Helen Thomas on journalism

“What I really worry about is that I think the bloggers and everyone, everyone with a laptop thinks they’re journalists,” Thomas said. “And, they certainly don’t have our standards. They don’t have our ethics, and so forth. There’s a deterioration,” she continued. “Reporters laid down on the job in the run up to this [the Iraq] war.”

Ms. Thomas appears to be saying two things at once:

• To be a journalist you have to have these high standards
• Reporters have not been adhering to these high standards

I dare ya to find eight good things about each candidate in today's professional news outlets. Dare ya. (And, no, "but there is nothing good that could be said about Hillary" is not an excuse. All three.)

This, by the way, is just an opinion blog - I don't pretend to be a journalist. This is just one voice that isn't getting heard anywhere else, so I took it online (where it isn't getting heard here, either, but oh well). My demographic is underrepresented in both the blogosphere and the professional news media. To them, we simply don't exist.