And as payment for their complicity in all that, various journalists of one sort or another are being beheaded by ISIS. You’d think they’d get the hint by now. I guess they figured the first journalist (a jew, Daniel Pearl) was just because he was a Jew.
[I know this is harsh and probably impolite whatever, but it seems journalists only start thinking when their professions and their lives are at stake].
I was one for many years. the truth is that most reporters are not smart enough to remember to wipe. In recent years college kids learned it’s an easy degree so they do that. Some because its easy, others see it as a path to use all the ‘special’ mom told them they were filled with. Ask a J school grad from the past decade what the 5ws are and you get blank stares.
I used to ask that every time we hired one at the paper I was at. (’we’ in the general sense as I wasn’t involved in hiring). Most had no clue.
Who What When Where Why is the foundation of journalism.
This is the only good outcome from the rise of ISIS.
I applaud their efforts.