from commenter Robert M. Jeffers at the eschaton:
Michael Moore on Journalism:
Literally, you can ask any question you want. No one will arrest you. Why weren't the questions asked? Why wasn't it put to this administration? You know, why didn't anybody say, "Whoa, wait a minute, we're not sending our kids off to die." Have a voice.
As Molly Ivins said to the political reporters: it's time to consider what you are doing.
and my answer to every whiny "journalist" who posts on this site, or who simply thinks they are "doing journalism" because they are keeping their job and their "access" to liars like the Bush Administration: screw you.
Michael Moore is right, and you are wrong. You can ask any question you want. You won't be arrested. You won't be tarred and feathered. You may not get invited to any parties in D.C. or New York. But if you went into journalism to get famous, or to be "loved," screw you. We don't need you.
Trial lawyers are sons-of-bitches. That's why they win trials. Surgeons are arrogant bastards. But that's why they save lives. H.L. Mencken may have been a curmodgeon and a misanthrope. But "journalists" today aren't fit to lick his boots.
Stop whining. Start asking questions. If you get thrown in jail, watch the fireworks as the nation explodes in righteous anger. But quit telling us how hard it is.
People died, because you didn't have the guts to ask obvious questions. It's not all the fault of journalism. But you have as much responsibility as the rest of us. If you can't take the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen.
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