In an article on Politico.com, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was quoted from his blog saying, “I’m sad to report today a death of a good friend to all of us…..Journalism.”
“The once esteemed 4th estate of our nation and the protector of our freedoms and a watchdog of our rights has passed away after a long struggle with a crippling and debilitating disease of acute dishonesty aggravated by advanced laziness and the loss of brain function.”
He couldn’t be further from the truth! Journalism is not dead at all!
It’s just becoming harder to define what journalism is in a time where “everyone is a journalist.”
So when I read the Huckabee quote at the end of the Politico article, I realized he was confusing bloggers with journalists:
“Journalism had grown increasingly dependent on spin-doctor spoon feeding and the circular and insular quoting of other journalists instead of attempting to locate and quote actual first person sources.”
That sounds more like inexperienced bloggers than professional journalists–they aren’t idiots like he says they are.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, there are many great bloggers out there, who fact-check and write coherently. And then there are the inexperienced bloggers like me, who did exactly what he said is wrong with journalism in THIS blog post…but I’ll get this blogging thing down soon enough…
Here’s the original article from politico…he’s a jackass
Mike Huckabee: Journalism is dead
