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2009-10-27 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2009-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Get a job, ya bum.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2009-10-27 00:25|| 2009-10-27 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Have journalists considered formally switching to prostitution? It's a cleaner, more honorable line of work and they won't have shut their eyes nearly as much to what's going on in front of (or behind) them.

Posted by ed 2009-10-27 00:39|| 2009-10-27 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Not possible - even whores have a little honor and dignity.

And there are some things a whore won't do - unlike Journalists.

Particularly Journalist trained at the Columbia School of Journalism.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-10-27 00:51|| 2009-10-27 00:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Have journalists considered formally switching to prostitution?

Most did that years ago.

Posted by gorb 2009-10-27 01:54|| 2009-10-27 01:54|| Front Page Top

#5 To a one way ticket to Antarctica.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-10-27 03:32|| 2009-10-27 03:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Dear Mr. Downie,

What is rent-seeking?

Sincerely,
Mr. E. Larson

Posted by eLarson 2009-10-27 08:07|| 2009-10-27 08:07|| Front Page Top

#7 college kids who aren't sharp enough to study medicine, law, finance, or engineering into paeans of virtue

Ah, but you stopped the list of majors far too soon! You should have included things like recreation, womyn's studies, and even education on that list.

Ok, maybe education is pushing it...

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-10-27 08:26|| 2009-10-27 08:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Why not nationalize them and make the bulk of them White House Press Secretaries. Cuts out the middle man that way.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-10-27 08:47|| 2009-10-27 08:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Because the BBC isn't biased...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-27 09:55|| 2009-10-27 09:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Were you fooled for one minute that he hadn't already written his story and wasn't just looking for sound bites that would fit his preconceived notions?

In my civilian career, I manage the electric and natural gas contracts for my place of employ. About a month after I started, Enron went bankrupt. I did a little number-crunching and quickly realized that the contract was unfavorable to us, so under the provisions of the agreement, we terminated the contract. A reporter from the Chicago Tribune called me, wanting a tale of anguish and woe about how Enron tanking had utterly ruined us. I replied that their demise had actually saved us a cool $300K. You could hear the disappointment in the reporter's voice.

Posted by Dreadnought 2009-10-27 10:24|| 2009-10-27 10:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Lim (BSEE) = Journalism
GPA->0

Posted by mojo 2009-10-27 11:39|| 2009-10-27 11:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Whynot nationalize them and make the bulk of them White House Press Secretaries.

You mean they aren't already?

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-10-27 13:06|| 2009-10-27 13:06|| Front Page Top

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