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Hag Thomas: incompetent and corrupt journalism the fault of bloggers

Maybe, but I, for one, will not consider my hobby as a blogger to be a success until someone in the MSM accuses me of causing or exacerbating global “warming”!  From Michelle Malkin:

The deterioration of journalism–from Janet Cooke to Stephen Glass to Scott Thomas Beauchamp to Staged News Galore to Rathergate to Reuters-gate to More Fake News Galore–isn’t the fault of individual MSM reporters, editors, or shoddy journalism schools.

Whose fault is it? The “dean of journalism” Helen Thomas blames bloggers. Damned bloggers!

Via the Business and Media Institute:

“What I really worry about is that I think the bloggers and everyone, everyone with a laptop thinks they’re journalists,” Thomas said. “And, they certainly don’t have our standards. (She’s damn right about that, and I am quite proud of that! – Ed.)  They don’t have our ethics, and so forth. There’s a deterioration,” she continued. “Reporters laid down on the job in the run up to this [the Iraq] war.”

Thomas made those remarks in a January 4 round-table discussion that followed the premiere of a documentary about the National Press Club 100th anniversary, “The National Press Club at 100: A Century of Headlines.” The documentary chronicled how the National Press Club has changed over the years as forms of media have changed – from newspapers to radio, TV, magazines and now bloggers. The most recent changes were underscored by Matt Drudge’s June 1998 National Press Club luncheon address.

“I think they did a lousy job and we’re making for it now because the questions that should have been asked were not asked and because of 9/11 and the fear of being called unpatriotic, un-American and so forth. We let the country down,” Thomas added.

So, not only is their incompetence our fault. Their cowardice is our fault, too! 

I knew Helen Thomas was crazier than a Kos kid on a hunting trip with Cheney, but I had no idea she was foolish enough to keep running with the “journalists have ethics” schtick!  My guess is that if you hooked Helen the Hutt up to a lie detector and asked her if her and her kind are ethical and moral and objective, she’d say “Yes” and pass with flying colors.  After all, if you lie often enough, you eventually believe your own bovine feces.

January 7, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | media bias, moonbats