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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 07:05 PM
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For those of you MSM hacks who dare to call yourselves journalists.
Edited on Sat Sep-09-06 07:06 PM by BleedingHeartPatriot
Compare your profit driven, ego stoking, access craving, talking points repeating, propaganda catapulting, soul selling actions and contrast with credibility and passion for the truth:



For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
Ernie Pyle




No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow




The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
Eric Sevareid



Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
David Brinkley


Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet.
Chet Huntley




There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite


MKJ

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david_vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 07:08 PM
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1. Being a real journalist is hard work and
Edited on Sat Sep-09-06 07:09 PM by david_vincent
most of the people who major in journalism are lazy, don't know how or what to write, and just want to be in front of a camera.
Sorry if I sound pessimistic, but I've lost all respect for 99 percent of "journalists".

on edit: Great post!
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 07:12 PM
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2. Well said, BHP. K and R.
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ocean girl Donating Member (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 07:24 PM
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3. BRAVO!!
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