Letters to the Editor
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Journalists are the old skool
Frankly I don't give a toss (sorry for my Australiana) what level of delusion national journalists suffer. At least Jayson Blair had the integrity to admit he made it all up. What about the rest of these Bush stenographers and half arsed opinionists that claim to be journalists. They are only fooling themselves if they consider themselves anything more than peddlers of propaganda.
Mainstream (or national) news media has the integrity of the an Enron balance sheet so I treat them as they deserve. Good for entertainment in short burst but not much else. EG When I'm waiting at the hairdresser or Doctor I could watch CNN instead of reading a 3 year old issue of 'O.K. ' magazine. They could replace the National Inquirer with Time and TV Week with NYT. The same level of titillation and lack of truth in all.
I look forward to explaining to my yet to be conceived child that journalists are what we had before blogs. Just like horse and carts are what we had before cars made them obsolete.