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.
Good decent people you say?
How about one of our sports reporters who during a conversation in the newsroom about a nursing home story proclaimed that all these old people were nothing but a burden on everyone. When asked what he thought about his own grandmother and what he’d do if she got sick he replied, in 100% seriousness...
“Then you pay for her. I got better things to do with my money.”
God strike me dead. I am not remotely kidding.
The only good reporters remaining are at retirement age or near it. The rest are agenda driven, self centered idiots that are there to collect a check, get free tickets and move up to a job in government thanks to all the ass kissing stories they write.
It is not for nothing that we seem to get all our news from overseas.... and within 2-5 years, the powers will prevent that too.