GOODY TWO SHOES: Now You Libs In The MSM Know How The Rest Of Us Feel
Slate media critic Jack Shafer laments the passing of the “good old days” when hard-drinking newspapermen used to keep a bottle of hooch in their desks:
Every profession needs what academics call an "occupational mythology" to sustain it, a set of personal and social dramas, arrangements, and devices, as sociologist Everett Hughes put it, "by which men make their work tolerable, or even make it glorious to themselves and others." As hard drugs are to the hard-rocker and tattoos are to the NBA player, so booze is to the journalist - even if he doesn't drink.
The journalist likes to think of himself as living close to the edge, whether he's covering real estate or
Would these be the same edgy types who continually lecture the rest of us in the “news” pages about carbon footprints, plastic water bottles and gun control?
If Shafer wants to hear shouting and cursing, just wait till they take The Stiletto’s incandescent light bulbs away.
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