Why God’s Not Interested in Journalism:
“I might be a media critic, but I feel like the homesteader with the feverish child moaning in the buckboard who gallops into town and begs old Doc Anderson to for God’s sake do whatever he can. I know, I know—nine times out of ten the next line in the movie is a forlorn ‘I’m sorry, Ben, God took her.’ But I don’t think God’s interested in journalism. (That might be the silver lining.) If journalists disappear from earth we surely won’t find them in heaven, where all the news is good and every politician is honest.”
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I don't think that it's a matter of God being interested in journalism; it's a matter of journalists being interested in God. If there were no crime anywhere on earth (or in heaven), would there not still be stories to tell? People to interview? Lives to touch? Journalists would just have to change their slant a little, give it some celestial flair.
ReplyDeleteTed - It isn't that God isn't interested in journalism, its that journalists are not interested in God. 'Smart' people do not need to 'lean' on a religion, right? Too bad you can't teach the value of wisdom to J students. Might serve us all for the better down the road.
ReplyDeleteEnjoying my daily "Word."
Thanks,
Tom
With the economy tanking, you're lucky to have a career as solid as journalism, especially at the most basic level.
ReplyDeleteThat must mean they’re all going to that other place, where they will report on plots to turn the heat down or to smuggle pork ribs in for the occasional barbecue.
ReplyDeleteJS
My goodness, aren't we getting a little cynical here? Whatever happened to "constructive criticism"? Are we becoming too sophisticated for any sort of plodding analysis?
ReplyDeleteOh, well, I know that the times have passed me by . . . . Harry