I disagree with this article - it’s a cover story. All journalists know they are scheming, sold-out liars. They work for money, fame and status - and that’s it. They consider themselves “realists” above the riff raff, and develop cruel, sarcastic personalities. At heart they are all precocious teenagers who live to party and get away with as much as they can. That’s the fun and excitement, to be part of the in crowd, to know secrets, to blackmail. They are terminally narcissistic and their language is designed solely to deceive. In short, they are evil whores, sold out to the highest bidder, shamelessly and with a smile. In many ways they are the nadir of the human race, even lower than politicians, bureaucrats or lawyers. They are the flies on the sh!t of life, and they breathe deeply and love every second of it. Their souls are utterly, completely lost.
re: All journalists know they are scheming, sold-out liars
Not all “journalists” know they are scheming. Example: Bill Kurtis of Chicago and Agent Orange fame.
Kurtis is the prototype for Ted Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Kurtis has no clue how he is used by his producer and others around him.
“Journalists” are on a continuum from the extreme of naivete to Alinsky-Machiavellian. Some are more naive on some aspects of journalism than others. Of those who are very much aware they are just mouthpieces for their producer some are aware the producer lies and they are repeating the lies while others are naive and don’t realize the producer lies ... even when they know that they are puppets of the producer.