Not everyone is thrilled about how new technology has changed the way news is reported. Long-time White House Press Corp member and columnist for Hearst newspapers Helen Thomas is one of those unhappy. She blames bloggers for contributing to the “deterioration†of journalism that led to the Iraq war.  ÂÂ
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“What I really worry about is that I think the bloggers and everyone, everyone with a laptop thinks they’re journalists,†Thomas said. “And, they certainly don’t have our standards. They don’t have our ethics, and so forth. There’s a deterioration,†she continued. “Reporters laid down on the job in the run up to this [the Iraq] war.â€Â
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I am rather proud I don’t share the ethics of Helen Thomas and other hacks like her.
So, in addition to the main cause of the Iraq War being The BushitlerBurtonNeoConJooRethuglicanXtianist Conspiracy (TM), we now have to add bloggers?! Yeesh, it’s getting really hard to keep up.
I wonder if she has ever known love?
Just the love that dare not speak its name, happyfeet…
You know I would almost just want that for her but even there it’s hard to see it. The reason I say almost is cause she’s so unattractive.
Pot.
Kettle.
Black.
Meaning, I think something in her actively tries to repel cause that’s just not even trying, how she looks.
Good God. Pathetic. Nothing more to say.
= Feets. Its the fundemental cloying angst of the beat generation redux. All is doom and gloom,, we’re all serial killers and/or mutant sexual predetors, hell-bent on capturing her “essense”,, and everyone is going to hell for raping Gia, and you dare not lift a finger to defend yourself under any scenario,, because it might offend some far-left Liberl’s sensibilities or stifle the hopes of some simple freedom fighters somewhere to steal your ill-gotten automobile,, while she herself has been leaden down with the life long yoke carried by all Secular Progessives to destroy the evils of Christianity,, and squelch any warm feeling or smile anywhere on the planet. As someone once said, SecProgs could suck the humor out of a trainload of lemons.
Even stranger coming from a woman who has the perfect face for blogging. Or those classic “Bitter beer face!!” commercials. Those were classic.
Which is to say, many bloggers have standards and ethics.
Daniel Schorr has the same disease. Either bitterness has something to do with longevity or they’re just outliers. I think Studs Terkel is still around too. Troubling.
– I think it starts somewhere in childhood for these “Doomists”. Maybe they just can’t cope from the momnet they’re told they’ll die someday. I mean if there really was such a thing as a benevolent all loving G_d, surely he would not allow caring, passionate, all knowing people to pas, now would he. Ergo he can;t possible exist.
– If the universe is expanding then most likely its from the outward pressure of these narcisistic “Me-bot” egos.
Helen needs to go find a nice, comfy wrestling ring to settle in next to.
I think what we need to do, to address Helen’s trouble, is cause a rift in the time-space continuum so that she can shift over to a parallel universe where things really are as she wishes they were.
Of course, the tricky part is causing the rift in the time-space continuum. I don’t think I can do it alone, so all y’all are going to have to join in and say it along with me. One… Two… Three!
“I’d hit it.”
…did it work? Is she still here?
Oh, damn.
McGehee, not only did it not work, but now I have a turtle in my pants where my dick used to be. What’s the opposite of priapism, and can I just sit down to pee or should I go ahead and get in the bathtub?
Dammit, the rift opened the wrong way.
Could you imagine a universe where Helen Thomas was considered the epitome of beauty?
Me neither.
Could you imagine a universe where Helen Thomas was considered the epitome of beauty?
I think there was a Twilight Zone episode about this.
I know she doesn’t carry nearly as much weight with the press as she thinks she does, but the notion of this ridiculous old harpy imagining herself to be the pinnacle of objectivity and insight is just wonderful.
– Using Helen’s name and the words “hit it” in the same post is probably close to causing all the males of every species to jump to a parralell universe,, rift or no rift.
Two words, Ms. Thomas: Eason Jordan.
What’s the opposite of priapism
“Koro” I think. I’ts a hyterical penis shriveling disorder, I’m pretty sure Koro means “head of a turtle”
Sort of like Helen Thomas.
Perhaps the good emperor would like to educate us on her ethics. For instance, is it ethical for a reporter to declare without reservation their political bent? Is it ethical to display that political bias in every question that they ask? I do know that it does not affect ethics in any way to be so unalterably wrong on Israel and the GWOT year after year after year.
The emperor is an embarrassment to the mainstream press and an ongoing incentive to seek other areas for news. I’ll answer the question for the emperor: “Ethics is all reporters and bloggers reflecting my liberal world view.”
That was low, Sarah.
“What I really worry about is that I think the bloggers and everyone, everyone with a laptop thinks they’re journalists,â€Â
Man, what a pompous fraud:
Until the advent of the “college education” as the sine qua non of a successful career, journalists were simply people who “wrote well”. They may have had a college degree, but maybe not.
Ms Thomas’ graduated from Wayne St with “a bachelor’s degree in 1942”. This degree is from a time long before the present day oh-so serious notions of what journalism is were widespread. I think it’s interesting that none of the bios that I could find about her, describe the major or pensum or anything that made up that bachelors degree.
You know, the very things that would qualify her to think she’s a journalist – and any different at all from many bloggers.
Helen Thomas is one of those people who is ugly, not because she was born that way, but because she’s gone through life as a bitter, unpleasant person.
“Reporters laid down on the job in the run up to this [the Iraq] war.â€Â
So much for journalistic standards on language. If she’s right, they LAY down on the job. If they LAID down, they were placing bird feathers (e.g. from ducks) on the floor. Laid is the past tense of to lay, not to lie, and it’s transitive.
Although, to be fair, it’s hard to tell what she said on the audio, and the transcription may have been wrong.
My brother got his degrees in journalism and German. He spent some time working for newspapers, but he kept telling me that his co-workers were all biased and unobjective. He went to work for Phil Gramm and later, Kay Bailey Hutchison, both of whom he considered more objective and centered.
And now he has his feet in the sand, working to keep people like HT safe and free to take a dump on him every time they get a chance. As they say, irony.
The only reason she’s still alive is that she bathes nightly in the blood of babies.
“I think what we need to do, to address Helen’s trouble, is cause a rift in the time-space continuum so that she can shift over to a parallel universe where things really are as she wishes they were.”
Where is Samantha Carter when you need her???
That would explain a lot. In those days, didn’t they give women spinster’s degrees? If she got a bachelor’s, she apparently flunked a saliva test.
“And, they certainly don’t have our standards. They don’t have our ethics, and so forth…’
Thank God for that. Coming from the most block-headed partisan hack in the Washington press corps, I find that risible. I don’t know how I’d live with myself if I employed the “standards” and “ethics” for what passes for “journalism” in the Lamestream Media these days.
“in what passes for…”
damnit.
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she’s a disgusting partisan and an embarrassment to any “professionals” in the Journalism field, if there are any left….
She’s just a poor, sad old woman, never terribly capable, overtaken by technology she doesn’t know how to respond, nor adapt to.
I mean, when was the last time your were agog at a story by Helen Thomas? Yeah, never. She seems to have become respectable in the same way old buildings, old politicians and old whores become respectable: she lasted long enough.
What I really worry about is that Helen Thomas thinks she’s a journalist.
That’s just the smell.
It’s called freedom of speech you cow!