Letters to the Editor
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Discrimination
And you're also a lawyer? That's like four strikes right off the bat. You couldn't possibly have anything Serious to say... And a piece of advice for your next book - don't rely so much on evidence and logic to determine your conclusions.
-- thehallmark
I agree with Hallmark, "serious" is a "Serious " word. And who in their right mind, whether a journalist or a lawyer for that matter would ever rely on "too" much evidence and logic. Why bother, it's much easier to make stuff up.
And well put, being a lawyer does have at least 4 strikes, just like in baseball. Right off the bat. But the 5th strike against lawyers are that they are all in disguise running the country in the form of elected officials and politicians.
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It is funny that the word discrimination has both a good and evil side to its dictionary definition. The evil side refers to making distinctions based on racial, religious, sex, etc, intolerances or bigotry. The good side refers to the ability to make nuanced distinctions and use practical judgment based on facts and evidence. Who knows, maybe that is what forces "serious" journalists to be "balanced", they cannot determine when and how to use discrimination.
Lack of discrimination does things like:
tie together a lunatic/comedianne/sociopath/entertainer and an advocate promoting a position as the same thing,
tie together a politician who lies a nation to war and another who lies about an extra-marital affair,
tie together actions and events that can cause potential personal consequences, with those that can devastate an entire nation.
To bad discrimination has such a bad connotation, journalism sure could use some discrimination.