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To: skinowski who wrote (691215)	9/18/2019 12:34:00 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	8 Recommendations Recommended By Alan Smithee Bruce L lightshipsailor pak73 robert a belfer and 3 more members Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794337

choose to become journalists A few years ago I listened to a C-Span symposium featuring young journalists. There was a broad consensus that their primary mission is advocacy. That advocacy is in service of a vision that they have been taught came to them through revelation they generally consider divine. Not unlike cockroaches, they'll be hard to get rid of.

To: skinowski who wrote (691215)	9/18/2019 2:10:52 PM
From: Thehammer	2 Recommendations Recommended By AJ Muckenfus skinowski Respond to of 794337

f you think of it, it’s a real puzzle. People choose to become journalists, go to good, expensive schools, work hard, deal with the couch casting scene, if they must.... all in order to get a journo career going. Don’t they understand that credibility is the only thing they have?? Without it, who needs them? Journalism schools turn out fiction novelist as well