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To: dirtboy; Wonder Warthog
Sorry, but it is poor writing to not spell out your acronyms - don’t blame Wonder Warthog for not knowing what you are talking about when you mention ‘SPJ’ without first spelling it out.

Gee, if someone is writing with pretentious authority about professional journalists, then it seems rather obvious. One wouldn't insult a poster who railed about the federal judiciary by believing he might not know what the SCOTUS is, and one would assume that a FReeper pontificating broadly and harshly about professional journalists would be familiar with the Society of Professional Journalists, its membership, and its activities.

51 posted on 01/04/2010 12:26:34 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring
"Gee, if someone is writing with pretentious authority about professional journalists, then it seems rather obvious. One wouldn't insult a poster who railed about the federal judiciary by believing he might not know what the SCOTUS is, and one would assume that a FReeper pontificating broadly and harshly about professional journalists would be familiar with the Society of Professional Journalists, its membership, and its activities."

Dingy, a major rule of good writing is to ALWAYS spell out your acronyms. The above might get past your first response, but not your second. I'm not a reporter, and don't know what organizations they have, nor am I interested in the same. I'm talking about the facts on the ground, as evidenced daily by what I see in the media. If a "Society of Professional Journalists" exists, then it's either failing miserably, or has a very strange idea about what professional ethics are.

But this is about none of that, this is about your desire to play head games. Now kiss off, twit.

53 posted on 01/04/2010 3:07:21 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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