tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800203224024653867.post1430676745940391536..comments2023-12-26T16:48:34.886-05:00Comments on Dispassionate Liberal: Flip This, RussertMark W Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13535890174971048423noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800203224024653867.post-49244218783504395112007-11-20T02:10:00.000-05:002007-11-20T02:10:00.000-05:00Any member of the Versailles Press is no longer a ...Any member of the Versailles Press is no longer a real "journalist." Once they get a taste of that high six-figure income, their loyalty is to their portfolio. Those folks you mentioned are media figures, not part of what you and I would consider the "press" at all. Their intelligence is irrelevant when comparing them to other fields of employment. <BR/><BR/>Better to compare their smarts as somewhere on the continuum between Ben Stein and Britany Spears.Mark W Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535890174971048423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800203224024653867.post-3782577953962712752007-11-20T00:08:00.000-05:002007-11-20T00:08:00.000-05:00So the spectrum might go from raw intelligence (sc...So the spectrum might go from raw intelligence (scientists, engineers and mathematicians) to social intelligence (journalists, psychologists and, er, lawyers) to creatives (artists, writers and applied artists).<BR/><BR/>Where do you think Russert and Mathews and Williams and Kouric and Lauer and Broder and Brooks and Kristol and Hume (they're all considered "mainstream") fall on the "smarts" spectrum?shephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10203162404937954792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800203224024653867.post-68452533057714601812007-11-19T14:51:00.000-05:002007-11-19T14:51:00.000-05:00Two of the smartest, most hard-working people I we...Two of the smartest, most hard-working people I went to school with were journalism majors, and both did very well for themselves indeed. But O.U. is home of the Scripts-Howard college of journalism and they have a Pulitzer Prize winning daily paper put out by the students there.<BR/><BR/>Now the guys who were Radio/TV majors who wanted to be DJ's -- kinda goofy, but the R-TV engineers were top notch. The worst were the philosophy majors (full of themselves) and the folks who took up psychology (were usually nuts). Most worthless degree was interior/fashion design -- what abunch of idiots.Mark W Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535890174971048423noreply@blogger.com