This is a great article D.B., thanks for sharing it with us! I encourage everyone to read the full article, and I have forwarded it to many on my political mailing list,
Keith On Oct 24, 7:09 pm, Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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-obl... > > -- > *~@):~{>- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
