The In The Tank “journalists” at The Politico admit what we already know:
OK, let’s just get this over with: Yes, in the closing weeks of this election, John McCain and Sarah Palin are getting hosed in the press, and at Politico.
And, yes, based on a combined 35 years in the news business we’d take an educated guess — nothing so scientific as a Pew study — that Obama will win the votes of probably 80 percent or more of journalists covering the 2008 election. Most political journalists we know are centrists — instinctually skeptical of ideological zealotry — but with at least a mild liberal tilt to their thinking, particularly on social issues.
So what?
So what? That’s their response? They might as well have been completely honest and just concluded with “So what, and fuck you.”
As I’ve said before, journalism as we once knew it is dead. The profession of “journalist” has now slipped below prostitute, pimp. loan shark, and crack whore.
At your next holiday party, you’d better off telling people you’re a registered sex offender than a journalist.
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So when people have a different point of view than you they are lower than Drug addicts, hoes? Not everyone has to think just like you.
What is going on with the MSM at first seems quite complicated, but really it’s not. You can try to obfuscate till hell freezes over, but when you strip away all the fluff, what’s happening is that they are attempting to deceive the American public.
In other words, the MSM is composed of a bunch of liars.
So, yeah, lower than crack whore is accurate.
“So when people have a different point of view than you they are lower than Drug addicts, hoes? Not everyone has to think just like you.”
You miss the point. If a writer wants to writes opinion pieces that’s fine, no problem. The word ‘journalist’ has a meaning, and it’s not the same as ‘pundit’ or ‘opinion columnist’.
Words mean things. When you write and opinion piece and call it a news story, then you are a liar, pure and simple.
Words mean things.
I’d say that’s pretty accurate, and I am a former journalist!
But don’t say the “profession of journalist” because profession implies that someone actually is professional and does the job they are suppose to do. Today’s journalist are not professional and they do not do the job they are suppose to do.
If they were “professional” there would be no cheering in the press box, and if they did the job they were suppose to do, Obama would not be where he is today!
Regardless of who becomes President, the media (particularly newspapers) will continue to die at an ever increasing rate.
And as a former journalist, I couldn’t be happier to see it happen.