Posted on 12/28/2018 5:51:06 AM PST by NOBO2012
"Please don't tell my mother Im a journalist; she thinks I sell crack at a strip club."
When the ball drops in Times Square New Year's Eve, it will be aimed, at least metaphorically, at all those who are demonizing and attacking journalists and their profession.
The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment, which together orchestrate the iconic midnight celebration, says that the event this year will officially celebrate "journalists and press freedom" by making the Committee to Protect Journalists its official charity. That is the group that, before President Trump was elected, took the unprecedented step of declaring the Republican candidate a threat to press freedom "unknown in modern history. Multichannel News
Well move over 2018 #MeToo victims, journalists will be taking your place as next years objects of victimology. Accepting the award for 2019s grievance group will be Brian Williams and Dan Rather.
But seriously? Honoring JournOlists on New Years Eve? I dont think thats the sort of Adoration of the Magi Da Fabriano had in mind.
Nor do I think that any journalist today is worthy to be called magus (not to be confused with maggot).
Right, because the last one sunk under its own weight.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
“What gives the muskrat his musk?”, Alex.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........................
.........telling the truth every now and then would be a good start.
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