[RexBeach]

Edward R. Murrow was a journalist.

The White House Press Corps are reporters, and only just.

[presidio9]

[Veto!]

Excellent point.

As a college girl, I worked as an intern for United Press at both Democrat and Republican conventions, attached to White House Press Corps photographers. My job was to write down names of everyone they photographed and of course I attended parties every night with the news crew. Got to know a lot of well-known, respected journalists.

This was back in the Kennedy days and even then, the old time journalists were scratching their heads about the "empty suits" elbowing into their profession. The younger people lacked passion, humor, and common sense and even then tended to be ideologues.

In the years since, journalists have become news readers, primarily concerned about how they look on camera, educated in increasingly leftist J-schools where they are graded on political correctness rather than thinking and writing ability. I see them struggling to apply political correctness to the international scene. It's so clearcut at home where white men are always bad and minorities always good. They don't have a clue who to bash in a complex situation like Sunni vs. Shi'ite.