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Chicago Tribune Reporters Don't Want Readers' Pre-Approval
theodp writes "Irked by the Marketing department's solicitation of subscribers' opinions on stories before they were published, 55 reporters and editors at the Chicago Tribune signed an e-mail demanding the practice be stopped. 'It is a fundamental principle of journalism that we do not give people outside the newspaper the option of deciding whether or not we should publish a story, whether they be advertisers, politicians or just regular readers,' the e-mail read."
Journalism seems to be one of the last refuges of the arrogant 'I know more than you do' know nothings since the decline of the British Empire and their 'Nobility' which was also full of the clueless but supremely self assured types. Journalists go to school for 'journalism' and are otherwise clueless about the world they live in or the world they report on. But that does not deter them from their own sense of superiority and desire to tell the rest of the world what to think and how to vote etc etc. To see these clowns up in arms over anyone being able to suggest or critic their mandate from Heaven to tell it like 'they' see it is most amusing especially as we see them bothering to rearrange their deck chairs as the end of their ship against the rocks is about to happen. It's most amusing.
Enjoy your Karma, after all you earned it. Feel your Karma Joe, feel it burn.