The second-easiest job in Washington (next to a href="http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-todd-collins-fetish.html"this guy's/a) is being a White House correspondent. You show up at press conferences, and ask questions like "Mr. President, are you still smoking?" and "Is the government doing enough about steroid use in baseball?"br /br /You write down the answers, which are then printed in a newspaper. br /br /All this makes you are a high-status journalist, which means you get paid six figures to do a job a chimp could be trained to perform.br /br /So naturally when somebody does some actual reporting it a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009062303262.html?hpid=opinionsbox1"frightens and confuses you/a.br /br /And because years of being at the top of your profession have rendered you incapable of doing any actual reporting yourself, you get a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/media-playground-obama-ca_b_219863.html"all your facts wrong/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-7042541494638846587?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div
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