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Originally posted by ARTelevision
To my way of thinking, being a champion of the downtrodden while living one's entire life not at all in the midst of the downtrodden is nothing more than patronizing and nothing less then pandering. We're not talking about people who actually do anthing but pontificate. To talk the talk is not the same as walking the walk.
In brief, these folks do things because it makes them feel good about themselves.
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I, too, have a number of friends that are journalists. As far as I know, none of them consider themselves champions of the downtrodden - they consider themselves reporters and tv anchors. And they take the job of reporting pretty damn seriously. Perhaps as seriously as many people take their jobs.
I don't find painting with such a broad brush all that useful in a conversation.
People run the same spectrum of performance in most any job. I'm sure there are people that pontificate, and are hypocrites. Show me a job where there aren't people like that.
And I'm sure you are right, Art. MOST people do things that make them feel good about themselves. Should we do things that make us miserable?
Steering the conversation to why the majority are self identified liberals seems to be the richest question in this thread. Any journalists watching that would care to explain why they got into Journalism???