Random Thought of the Day - Molly Ivins, Professional Opiner
Terry Trippany on Mar 27 2006 at 7:48 pm | Filed under: Random Thought
Is Molly Ivins getting dumber with age or am I getting smarter?
Molly Ivins, Nationally Syndicated Windbag, wrote the following in her latest column, Suicide by a Thousand Cuts.
Television, radio and newspapers are all cutting staff, while the bloggers of the Internet either do not have the size or the interest to go out and gather news. Bloggers are not news-gatherers, but opinion-mongers. I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter — nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.
I’d like to thank Molly Ivins for sharing her qualified opinion with the world. I am now more convinced than ever that the slide in Newspaper revenues is a direct result of bloggers who haven’t been exposed to the Molly Ivins‘ school of professional opinion making.
Other “Non-Reporters” who are Discussing this Non-Story
- The New Editor - Should Only Reporters be ‘Allowed’ to Write Opinion?
- Daily Pundit - Qualifications for the Quality
- Rolling Barrage - Molly Ivins or Molly’s Folly
- Baseball Crank - POLITICS: The High Priesthood
Bloggers, opinion, Molly Ivins
In answer to your question, I don’t think either one is possible–especially now.