The Royal ‘We’

“We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute ‘commitment’ for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.”

—Conrad Black¹, F. David Radler² and Peter G. White³, “A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record, the voice of the Eastern Townships,” Nov. 7, 1969.

¹notorious conservative Canadian newspaper owner/publisher, convicted of fraud in 2007 and pardoned in 2018 by Donald Trump; ²his business partner, also convicted of fraud; ³conservative columnist.

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Journalists, as their corrupt corporate overlords see them.

 

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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