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Reply #9: Funny how things have turned around. Back in the day, you had a RESPONSIBLITY for being on TV. [View All]

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FormerDittoHead

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Mon Oct-17-11 03:08 PM
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9. Funny how things have turned around. Back in the day, you had a RESPONSIBLITY for being on TV.

I remember, after Watergate, my peers being journalism majors because they call journalism AS A HIGHER CALLING.

They SAW that journalists and people in the media have a responsibility to THE PEOPLE to present information that will help, inform, and reveal THE TRUTH.

I remember it changing too. I remember when the "investigative" journalism turned into "lifestyles of the rich and famous" and then, over the course of a few years, everything you saw on TV was some kind of press release.

Now, of course, it's LIES. It's the EXACT OPPOSITE of the truth.

And this, from a man who used to be a "consumer" reporter...

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