I take exception with this story a bit. I don’t believe that reporters are dumber any more than I believe the stories about conservatives and religious people being dumber or GW Bush being the lowest-IQ president in history. It’s not OK for that to be said about us, so I’m not going to go quoting some made-up study about media people being dumber.
Now having said that, I do think that media people are more prone to “do as I say, not as I do” behavior and operating on double-standards. They’re more than happy to make fun of people in their newscasts and/or articles but then it’s OK for them to drink, use drugs, and act like jerks. I don’t think they’re actually dumber, I just think they’re a part of the population that chooses to be dumb. They just tend to be the type of people who engage in lowlife behavior.
They have the easiest major in college with the lightest class load and homework load, so they pick up substance abuse in college and take it right with them into the working world. News media is a great place to be a functioning addict, all you’ve gotta do is submit articles to the boss telling them what he/she wants to hear. Fact-checking and good writing has clearly gone right out of the window. For people prone to lowlife behavior, having a lot of time on your hands is a dangerous situation. They’re almost as bad as lawyers when it comes to substance abuse and mental problems. They get such an easy ride all the time that the first time they face some real adversity, they can’t handle it.
Journalism is the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information. It is also the product of these activities. …Note the words “creating” and “presenting”, and the absence of the word “reporting”. Relativistic language. Fertile ground for ideologues to make up narratives, and for especially vile people such as Ben Rhodes to use as a playground.
...”They have the easiest major in college with the lightest class load and homework load, so they pick up substance abuse in college and take it right with them into the working world. News media is a great place to be a functioning addict, all you’ve gotta do is submit articles to the boss telling them what he/she wants to hear. Fact-checking and good writing has clearly gone right out of the window. For people prone to lowlife behavior, having a lot of time on your hands is a dangerous situation. They’re almost as bad as lawyers when it comes to substance abuse and mental problems. They get such an easy ride all the time that the first time they face some real adversity, they can’t handle it.”...
I have long believed that journalists and those who give information out to the public should undergo random drug testing just to insure that the frontal lobes still work. Manipulation of the masses through the manipulation of lies of any kind is a serious crime in my view.