They’re not just partisans and vicious. They’re mediocre partisans, and vicious hacks.
Well, yeah.
4 thoughts on “What We Learned From The JournoList”
It would be bad enough if they were just trying to bury the story by not really covering it, but they were talking about more than that. They were discussing using their positions as journalists to “raise the price” of raising the Wright issue by engaging in smear. That is intimidation, and none of them had the ethical maturity to see that it was wrong. Exactly what do they teach in journalism school?
How to get away with it.
I propose that we start calling them “journolists” instead of “journalists”.
I have another word, not suitable for polite company, to use.
It would be bad enough if they were just trying to bury the story by not really covering it, but they were talking about more than that. They were discussing using their positions as journalists to “raise the price” of raising the Wright issue by engaging in smear. That is intimidation, and none of them had the ethical maturity to see that it was wrong. Exactly what do they teach in journalism school?
How to get away with it.
I propose that we start calling them “journolists” instead of “journalists”.
I have another word, not suitable for polite company, to use.