[Pirate21]

Caught this toon in Pookie 18's "Today's Toons" for 02/16/06:

[Question_Assumptions]

Years ago, in the Wall Street Journal, there was an opinion piece by a British tabloid reporter who talked about all the stories the British tabloids got right and the mainstream media missed until it was obvious. He said something very interesting in that article, which condemned the mainstream media for it's loss of investigative prowess, reduced to feeding on press releases which they barely question anymore. He said that curiosity should be the minimum basic requirement for a reporter and complained that most journalists no longer have any.

[Cinnamon]

Bratty Kid aka David Gregory is the prime example of these table scrap eating bunch of note-taking gutless wonders

[Mo1]

Sitting in armchairs waiting for handouts not the best way to get scoops

Reminds me of a welfare program

[ryan71]

"Under that system there was no reward for initiative and no penalty for sloth."

Not surprised they would default to what they know best...Communism.

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

"RALEIGH — Members of the elite White House press corps this week have acted more like animals that have been kept in captivity for so long that they can’t find news unless it is forced down their open gullets at a daily press briefing."

They're sqwawking was probably due to the realization that they've become lazy, which would mean their newspaper boss was going to yell at them...

[Veto!]

As a teenager, I was fortunate to work for United Press at a Democrat national convention and four years later at the Republican convention. That was (blush) late '50s, early '60s and back then the real newsmen, a rumpled gritty bunch, were bummed out by the new journalists who were more interested in their hairdos and suits than in gathering news.

TV was and remains the problem. The "news" people now just want to look good on camera.