Well, She’s Partly Right
Helen Thomas beclowns herself yet again. She took part in a round-table discussion organized for the 100th anniversary of the National Press Club.
Thomas Accuses Bloggers of ‘Deterioration’ of Journalism in Iraq War
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.
In her attempt to slam bloggers, she does admit two facts I agree with:
- Bloggers don’t have the same standards, ethics, “and so forth,” as journalists - Michelle Malkin (from whom I found this article) and others have demonstrated that over the past several years;
- Reporters have laid down on the job - they have, and not with the administration, as Helen would have us believe.
Thomas Accuses Bloggers of ‘Deterioration’ of Journalism in Iraq War
