Letters to the Editor
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@Bandito
Stop reporting on the reporters and trying to claim innocence from bias. Please start using the term "we" and "I" rather than "they" when speaking about pundits.... Bandito
I think the word you're looking for is "narcissists". The press in this country is so taken with their own celebrity that they go on and on about themselves, ad nauseaum, "they (meaning 'we') believe this or that...blah, blah, blah." They're full of assertions, baseless, unsupportable assertions, about what it is that "most people" or "most Americans" think or believe or do. What they mean is that whatever it is their describing, that's what most of the people THEY know think or say or do. In other words other pundits and other so-called 'journalists', or just their friends and families. It's the most self-referential, narcissistic pile of baloney imaginable. Salon.com is not immune.
Journalism is not a profession. It's not a profession in the same way that medicine or the law or teaching are professions. There is no standards tests one must pass, no minimum proficiency standards one has to meet to get a license to practice journalism. Anyone can be a journalist.