{"id":56189,"date":"2025-02-22T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=56189"},"modified":"2025-02-21T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T12:37:33","slug":"qotd-modern-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/02\/22\/qotd-modern-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Modern journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>We Americans are truly blessed by having a mainstream media full of brilliant renaissance men, women, and gender non-specific entities who are masters of so many varied and intermittently useful skills and who are eager to share their knowledge with us benighted souls. The pandemic has revealed that every urban Twitter blue check scribbler, MSNBCNN panelist, <em>NYT<\/em>\/<em>WaPo<\/em> doofus, and barely legal &#8220;senior editor&#8221; of a website you never heard of, is a Nobel Prize-winning epidemiologist, a master logistician, and a diversity consultant to boot.<\/p>\n<p>They may all be lousy journalists, but damn it, they are also lousy at other jobs that they didn&#8217;t even pretend to train to do.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s awesome to see people with zero life experience in any relevant field weighing in as if we shouldn&#8217;t just laugh in their pimply faces. Here&#8217;s the typical resume of one of these hacks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Went to high school, and never went to parties<\/li>\n<li>Went to college, majored in journalism, and never went to parties<\/li>\n<li>Went to journalism grad school, and never went to parties<\/li>\n<li>Works in the media, and goes to Manhattan\/Georgetown cocktail parties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This apparently qualifies them to explain to people like us who have actually done something in our lives how stuff is supposed to work.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Schlicter, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2020\/04\/02\/our-super-smart-elite-shines-during-this-pandemic-n2566111\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Our Super Smart Elite Shines During This Pandemic!&#8221;, <em>TownHall.com<\/em><\/a>, 2020-04-02.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Americans are truly blessed by having a mainstream media full of brilliant renaissance men, women, and gender non-specific entities who are masters of so many varied and intermittently useful skills and who are eager to share their knowledge with us benighted souls. The pandemic has revealed that every urban Twitter blue check scribbler, MSNBCNN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,84,28,53,41,13],"tags":[1213,213,539,593,101],"class_list":["post-56189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-government","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-kakistocracy","tag-newspapers","tag-pandemic","tag-socialmedia","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eCh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94274,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56189\/revisions\/94274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}