JPost Editorial is no laughing matter.
This editorial, about John Kerry's Vietnam hallucinations experience, in the Jerusalem Post made me laugh, and it made me angry. I laughed because they get it. I was angry because papers here don't.
Today's papers in the U.S. like to talk about how they aren't influenced by their opinion pages and editorial staff. While I doubt the veracity of the statement, it ticks me off to no ends to see that they are so lame as to report anything that has the (AP) stamp on it and to call it news. It's not news, it's the AP's editorialized version of what they want to be reported.
Journalism is dead, or on a ventilator, in the print media, and each day it becomes less relavant because it has made itself in the image of the irrelevant and disconnected. Should the local paper become an investigative journal, a paper seeking truth and reporting it, whether it is pro or con to the political direction of the editorial staff, they will still be beyond their glory days, but at least they'll die with dignity.
