Now we have J'ISM everywhere...
As a high school student I watched the Senate Watergate Hearings endlessly, sacrificing the greater part of my summer vacation to sit virtually in 'Washington, DC'.
In those days, the immortal question was “What did the President know, and when did he know it?” In those days, lying administrations could be brought to their knees...
But because the Bush administration has effected a change in how 'journalism' is done these days, in liaison with the editors and publishers that sleep in their camp, the MSM has itself evolved out of the objective school into the stenographic school., as was well highlighted by Stephen Colbert in the summer of 2006.
Certainly, to the same degree that the MSM enjoyed discussing what a liar Bill Clinton was, they are, today, adverse to even circumvent the word in regarding the hundreds of deadly or civil-rights oppressing lies offered daily by this misAdministration.
I think the effect on news-gathering and reporting has merited that we rethink the word journalism: I may from time to time refer to these well-paid talking heads as J'ismists, and their profession as J'ism.
Because they tend to spew lies rather than challenge them (as we see in 'Path to 9/11'). And tweak the language of debate...
Truthfully yours,
ZENmud
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