Posted by
Vinceman007 on Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:37:50 PM
Why would ABC flack Brian Ross irresponsibly report that two psychologists were responsible for the waterboarding interrogation technique (even publishing two pictures of the men on their website) when this same network went berserk over the Valerie Plame non-story where she was 'outed' by her own husband ?
Why would ABC bonehead Charles Gibson report on a CIA infiltration of Iran last year and seriously compromise the mission and the lives of the men involved (not to mention the lives of every American)?
Why indeed.
These days journalism is dead as a doornail, and whistle-blowing - even jeopardizing the safety of your own countrymen -a generally- accepted practice. Just as Eddie Murphy's career now revolves around fart jokes instead of good solid funny material, so too have our journalists taken the low road. Ellis Hennican and Les Payne (both Newsday columnists) have ALWAYS been hacks, but now the rest of the country's reporters get to join them in their traitorous stance against everything decent. News reporters (a noble and decent profession of the past) has taken the equivilent of the fart joke and dressed it up as news.
The fact is they will never be Gay Talese or Lillian Ross or Paul Gallico or even Murray Kempton , not in a million years. So they take the low Breslin route: they try to shock, they tittilate, and when all else fails they give up their nation's secrets like the spoiled cowards they are.
America - always the arbiter of good taste - rewards them with low ratings and near -bankruptcy (a fate almost too good for traitors).
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Unrelated to journalism in every sense of the word, Perez Hilton made a jerk of himself by calling the beauty contestant every dirty name in the book on his dopey blog last week.
It reflects badly on Hilton (and his cause) when he is incapable of normal debate without resorting to base insults - or that he can be so intolerant of opinions that differ from his. Flies, honey, get it?
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