Ho-Hum
Rhetorica gets it right when considering the Armstrong Williams flap:
Yup. I've worked alongside TV media for 20 years now. I know we're at the same fires and hockey games. I know we're a bridge between the events and the people who weren't there, but are curious about them. But I never got the impression that the people in the nice ties who were talking into the cameras were doing the same job I was. Or were even in the same profession. After all, Hunter S. Thompson is a "journalist," too.
I'm having a difficult time working up much ire toward Armstrong Williams. Here's why: I don't consider him a journalist. He plays one on TV and in his former column. But he is something else.
Yup. I've worked alongside TV media for 20 years now. I know we're at the same fires and hockey games. I know we're a bridge between the events and the people who weren't there, but are curious about them. But I never got the impression that the people in the nice ties who were talking into the cameras were doing the same job I was. Or were even in the same profession. After all, Hunter S. Thompson is a "journalist," too.
