They really aren’t.
Oh!, the stories I could tell...
I bet! Sometime we gotta talk..... Frankly, I don’t have much, if any now, for the profession but I think it’s because they (as a whole) have sacrificed principles for ideology. Regardless of the intelligence, a good and decent person would not actively conspire to hide the fact that our government is in control by a narcissistic madman.
I know what you mean. I’ve spent many years in Canadian journalism and it’s the same. Getting worse, too, as more come out of the school system.
I taught Journalism for a couple of years and would start by playing Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry” as an introduction. They no longer ask me back.
Cheers,
Jim