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To: jmc1969

Oh right....forged CBS memos, etc etc.

Are journalists really this stupid? I must say, I knew they were spewing leftist propaganda, but I respected their intelligence prior to the 2000 election.

Now I realize how incompetent and over-rated they are. Watergate elevated them to a position they did not deserve. They are mere hacks - every day the bloggers expose just how lazy and incompetent they are.


7 posted on 09/11/2005 11:20:55 AM PDT by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Fenris6

Actually, the ARE that stupid.

When I went to Wayne State University in Deetroit in the early 1970's the easiest major by far was journalism (as long as you toed the Socialist line of course). The second easiest was teaching.


23 posted on 09/11/2005 11:27:52 AM PDT by 43north (If you're not liberal at 20 you have no heart. If you're still liberal at 40 you have no brain.)
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To: Fenris6

You know the old comment by Mark Twain: Reporters can investigate and do research, or they can simply repeat what is told to them -- both approaches pay the same.


28 posted on 09/11/2005 11:29:26 AM PDT by megatherium
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To: Fenris6
They are mere hacks - every day the bloggers expose just how lazy and incompetent they are.

Not really - their job is to produce entertaining filler to go between the ads and the efficient way to do this is to recycle press releases; no bothersome asking of questions, no wasted time or money checking for accuracy, just rephrase the handout and slip it between the ads. This is what journalism is and journalists do it quite competently.

31 posted on 09/11/2005 11:30:22 AM PDT by Grut
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To: Fenris6
Are journalists really this stupid?

Yes and arrogant SOB's also.

85 posted on 09/11/2005 12:00:46 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Fenris6
Journalists really are by and large this stupid by their own statements.

Many are from small unranked colleges who may or may not have finished degrees so they have little if any subject matter expertise and reasoning ability. The media elites with "back east" snooty degrees are Politburo agenda driven appuratchiks; most displayed their herd instincts and appetites as Clintons' coprophagics.

The one undeniable truth is that this Water World Plantation mass suicide pit must never again be developed even with private money. Raze everything below sea level and burn it for future sport fishing.

102 posted on 09/11/2005 12:16:03 PM PDT by SevenDaysInMay (Federal judges and justices serve for periods of good behavior, not life. Article III sec. 1)
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To: Fenris6
Are journalists really this stupid?

In a word: Yes.

119 posted on 09/11/2005 12:38:19 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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