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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (56078)	3/19/2006 9:18:25 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 93284

The disgusting collection of self important elitists that you call journalists are incapable of connecting with the majority.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (56078)	3/19/2006 9:20:25 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 93284

Watergate accelerated an unhealthy trend in journalism. It began to attract over "educated" [read: overly indoctrinated] young people on messianic ego trips. They are too consumed with missionary zeal and an uncomprehending celebrity worship of the left (not stopping at Clinton, but extending as far as Castro, and beyond). They are burdened with the resentful upper crust's contempt and dread of their own society, and misapprehend it the way only missionaries or would-be colonial masters can. Consider Mary Mapes: by all evidence a person totally consumed by delusions of adequacy. Only in the bizarre world of high stakes journalism could a person so immune to facts survive even as long as she did. Ever since the regrettable Supreme Court decision in Sullivan v. New York Times American journalism has become increasingly divorced from the concept of consequences for proffering falsehoods. Why should Mary Mapes think anything would come of embracing an obvious and crude fabrication? Like Professor Harold Hill, she has come to believe that whatever she wants to believe is true, that wishing it to be so will make it so. There are far more charlatans like Mary Mapes in America's newsrooms than the cynical hardboiled curmudgeons of the 1930's film noir variety. And these self declared cynics are in fact naifs, believing every and any far fetched concoction if it fits their preconceived notions. American journalism needs a new birth. It is not the technology that is destroying American newspapers, it is the practitioners.