Which profession do you hate most?

[penguindance]

 

[Harbinger]

Another tidbit of truth: When the journalist reports something a person already agrees with, it re-inforces that persons point of view, but also increases the journalist's credibility. Conversely, if an opposing POV is reported, the credibility of the journalist is diminished.

 

[Rooster]

Re: I hate lawyers

The difference between us and them is that we stop sucking when the victim is dead.

Difference between a Lawyer and a sperm? A sperm has somewhere around a million to one chance of becoming human.

 

[medjay]

LOL I think medjay has some pent up angst of his own against slackjawed sales people.

In line at the K-Mart with twenty packs of Ramen noodles. The checkout girl proceeds to scan each pack individually. "Can't you just scan one and then hit x 20?" I ask. She stares at me for a second then says no, she can't do that.

At the hardware store to get a nail set (this is a small metal tool that you use to sink nails flush with the wood without actually hitting the wood with the hammer). The guy says sure and brings me back a set of nails. No, I say. I need a Nail Set, not a set of nails! Then I describe exactly what I need. He says "Oh, yeah!" goes, and comes back with a different set of nails! I get the manager and tell him I need a nail set. He gets me, you guessed it, a set of nails!. Finally, I had to go find the nail set myself.

Yeah, I guess I do have a little angst.

 

[Rooster]

BTW ... I think most politicans ARE Lawyers

 

[penguindance]

 

[penguindance]

 

[medjay]

Where do you live, Mayberry?

Ha! I live in Chicago! With all the construction they do here, you'd think the hardware stores would be on top of things.

 

[Texan]

Another tidbit of truth: When the journalist reports something a person already agrees with, it re-inforces that persons point of view, but also increases the journalist's credibility. Conversely, if an opposing POV is reported, the credibility of the journalist is diminished.

I just wondered why a journalist would be reporting any point of view. I thought a journalist was to report the factual news, not an editorial perspective. POV indicates bias from the very begining. I know that's what much of our news actually is, but that's why so many people dislike it.

Just my POV.

 

[patient1]

As a student journalist, I go to conventions every semester that hold seminars to help improve upon our skills. At the last convention I went to last month, one of the speakers told us that journalism was the third most hated profession in the U.S., beaten out only by lawyers and used care salesmen. So, I've put up a list of professions that I thought people would hate. Give me your answer and post your reasons why you hate these people. I'm just curious to see what the responses are.

I hold people that distort & fabricate the truth for a living in contempt. Most of these professions serve a legitimate purpose, at least sometimes. Unethical salespeople are bad, but they usually only boast.

Lawyers are often worse than unethical salespeople because they will defame a person's character.

Politicians are worse than lawyers because they have more power.

Political consultants are the parasites on the scum of the earth. They have ideas too horrible for politicians to use, sometimes.

You asked for it-

As for journalists, most leave a lot to be desired. I'd generally put them between used car salesmen & lawyers. Some are just lazy or stupid, some are biased, & some discredit people for the sake of sensationalism.

Normally I don't watch tv, but I happened to see a lot of cable coverage of the sniper.

Britt Hume read a teaser about the US Army training the sniper. I found it very offensive. I don't suppose he's above blaming the church or school the sniper went to, either. Maybe we should report who might have given a drunk driver lessons once upon a time, too.




Here's some more for you to think about- Obviously, most of these journalists didn't know what they were talking about, and the practice of journalists interviewing each other makes that painfully obvious. Lawyers call that hear-say.

Pop Quiz for journalists- What does caliber have to do with bullets? Which is bigger- "fifty", "two-twentythree", or "9mm"?
Which is more powerfull?

What is the usual "Net" & "tare" weight on a trailer truck?
About how many gallons of stuff does does a tank trailer haul?

What do the terms" Fourth estate " & "GOP" mean & where do they come from?


I guarantee K.M. knows all of this.

 

[LC Rough Caress]

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[patient1]

You didn't take the quizz. It's an open test, after-all.

 

[LC Rough Caress]

Re: Re: Which profession do you hate most?

Pop Quiz for journalists- What does caliber have to do with bullets? Which is bigger- "fifty", "two-twentythree", or "9mm"?
Which is more powerfull?

What is the usual "Net" & "tare" weight on a trailer truck?
About how many gallons of stuff does does a tank trailer haul?

What do the terms" Fourth estate " & "GOP" mean & where do they come from?


I guarantee K.M. knows all of this.

First off, your average journalist isn't going to know the answer to those questions. A journalist who specalizes in stories dealing with crime would probably no the answer, and the same goes for the questions that follow the first three. However, most journalists don't specalize because it limits their ability to write stories when they need to.

One thing you need to take into consideration is the drastic difference between broadcast journalism and print journalism. Broadcast journalism is instantaneous, it's right here, right now. When the broadcast journalist learns something, he calls in a breaking news story and just spits it out.

Print journalists don't do that. Print journalists can't do that. A print journalist has to research their story, even after they've conducted the invterviews. For a print journalist, information is the key to survival. If you don't know how to find that information and simply throw things together, you're not going to make it in the business.

When people think about journalists and how much they hate them, they generally think about broadcast journalists because those are the ones who are in your face with video cameras and microphones looking for the quick glimpse of something.

The print journalist is the one who is going to truly sit down and get the real story behind all the tv hype. If you want decent news, then you need to read a newspaper or magazine instead of watching that garbage on tv.

And to wrap this up, broadcast or print, journalists aren't here to be your friends. They aren't here to make you happy or to kiss your ass. They're here to make sure you know what the hell is going on in the world. People are going to hate journalists from now until the end of their existence and even after that. But we still make sure the public knows what is going on in the world around them.

To put it another way...the soldier fights to give us freedom. The journalist fights to make sure we keep it.

 

[LC Rough Caress]

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I want to keep this going for awhile, to get a large number of votes on this question.

 

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[hotNnasty]

Lawyers are my most unfavorite people.