We thank soldiers for their service because they devote themselves to protecting our freedoms, and we should. But we should also thank the media for the same reason -- especially when the stakes have never been higher.So speakaeth Joseph Holt, Professor of ethics at Notre Dame. At he least isn't a professor of Journalism Ethics.
We urge the reader(s) to click on through and experience Holt's professional arrogance and complete lack of self awareness with quotes of Thomas Jefferson and references to famous plays unseen and unread by normal Americans for at least a half century. There's also the obligatory Arthur Miller reference. We all remember nodding off to him in class.
One is reminded of NBC journalist Kevin Sites, who during the Battle of Fallujah recorded a Marine entering a room and shooting a wounded terrorist. Sites broadcast this 'war crime' to the world. Of course the marine Sites slandered went in first, while Sites stood behind him. Like journos in the Holtian mold, Sites tried to compare himself to the Marine.
Judging by Holt's resume, he hasn't done much more than go to and teach school. Ok, five years practicing law. But it doesn't seem like Holt's practiced much journalism. In reading Holt's paean to Pulitzer, Ochs, Murrow and Cronkite, one gets a whiff of the fanboy.
