The Top 40

I'm willin' to bet they get out of the shower to pee.

Honestly I don't care how rural or earthy they are, my problem is their education and breadth of contact is so ridiculously limited. You don't need to know how to bait a hook to write about anything but fishing. But you do need to know people other than your very tight group of identically-minded elites living in a 1 mile radius of each other to write on just about any topic.

The sheer ignorance of journalists is matched only by the absolute certainty they are able to write intelligently and in an informed manner on any topic whatsoever.

Some are more outrageously obvious in their ignorance than others, and some topics bring out this ignorance far more (religion, guns, military, etc). But its pretty much across the board.

Chris, if one has a disdain for how the others live because they don't eat brie and sip latte, those individuals have no chance to write with intelligence about things other than brie.

They have no reference.

Check out the quote on Nixon attributed to Pauline Kael.
Their isolation is remarkable.

Trust reporters? What a joke. Read about the The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect by the late Michael Crichton: http://seekerblog.com/2006/01/31/the-murray-gell-mann-amnesia-effect/

Dan Kurt

Check out the quote on Nixon attributed to Pauline Kael

The apparently deaf-to-irony Ms. Kael, after Nixon carried 48 of 50 states in the 1972 Presidential election, was quoted as saying "I can't believe he won. Nobody I know voted for him."

Newspapers, to me, signify a time long ago when our son was very young and sitting in the breakfast nook eating his Coco Puffs and yapping incessantly and I across from him reading the NewsPress and sipping my morning mud before heading to the office. There was still reason to absorb a newspaper some 30 years ago, but those reasons were fleeting and waning.

The internet, a duplex facility, made one-way newspapers (and other forms of one way information) obsolete for me some 15-20 years ago and I've had no use for them since except maybe the free leftover ones at the store nobody bought which we use for packing materials in boxes and such.

I place newspaper readers today in those packing boxes along with votists, as both are related to each other and along with the newspapers no longer serve any positive purpose other than to further drag everyone else down with their damaging behaviors, to be shipped to the center of the sun someday soon when the rest of us have finally tired of their retarded nonsense.

They can't fall soon enough to suit me.

While its charming to think that bias and incompetence killed newspapers, the real answer is that all their revenue streams moved away. Its not cost efficient to advertise in a newspaper any more and classifies made up a large portion of their money making - and that's largely gone too. Plus, why buy a paper at nearly a buck a day when you can log in and get the info earlier, cheaper, with video and sound? From 10 different sources, including people on the ground who aren't reporters?

Its just old tech.

Good old Fred. He made sure that his Jazz-singing hipster, San Francisco daughter knows how to use a gun. I dubbed her Annie Oakley, and got her cowboy boots so she'd look the part.