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Sometimes I wish I were a journalist. They get to run around all day chasing people, chasing leads, and then when they catch them they get to say things like:

"I'm working a piece for the Times about.."

Ha! I'm working a piece. I'm working a piece, alright.. it just ain't for the times. These journalists.. they get to poke around and ask naughty questions and because they are le presse, people respond.. People feel compelled to tell the truth. Okay, Clinton aside, people tell the truth.

No one feels compelled to tell me the truth.. and they certainly don't put up with my naughty questions to begin with.

Journalists get to use "work" as an excuse to talk to whomever they want, and then, when it doesn't turn out they just print it up as a social interesting story.. Does anyone actually like these things? Does anyone read this tripe??

It's all grand and dandy when you're reading about something you aren't familiar with.. but the unfortunate part comes when you do know something about what the writer is reporting on.. Then you notice the glaring imperfections in the story. You can pick out the mistakes, the mis-quotes, and you can seeth at the overall point the reporter failed to get. Knowing all this, how can you read anything with a straight face? How can you read about something, learn about something, and believe it's true.. knowing what you know about journalists and their penchant for factless publishing?

People believe what they read because they want to believe what the read. They want to think, to know, that if it is written down then it is as good as gold and they can take that to the bank.

Well, I have to tell you something folks.. You're being hoodwinked. It was not so long ago, in fact, that I read an article on journalistic integrity.. and it said that 75% of all journalists stretch the truth or misreport 50% of the time and that 25% of the others only fact-check 20% of the time and 50% of *those* were really monkeys in humansuits.

Really! I read it. It was published. It was printed on thin glossy paper and put between a front cover with a mug of G.W. and a back cover with a nissan ad.

it must have been true.


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