OT and getting further OT all the time! Re: Off-topic, but interesting (Fiorina fired)

[Jim Arnott]

You might find PBS's Bill Moyers comments to Society of Professional 
Journalists conference on Sept. 11, 2004 germane to this discussion: 
<http://www.tompaine.com/articles/journalism_under_fire.php>

Jim

On Thursday, February 10, 2005, at 03:56 PM, Computer Collector 
Newsletter wrote:

>>>>>> Unfortunately, reporters are NOT "The Media" and most reporters 
>>>>>> don't
> have a lot of influence over what gets reported or how it's presented.
>
> Huh?????  Reporters aren't the media?  What are we, plumbers?  Elevator
> repairment?  I sure thought I was media.  My press pass is wrong?
>
>>>>>> they all exist to make money, which they do by not pissing off 
>>>>>> their
> advertisers, i.e. by selling product.  Granted, in the case of 
> stations like
> CNN, their advertisers are the government and the product they sell is
> complacency, but the theory still holds.

The first lemming to lead his peers off the cliff is a bold and 
decisive leader.