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• Thursday, May 3, 2007 08:39 PM

  I think the days

  of the hardboiled journalist, the guy with the cig hanging out of the side of his mouth, typewriter clacking, looked like he slept in his clothes and drank whiskey out of a bottle in his desk drawer was probably what we need.

  I realize this is a movie sterotype but, those have to be better than the empty headed, fluff chasing gossip columnists that pass for real journalists now.

  You see people like Chris Matthews drooling over the manliness of captain codpeice and then, I heard today he was doing stupid manily senarios for the exmayor of NY where he beats up on a gang of hoods at night. Geez! This is our journalists at work.

  Newswriters who aspire to be the next Drudge are the kind you need to pack off to the National Enquierer and not have them think they are in any sense real journalists.

  the reason the journalists are so angry at blogs is that the bloggers are the real journalists. The throwback to the Woodward /Bernstein model of not wanting to travel the cocktail curcuit with the people they are suppose to be speaking truth to but, cut these people's career's throats.

  Maybe it is an offshoot of so long under the authoritarian rule of republicans that journalists got lazy with doing fluff and gossip as they were too awed by the manliness of the gop. Or at least, I am more apt to believe, bored with all the backroom wheeling and dealing with lobbyests and but, outside of that totally a party of people totally boring. Like covering bank executives. yawn.

  Democrats are so much more fun but, alot more work.

  —vwcats Read vwcats's other letters
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