While President Obama took great pains to call on reporters from ethnic and foreign news establishments at Tuesday's press conference, the president didn't call on a single major US newspaper.
As once mighty Grey Ladies across the country are ceasing publication or cutting their print editions entirely to publish only online, the president's decision to not call on any of the country's most respected papers raises the question of whether anyone, outside of print reporters, truly cares about the continued demise of newspapers.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/As_newspaper_revenues_plummet_Obama_slights_0325.html
And didn't he snub you at some recent Gridiron dinner? Y'all hobnob and glad-hand each other into thinking you're part of the power structure? You're not.
What do you think happens when you leave the really big stories like, oh, say, 9-11, to the guys who have to teach themselves how to be journalists and who sometimes, yes, use the wrong words?
The nation was attacked, it was conquered, and it is now being dismembered by the bankers who commissioned 9-11. ("Huh?" Exactly. Now tell me why you are in any manner qualified to analyze modern politics? "But we can't say it was Israelis; Israelis are Jews. And if we say anything bad about Jews, that makes people think that we want to cook them right up and eat them." Exactly. Do you see the value of linguistic warfare now? Lesson learned: We should leave news to intelligence specialists, not journalists. Tears mean nothing to intelligence types.)
All this happened on your watch, during which watch you claimed to be some kind of "fourth estate" or something.
If you are an American journalist, you need to come to grips with the fact that your industry is dead. You will lose your job soon. That will be a good thing. Why? Not only do you do nothing, but you represent yourselves as doing something, which means that the news consumer takes your word for it that all is well in the world.
The American news consumer has had to rely on domestic intelligence analysts and foreign news sources for information.
Ahem:
WE HAVE TO GO OVERSEAS TO GET DECENT AMERICAN NEWS.
Please go out of business as soon as possible. You're just consuming resources.
