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... here in the fact-free dreamland created by corporate mass media, an actual journalist is as rare as a dodo egg on Mauritius. "Some people say..." that the real ones are blacklisted, exiled, working online or writing novels and premature memoirs.
The frauds are named Blitzer, Stossel, Zahn, Roberts, Russert and the rest of the feather-headed "on-air talent" trying to pass themselves off as driven, hard-nosed reporters digging for the inside story and slaves to the facts. On the real side, they wouldn't know how to cover a story that demanded subtlety and context any more than I'd know how to tune up a Ferrari.
So when they make shit up and cover themselves by doing this phony "some people think..." acknowledgment of a supposedly popular opinion that may not even exist, they're just defaulting to their inherent laziness, lack of journalistic skills, innate cluelessness and absence of respect for their interviewee, their audience and their profession.
If politicians don't smack them around every single time they get a question that begins with "Some say that...," they'll just keep doing it.
The pols should take a lesson from the way Michael Moore handled Woofie when the latter tried a little character assassination because he couldn't rebut the basic thesis or the facts that made "Sicko" so hard to watch. And everybody watching knew that Blitzer had just been exposed as the small-minded little pissant and monumental fraud that he is.
"Some people say..." Blitzer is still seeing his proctologist to repair all the damage incurred in his ceremonial reaming.
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