Matt Taibbi Slams David Gregory: 'I Don't Know How He Can Call Himself A Journalist'

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84. Modern journalists have never faced adversity

It is often said that if we had a draft, we never would have had those two outrageous Bush wars. Instead we spent trillions to hire people mostly from the bottom of the economic ladder to do this for us. Meanwhile Bush said the only thing anybody else needed to do was to go out and spend some money.

Any American under age 50 has never lived with any real adversity, at least nothing that involved a shared sacrifice. And as a consequence these generations are the most narcissistic, self-centered in our country's history.

That isn't news. It is a common observation. What may not be quite as obvious is that most of today's generation of "journalists" have never had to do anything remotely resembling real journalism. In the past, journalists understood their job was to relentlessly push for the truth, even it that meant ruffling feathers, or worse. None of Gregory's cohort has ever done anything of the sort. They are all just empty vests with pretty faces , who can be trusted to never rock the boat. Nobody should expect that to change absent a major period of adversity.