"gatt" wrote:
Gee, why would anybody trust a journalist about matters of journalism?

"... If you don't want to work, become a reporter. That awful power, the
public opinion of the nation, was created by a horde of self-complacent
simpletons who failed at ditch digging and shoemaking and fetched up
journalism on their way to the poorhouse. ..." -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens

I guess I could claim to have been a "journalist" too. Even a publisher.
The problem being, as Mark Twain understood (having been a journalist
himself) is that it appears takes no qualifications to become one.

That's rather like trusting an aviator about aviation. But the
difference between me and people who snivel about words like "slammed"
is that I -do- have military, civilian and academic experience in
journalism and I -do- have experience in aviation. So...

I'm afraid I see no real difference between you and those "snivelers".
Sorry.