Why American Journalism Stinks, and What Journalists Can Do About It
This piece has been edited and co-written by ePuribus Media staff, and I don't know who all they are! Special thanks to Aaron Barlow. Find the original article here .
If the world's second oldest profession is prostitution, I thought as I sat through the infamous "Guckert panel" ("Who is a Journalist?") at the National Press Club on April 8, 2005, then I know what the second oldest profession is.
That's right: journalism.
After someone "did the deed," someone had to report it.
Now, let me be fair: I did find that most of the journalists on the panel were intelligent, articulate, thoughtful, and principled in their desire to defend their profession from the likes and practices of people like Jim Guckert/Jeff Gannon, the "sore thumb" among them.
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