Boldly headlined, "Anti-Immigrant Effort Takes Hold in Md.", another stupid lamestream media outlet tries to convince readers that there's some deep-seated "anti-immigrant" sentiment sweeping the country - when they know full well that nothing could be further from the truth. They bemoan the fact that subscription rates are in free-fall, yet fail to address the fundamental reason underlying that fact: why on God's green earth would any rational person pay money to subscribe to a media outlet that they know will simply print lies whenever an opportunity to do so arises?
There was a time when journalism actually meant something. There was a time when that was an honorable profession. Those days are long gone. "Journalists" today aren't in it to report facts; ask any journalism student (or Jonathan Nicholas, over at The Oregonian) why they've chosen the career, and they'll most often reply, as noted plagiarist Nicholas has: "Because I want to make a difference".
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May--Columnist Jonathan Nicholas is suspended without pay for "representing material from the New Yorker Magazine as his own," Hilliard writes in a letter to Oregonian readers. A Nicholas column on May 15 had plagiarized a "Talk of the Town" item from the May 6 New Yorker concerning events in Nicaragua. - Willamette Week, 25 year issue
What Jonathan and his pals fail to recognize is one simple, undeniable truth: wanting to make a difference is absolutely antithical to the basic premise of journalism.
The desire to make a difference means that you lie, or plagiarize, or do whatever else it takes to get your superior perspective or ideology across to the great unwashed masses. And that, my friend, is not journalism; it is nothing more nor anything less than simple propaganda. Don't bemoan your plummeting subscription rates, and don't cast aimlessly about for possible causes.
The cause looks back at you, each time you glance into a mirror.
