'Why we need the press'

[Oeditpus Rex]

Perhaps surprisingly in this day of write-it-yourself Web sites, there dwell in America some 125,000 human beings known as "general news journalists."

Hardly anyone likes them. The bloggers call them "mainstream media." Liberals call them "corporate media." Conservatives call them "liberal media." Everyone else just dismisses them as "THE MEDIA."

Truth is, it's easy to bash journalists. Hollywood paints them as a yammering, amoral horde. That's entertaining, but wrong. The boring reality is that most professional journalists actually have ethics. They're good people. They try to dig out facts and stick to them. They hope to keep their corner of the world a little more honest. We watch or read or listen to their work because we need news - especially bad news - to properly run our countries and our lives.

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060306/EDIT/603060301/1003

[Atman]

1. One word...

Bullshit.

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. A well-reasoned response (n.t)

[acmejack]

3. Well, that settles that!