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"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!
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Fox News = National Enquirer.
Although, it is The Star that Murdoch owns, is it not? I don't know because I do not pay close enough attention to that stuff. Whatever. Fox News is a supermarket checkout tabloid They may employ professionals, but they are not professional journalists and the word 'integrity' is lost on them.
October 25, 2009 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
They want credit for integrity, though, and they are leaning on real journalists to give it to them. "I have worked in Washington for X years, I hired your bosses boss back when, laddah-laddah.
If they really are big shots, their sell-out to the Fox propaganda cabal is all the more disgraceful. With apologies to The Prisoner:
New No. 2: We want... professional respect!
Prisoner: You won't get it!
October 25, 2009 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brit Hume is a fascist pig.
There I said it.
Wallace is a prick who must have had plastic surgery at one time.
One man is decent on the entire network, and that is it and I cannot even recall his name.
October 25, 2009 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Brit Hume is a fascist pig.
There I said it."
And *I* am glad you did, DD. Fox was a godsend for Hume! Imagine: fascist pig trapped in journalist's body over at ABC! Yearning to break free!
Enter Roger Ailes! And the inner fascist is caged no more!
October 26, 2009 4:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Beautifully put OT. It's that deep voice and his demeanor that attempts to demonstrate that he is the adult in the room.
God, sometimes I would like to bash him with a baseball bat.
October 26, 2009 6:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
You and me both, brother!! So wrong about everything, so utterly shown up, and yet fascistically arrogant and superior as ever!
October 26, 2009 9:31 AM | Reply | Permalink