Comments on: The Problem with Journalism Today

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By: Adam Mk 1 Mod 0

Adam Mk 1 Mod 0 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:10:21 +0000

“They are filth.”

Hahaha!

By: 4 of 7

4 of 7 — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:36:10 +0000

“The newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, conthrols th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward.”
Mr. Dooley, 1902.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:43:56 +0000

Sorry to hear your ‘news,’ seanmahair.

By: seanmahair

seanmahair — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:23:30 +0000

After almost 30 years in journalism my uber Conservative husband was given his walking papers. He’s first remark, “well at least I’m not sleeping with the enemy anymore”. He does not intend to go back into the fray, at least until something happens to bring the community back around to the center.

Armageddon perhaps, World War Three or maybe the Second Coming. Of course could you imagine the spin they’d put on that. I can see it now. They’d report that Barak had ordered Jesus to come back and told him how things should be. Then they’d report that God the Father was replacing the real Savior with our buddy Barak because he wanted to be in line with Affirmative Action guidelines.

I’m sorry but from the front lines I can tell you there is not a jot, a tittle, an iota of hope the people in that industry are going to change.

By: hatless in hattiesburg

hatless in hattiesburg — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:14:34 +0000

Hey! I resemble… er… resent that remark!

By: island girl

island girl — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:09:58 +0000

Coming home on the bus I had the guilty thought that I was too quick to pull the trigger on all journalists. I love the NY Post and The Wall Street Journal and National Review and Rush’s Newsletter and look at all you cyber journalists ! But seriously, the creeps who call themselves journalists should be hung (NY Slimes, Slime Magazine, and all television newscasters) except Foxnews. They are communist sympathizers, socialist numbskulls and self adoring morons that perpetuate lies, mischaracterization, assassination of morale and assist terrorists in their total dishonest propaganda. They are proponents of drudge and I love for sanity to listen to Rush and Mark Levin when I come home. I know I’ve said this before but maybe somebody will want to try it and it will change their life.

By: ussjimmycarter

ussjimmycarter — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:26:57 +0000

There are no journalists left! All the young ones come out of left wing journalism schools taught by the current dolts! And now we are stuck voting for a Liberal Republican or a Super Duper Hyper Liberal Democrat…sigh…

By: Herpules

Herpules — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:18:45 +0000

I think a lot of journalists feel that being an asshat is close enough.

By: island girl

island girl — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:17:11 +0000

Re: Journalists: “Once again this is because, much like rats and cockroaches, they wear no hats. They are subhuman. They are filth.”

Dittos !

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:51:55 +0000

Personally, I don’t think we should limit it to journalists. I have long been of the opinion that gentlemen should wear hats whenever possible. It adds an element of class that our country is sorely lacking these days.

By: George

George — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:16:03 +0000

Being hatless is a legacy of he who made way for the obamessiah – john (the baptist) kennedy. kennedy didn’t wear hats, so no one in his “camalot” wore them either. The rest of the country followed him over that cliff along with too many others.

Fortunately, big ears and a big mouth are defects, not a styles.

By: Scooter Van Neuter

Scooter Van Neuter — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:01:08 +0000

I couldn’t agree more, that’s why you’ll see me proudly wearing my “press” hat in my home page photo (below).

Wearing this hat reminds me to always be professional, accurate, and most importantly, non-partisan.

http://peacemoonbeam.typepad.com/Press_small.jpg

By: the witch

the witch — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:36:34 +0000

You always make me laugh, no matter how glum things are…thank you.

If you dress like a pirate, that means we can talk like a pirate everyday and make monkey faced liberals walk the plank, aye?

By: Amer-I-Can

Amer-I-Can — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:25:42 +0000

Thank you Andrew, there may be hope for us after all.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:52:55 +0000

As a student at the University of Nebraska school of journalism, I promise that the first thing I will purchase after graduation will be a fedora.

By: Exploding Spleen

Exploding Spleen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:33:13 +0000

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/071307/common-dignity.gif

By: Shiningcity

Shiningcity — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:35:51 +0000

Matt Drudge still wears the hat.

When a “reporter” came to interview me as an “expert” opinion on the measles epidemic for local news, she had on a nice blouse, make up, “big” hair…whole thing…..and ………..sweat pants with a hole in the knee. They are idiots.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:13:11 +0000

Even the network news king, the grand poobah of news, Mr. NBC himself, Tom Brokah (aka Tom Brokeback) doesn’t wear a hat! I mean, what’s up with that?

I’d love to see him gag to death on his own flatulence.

By: silaS marreD

silaS marreD — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:12:50 +0000

I agree. There were so many great movies about reporters in the 1930′s and 1940′s back when they wore cool hats! I don’t think there has been a good newspaper picture in the last 50 years; probably because of widespread hatlessness.

By: Son of Bob

Son of Bob — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:48:00 +0000

Journalism changed when journalists began being celebrities. It helped launch the era of “journalists” trying to “make a difference”, creating the news instead of reporting the news, and trying to “make a name for themselves”. Journalism is not supposed to be a glamorous job.

By: sixpckr

sixpckr — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:40:50 +0000

What about wingtip shoes. Seems to me if you’re gonna require hats, the least they could do is finish the look with wingtips. Let’s make that a rule too. Then we’d know they were really serious.

By: MarkoMancuso

MarkoMancuso — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:26:37 +0000

I say we hang them and burn their house.

By: Master Shake

Master Shake — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:21:57 +0000

I fail to see why we shouldn’t burn down their houses just because they’re wearing hats….

Actually, I think they deserve the traditional punishment for treason, but I’ll take house-burning as a barely-acceptable substitute.