Still steaming from the NYT editorial about Priscilla Owens, I recalled Samuel Johnson's insightful comment about journalists:

To write news in its perfection . . .require[s] neither genius nor knowledge, neither industry nor sprightliness; but contempt of shame and indifference to truth are absolutely necessary."

It made me feel a bit better that journalists have been this bad since at least 1758.

- posted by Tom Sawyer @ 1:13 PM