What, We Worry?

Everyone now hates journalists, who've been missing for years: Back in 'Nam - "General Stilwell tried to take the intimidation a step further. He began by saying that Neil and I had bothered General Harkins and Ambassador Lodge and other VIPs, and we were not to do it again. Period.

And I stood up, my heart beating wildly -- and told him that we were not his corporals or privates, that we worked for The New York Times and UP and AP and Newsweek, not for the Department of Defense."

Those years have become increasingly grim and intellectually dismal and unclear to succeeding generations until, with nothing to attract, they are dropped from memory and disappear into data, living occasionally within songs and in the back-stories of revisited movies, but basically dead to the new, active citizens of today.

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Too many journalists believe it's not their job to challenge authority or report what authority does not like to have reported.

"It's not our role" -- David Gregory, MSNBC, May 28, 2008