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Originally Posted by shakran
But see that's your whole problem. You've made up your mind to be mad at journalists no matter what they do. The air france thing, they were doing their jobs. A journalist isn't supposed to hear "no comment" and then immediately stop asking questions. Frankly what they did at the air france story is what they should have been doing every single day in the white house press room.
And if a journalist leaves his comfortable home to spend 2 weeks on the street to try and see what it's like to be homeless, whether you agree that it's effective or not, it is anything BUT lazy.
You seem to have a pretty serious dislike for all journalists, and it seems to be tainting your reactions to ANY stories about them.
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You are absolutely right. I am going to have to look at my perceptions about the journalism industry and understand where the bitterness comes from.
Maybe it has something to do with a reporter killing my father when I was 5.
Just kidding. Seriously though, I think you are on to something. I see things in this world as a little bit more complex than the 30 second sound-bite or the "Expose" peice that most forms of media give.
I also LOVE non-fiction books, that give me hours of in-depth story telling. I should change my attitude a bit, I know. Maybe knowing that I look at things that way will tell me to give these people another chance, instead of writing them off en masse as clumsy, fake and lazy.