tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1623699882018686488.post7530254618972442140..comments2023-10-24T07:33:32.257-07:00Comments on Home of the Snapping Turtle: Why I Didn't Become A JournalistAlpha Zahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09940520964761065276noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1623699882018686488.post-4808749347452977702011-07-04T13:33:41.687-07:002011-07-04T13:33:41.687-07:00Bah I say, baaahhh.
Most journalists are a bunch ...Bah I say, baaahhh.<br /><br />Most journalists are a bunch of elitist fucks. I hate them. They pretend to be so nice and sweet and good etc. but they're a bunch of assholes in the end that treat everyone like shit because they don't live in DHA, they didn't go to an expensive school, they didn't study in an American university, their father isn't so and so, their uncle isn't besties with the president, etc.<br /><br />And most newspapers do tend to be assholes. The News for example. Dawn's shoddy article on Pakistan's first Pride being titled as a homosexual party, as if it was some kind of porny sex party. ET is declining in the excellent quality it once had and moving towards yellow journalism.<br /><br />But. BUT. There are still lots of genuinely good journalists out there. Nice, kind-hearted people that truly do care about the country. As for your tales of corruption etc. I think you're wrong there. I used to think the same as well, but now that I'm in some contact with journalists, I realize that it isn't a conspiracy theory, its the reality.<br /><br />I wish you'd have been a journalist. I'd work in whichever newspaper you work in and we could sit and mock people and check out hot chicks and drool over pics of Katrina. :DGhausiahttp://grsalam.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1623699882018686488.post-58810242269343340432010-07-31T15:52:08.949-07:002010-07-31T15:52:08.949-07:00@ Alec: Haha, thanks. I think that you are pretty ...@ Alec: Haha, thanks. I think that you are pretty much Alec Lindsay, whoever you choose that person to be.Alpha Zahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09940520964761065276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1623699882018686488.post-82199694355797540212010-07-31T15:07:25.267-07:002010-07-31T15:07:25.267-07:00That makes me a girl! That's probably right. D...That makes me a girl! That's probably right. Don't tell anyone, especially yourself, but I think you're quite good. Love, Alec xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1623699882018686488.post-66381473363332879882010-07-31T00:50:43.640-07:002010-07-31T00:50:43.640-07:00@ Alec: Thanks for the comment and the correction....@ Alec: Thanks for the comment and the correction. I can see how bankers can aggravate one in the morning if they have an outstanding loan of some sort. <br /><br />If I did become a journalist, I'd eventually become like them; which is the point I'm trying to make. You are the average of the 5 people you hang out with the most. <br /><br />What I do here is therapy. Blissful, incoherent self therapy.Alpha Zahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09940520964761065276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1623699882018686488.post-55083418739603430142010-07-30T11:17:39.726-07:002010-07-30T11:17:39.726-07:00'Self-important, overly clever, under talented...'Self-important, overly clever, under talented individuals that seemed to be put on this earth to aggravate my early morning happiness', seems to me to describe bankers ;)! Oh, and if I'm to be your editor in your forthcoming career as a journalist it's 'who' not 'that'! Look, bright boy, you seem to know what's wrong with journalists and journalism (although, of course, you being you, you exaggerate for effect), so your whole thesis becomes a pile of horse shit because obviously you wouldn't have been like the practioners you describe but would have been brave and relentless in the pursuit of truth. I can visualise you now, the light of righteous indignation burning in your eyes, the sword of justice, and the pen of truth in your hands, laying waste to the corrupt politicians, the incompetent generals, the venal officials, and the explotaitive capitalists. Can't you see it Murtaza? It's you. You do it here, why not do it to a wider world audience? Love, Alec xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com