Journalism wishes to be considered a profession. But journalism lacks specific learning such as is the case with the classic professions of medicine, ministry and law and other learned professions. In addition, journalism lacks an enforceable code of ethics or conduct. There is no licensure requirement to be a journalist; the speech/press clause of the First Amendment would proscribe such a requirement. Also, it is difficult defining just who is a journalist, considering the various roles of reporter, analyst, opinion maker, editor, etc. So when someone says "I am a journalist" perhaps he/she should follow with the code of ethics/conduct he/she abides by. Otherwise, we can all call ourselves journalists.

They don't let you report facts anyways. Tried to in the day, had an Army Col who was experienced in Oil work and still had contacts in the service.

He was telling all about Bush Sr and his son's profiteering with Kuwait. He mentioned his boy skipping outta guard service back in the day too, i shit bricks to see him run for POTUS and get to steal it down the road...

But editors/producers will not let people with factual content like that report.

He was great on his evaluation of desert storm. Said what would happen when and how, and things went just as he described.

By
The
Book.

He was an SAC coordinator for ground strikes in support of troops in his days. Left a Col, would have been a General had he stayed. Was an oil wildcat assessor for companies in the Gulf of Mexico in the 70s, had some interesting comments on Dubya's failed oil wells/tax write-offs.

Oil wells are holes in the ground that make money. Dub didn't know his from a hole in the ground though.

Nobody thought it would be a big deal once we got Clinton in, same way he hopes everyone forgets this whole war thing and jeb gets to run on the McCain ticket in '08.

That was just entry level, but if you couldn't get it on PTV you surer as hell would get blocked by commerical sponsors who had to sell pickups , groceries and homes and their best base customers would returning from such deployments...

Shag from Brookline: Actually, I'm pretty sure the Framers gave freedom of the press to the people, not a business or industry, because they were pretty sure that at some point almost all of us would have to BE journalists, or at least function as if we were.

I don't see that as a bad thing.

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3. Webb wins
   
4. Huh?
   
5. Bunnypants in Bagdad
   
6. Outage
   
7. Filthy Lucre Watch
   
8. Playing the numbers
   
9. My letter to Countdown
   
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