I am one of > those people who truly bleeds ink when I'm cut. I am a fourth > generation newspaperman. As family history tells it, my great- > grandfather was a newspaper editor in Abilene, Kansas during the last > of the cowboy days, then moved to Oregon to help start the Oregon > Journal (now the Oregonian). My hard-living - and when I knew her, > scary - grandmother was one of the first women reporters for the Los > Angeles Times. And my father, though profoundly dyslexic, followed a > long career in intelligence to finish his life (thanks to word > processors and spellcheckers) as a very successful freelance writer. > I've spent thirty years in every part of journalism, from beat > reporter to magazine editor. And my oldest son, following in the > family business, so to speak, earned his first national by-line before > he earned his drivers license. > > So, when I say I'm deeply ashamed right now to be called a > "journalist", you can imagine just how deep that cuts into my soul. - > > http://pajamasmedia.com/edgelings/2008/10/24/editing-their-way-to-oblivion-journalism-sacraficed-for-power-and-pensions/ > > > -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
