the IDIOT

helen thomas, everybody’s favorite house pet, ragged uncomfortable shoe, and statist extraordinaire, weighs in on the trumped out blogger/journalist controversy:

Where do the bloggers fit in? They may have something to say — and nobody is stopping them. Still, the description “journalist” does not apply to what they do.

Edward Wasserman, a professor of journalism at Washington & Lee University, defines a journalist as someone who “is professionally dedicated to truth seeking.”
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Tom Rosenstiel, head of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, said the proper question is not whether you call yourself a journalist, but whether your work constitutes journalism.

“A journalist tries to get the facts right” and tries to get close to a “verifiable truth,” not to take sides but “to inspire public discussion,” he said.

This isn’t a requirement for bloggers with axes to grind.

i love seeing the fear of a tired creep discovering a new competition attack. candidly, i felt a little bit of it when good studio recording equipment became widely available to the average musician years ago (my primary business was recording). all these tired-ass hack “reporters” with their shibboleths of “objectivity” and “neutrality” can get stuffed. who needs somebody trying to get in tight with the white house press goons? not anybody concerned about his life, that’s sure. the “objective” press corp is far more damaging than any run-amock blog world could ever be. and it’s these same bastards who were “objectively” reporting that microsoft was a monopoly that should be hacked into pieces. what the fuck do they think the MSM were? (FTR, neither was a monopoly.) bleh! it’s too transparent to believe that they even bother posturing.

here’s a challenge to dipshit thomas, should she ever google her way to this page: find me any post of mine in which i’ve told an untruth. find me a single fucking post, you fucking turd. quest for truth? i have no readers to please. this blog, apart from the trappings and jokes, is dedicated to truth. i’ll guarantee that my average post blows your doors off in the truth department. for example, let’s look at your “reporting” on any of the unconstitutional areas which compose most of the federal government today. do you have no responsibility to state, at least once a year, that you are only reporting what some interested pukes have told you, and that independent research makes it clear that they are lying? truth? you should have that sentence turned upside down and put in flames on your tombstone. you are an imposter.

ahem… but she wasn’t finished:

Professional reporters and editors are trained to understand the need for neutrality in straight news stories. They also have been trained in the ethics that distinguish their profession.

It’s in the nature of our work that the public has every opportunity to scrutinize what we do. No one lasts long in the news business if there are deliberate distortions of the news.

“trained to understand”. right. training. so important. it’s the people who don’t need training who intimidate thomas the relic. oh, but she’s scrutinized by the untrained public! typical statist contradiction, just as bastiat wrote about the politicians who must guide the stupid public — the same stupid public that chose them, in a fit of rare, outrageous perspicacity.

i should stop wasting my time on this, i guess. but i want people to at least read her nonsense. can’t wait until most of them are out of business. and that’s what will happen, as the barriers to entering her “field” continue to disappear. it’s called competititon, dipshit. embrace it or fade away. spinning outright crap speeds your demise.

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