Oh, my sweet baby Jesus. Gather round, everybody – it’s pundit-kicking time.
James Bowman. Remember that name. Savour it. He’s written an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that boggles the mind, entitled Getting It Right: David Halberstam and the media’s ethos of irresponsibility. After reading, sitting open-mouthed and then re-reading his article to write this diary, I feel strangely high on unreality.
He's arguing that journalists are a bad thing. This, bear in mind, is a journalist writing about journalism in the Wall Street Journal.
I've never heard of this guy before, but he's just joined my top ten list of pompous, smug, fatuous, wrong-headed, fascist enablers. He writes about the media, and he's a perfect example of where everything has gone so very badly wrong with the US media.
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