It's a religion of getting a piece.

[phanatic]

CBS reporter Lara Logan has recently gone on the record to speak about her brutal sexual assault the hands of an Egyptian mob.

This shit, right here, blows my mind.

Before the assault, Ms. Logan said, she did not know about the levels of harassment and abuse that women in Egypt and other countries regularly experienced. “I would have paid more

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[jordan179]

How is that *possible*? She's a reporter, a journalist, the *Middle East correspondent* for CBS News, and she *didn't know* about that?

Confirming the ignorance and intellectual bankruptcy of the mainstream media. Seriously -- they know nothing about the world, save for the international hotels.

[arthur_sc_king]

Confirms my belief that most "journalists" take up that profession because they're too fucking stupid to get a job that pays better.

IMHO, journalists are like teachers; our society needs and deserves better, and if we paid for it we'd get better, but because the salaries for most are shit, we get the bottom of the barrel too often.

[foreverbeach]

You kind of have that backwards. Those jobs pay so little because anyone can do them. So people who can also do something else, do. Teaching, being a reporter, painting a house, digging a ditch with a shovel, landscaping... shit anyone can do, therefore won't pay shit.

[arthur_sc_king]

Ahhh, but for teaching and journalism, while anyone can do them, not everyone can do them well. And I think those are two careers where we need much better candidates in there.

Teachers with a clue and journalists with a clue can provide the foundation for an educated and aware citizenry, which is the foundation for a successful democracy. But when teachers and journalists are idiots, you end up with a bunch of clueless yahoos, which is perfect for the plutocracy that America has become.

I prefer the former, rather than the latter.

[foreverbeach]

Good teachers and good journalists both get paid a lot more than average though.

[achinhibitor]

Some good teachers and good journalists get paid quite well. But in the average case, people are not willing to pay more to get better. In the case of journalism, people don't pay for it at all (the advertisers do).