"Still, some *top professionals* HAPPEN TO WORK at Fox!"
What's that? You mean, professional cameramen? (No disrespect to my cameramen friends!)
To all those feeling a need to stand up forth the "professionalism" of some writers and editors working there: Wise up!
Journalists of integrity do not have bylines with the North Korean News Service ("Kim Yong Nam Congratulates Zambian President! "), neither did they didn't write copy for the Daily Worker. Nor do they accept employment from Fox "News."
When you go cooking up rallies calling the President Pol Pot, do P.R. for them, and then cover the staged rallies yourselves, you are taking yourself out of legitimate competition for the Edward R. Murrow Award. It's no defense to say it's just your employer and you're somehow not complicit, because you are and you bloody well know it (and so do your colleagues).
An exception can be made for people who are both, (1) truly struggling to feed their families in hard times and (2) trying to get the hell out there to a respectable job as very soon as possible. An exception can NOT be made for journalists who found it "just a good fit" or who like the money.
Just as a prostitute cannot be regarded as a nice girl who merely appreciates all that cash, although clearly one might understand if she is in an extreme situation with children to feed. When you walk into that door voluntarily and absent those extreme circumstances, you are leaving your professionalism and integrity behind. (And you can ask her (or him, if perchance a gigolo): it's hard to walk back out.)
You are just as much a whore as is either a greedy prostitute who has other choices, or (even worse) that smirking, smarmy Chris Wallace. It's a choice you make, and it has consequences. Own them.
And don't you let NOBODY TELL YOU DIFFERENT!
To all those feeling a need to stand up forth the "professionalism" of some writers and editors working there: Wise up!
Journalists of integrity do not have bylines with the North Korean News Service ("Kim Yong Nam Congratulates Zambian President! "), neither did they didn't write copy for the Daily Worker. Nor do they accept employment from Fox "News."
When you go cooking up rallies calling the President Pol Pot, do P.R. for them, and then cover the staged rallies yourselves, you are taking yourself out of legitimate competition for the Edward R. Murrow Award. It's no defense to say it's just your employer and you're somehow not complicit, because you are and you bloody well know it (and so do your colleagues).
An exception can be made for people who are both, (1) truly struggling to feed their families in hard times and (2) trying to get the hell out there to a respectable job as very soon as possible. An exception can NOT be made for journalists who found it "just a good fit" or who like the money.
Just as a prostitute cannot be regarded as a nice girl who merely appreciates all that cash, although clearly one might understand if she is in an extreme situation with children to feed. When you walk into that door voluntarily and absent those extreme circumstances, you are leaving your professionalism and integrity behind. (And you can ask her (or him, if perchance a gigolo): it's hard to walk back out.)
You are just as much a whore as is either a greedy prostitute who has other choices, or (even worse) that smirking, smarmy Chris Wallace. It's a choice you make, and it has consequences. Own them.
And don't you let NOBODY TELL YOU DIFFERENT!
