--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If they'd just do their damned *job*, things > > wouldn't be quite so bleak right now. > > It would appear that many now see their *job* as sucking up to > their corporate bosses and the WH in order to keep their jobs and > their "access" -- such as it is :-)
Well put. "In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralising. Somebody--was it Burke?--called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time, no doubt. But at the present moment it really is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism." --Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man" Those were the days, my friend... It's great to see the media standing up on their hind legs and taking no guff at White House press briefings for a change, and they're just *so* pleased with themselves. But you're a day late and a dollar short, guys. It would never have gotten to this point if you'd acted like real journalists for the past decade or so. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
