I’ve found them to be voyeurs. Not in the action, lacking the courage to pursue anything tangible. Book smart, being well read is an important part of being an informed adult, but it’s no substitue for actually doing something with your life. People who do not write particularly well or look good in front of a camera accomplish an awful lot, but the journos look down their noses at them.
Yep! The thing that always stuns me is how clueless your average journalist is about the world. They’ve put up on CNN’s bottom ribbon that the space shuttle travels 17 times the speed of light. Their military “expert” is always the guy that hired on when the particular desk was vacant. I’ve seen journalists who thought that there was air on the moon and I saw one of their “science experts” ask his colleague why the space shuttle has to go so fast.