When I think about journalism and journalists, I'm quite speachless myself. Sometimes I don't know if I have to be scared or amused, reading the stuff they can write without being ashamed of themselves, or at least feeling mean or ridiculous. And how they like to steal from their neighbouring colleagues!
My cousing is a journalist for one of the major newspapers around here. He's a nerd who basically doesn't know much about anything. He doesn't have his own opinions about anything of some relevance. He just naturally follows the mainstream, trying to change a bit the common opinion, to give the impression he's an individual, not just a branch in a tree. But seriously, he's clueless about many things, even about things he has to write about. His knowledge on most subjects is something you can get from fliers and cheap manuals. Not that he's a bad person, but it was a disappointment to discover, when I was younger, journalists don't really have to be cultured, well-read and intelectual people. Most of theing they talk about are invented or transformed to fit their audience. Most "trends" they create are all about selling, not about what really counts. They are more like publicists than anything else. Of course there are exceptions, but the greatest part of them are conformists who like to book a plane to Maldives whenrever they have time to spare - that's the case of my cousin, too
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Originally Posted by Faile
You should read the letters page in my local paper. It's full of crazy fundamentalist creationists. It scares me incredibly.
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We shall have a page or section to comment stuff like that. It would be great fun!
