24 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  2. There is nothing more valuable than a reporter who reports the facts of who, what, when, where. why, and who exposes corruption and fraud in government, law enforcement, and business.

    There is nothing more useless and despicable than a person arrogantly calling themselves a “journalist” but who is only repeating the lies and false narratives of their paymasters.

    There has to be a better insult than just “learn to code.”

    1. I’ve been calling the corporate media “the Left’s PR Team” for a few years. Works for me.

    2. Imagine printing “I used to be a journalist” on t-shirts and handing them out to homeless people.

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        I’d hit that button a few times if I could find it somewhere on the page, Steve.

        Or, whenever you have a few hours to kill, dress in your worst torn, grease and paint-spattered ‘project’ clothes, make a badly hand-lettered cardboard sign that says. “Former journalist. Please help” and stand at the bottom of a freeway off-ramp.

        Let idiots pay you to get your message across.

        P.S. I had no idea I had an evil twin brother. [wink]

  3. I learned to code in the early 200’s because my mining photography business was failing. It’s not easy, which is why few people are actually able to do it by simply reading manuals.

    Incidentally, journalists are invertebrates.

    1. Considering coal miners have to know how to detect and deal with explosive methane from the coal deposit they’re mining, where to place explosives, how much explosive to use, etc., I would think they would be better candidates to “learn to code” than your average PR hack, who only knows how to follow orders.

      Not coal, but when I went to work in the oil patch of Pennsyltucky the first test they gave us was mathematical.

      1. Thought for a minute you were programming an abacus. Would love to see some mining photos.

  4. I learned to code back in 1965 as part of my training as a field service techie for Honeywell. My job was to maintain this line of mainframe computers.

    Honeywell 200

    My first program was a memory diagnostic.

    The native assembly language was named Easycoder.

    The Easycoder assembler generated an object file as a binary card deck that could be punched to cards or written to magnetic tape instead. The object file began with a bootstrapping routine so that each program could be loaded into memory, from card reader or magnetic tape, using a boot command from the console.

    2. good lawd l just had a flashback.
      l learned to code on a Honeywell 120 in 1970.
      finished the infamous 5 yr ahhhhts and schiensh grade 13 diploma went right back to the technical high school for a special commerical business course ‘code’ for learning cobol. then got a job operating a monster mainframe, promoted and had a degree in computer sciuence 10 yrs part time after that.
      l was the envy of my classmates. one day the work strations were all in use so l went into the computer room in front of them all, unplugged the status display station plugged it back in turning it into a normal work station. ta da!!
      they complained on monday so l said to my boss, well Gordon, you know lm the only operator you got that even knows how to do that. he smiled.

      learn to code indeed. walked away from all of that starting 85 when l started work as an electricians assistant. apparently to old or too slow or too stooopid to earn an appreticeshit so l just sallied on down the line without it.

  5. Joe Biden was right. Coal miners could learn a different occupation. But the average journalist not so much.

  6. Back in the day when we had time share computers at university/college and had to enter code on teletype machines, we would often work 12 students to a room (each writing code at their own teletype terminal).

    The teletype machine was essentially a typewriter with a continuous roll of paper. We didn’t have computer screens.

    One student in frustration because his program wouldn’t run, typed “f*ck, f*ck, f*ck”

    The error message said “You have typed a naughty word and must type in an apology correctly before you can continue”

    It took him half an hour of trying.

    1. You have reminded me of my early days using the computer system at British Aerospace in Yorkshire. We also had teletype machines and one day I was having all sorts of problems so I called in our resident specialist. He went off and made a phone call. When he returned he said that we were having issues because it was snowing over the Pennines.
      Apparently the connection to the computer in Manchester was via a microwave link, which was affected by snow. I gave up trying that day.

  8. I had decided not to post this nitwit opinion column — some sports journalist decrying the steady disappearance from society — in the Readers Tips space, but here it fits:
    https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/01/24/sports-illustrated-demise-layoffs-mike-bianchi-commentary/

    It mourns the loss of sports journalism without mentioning that the journalism had become woke-politicized. Sports Illustrated put a trans-woman on its swimsuit cover last year.

    1. I ran across a Sports Illustrated lament as well. Here it was for women’s sports which are “losing a voice” just as they “are starting to gain traction”. Heh. Didn’t have the courage to post the link.

  9. I can’t help but wonder how many would still be employed if they had all committed to nothing but the diligent discovery and reporting of the facts.

    1. If they were any good they would be blogging and making a fortune. But then they wouldn’t be towing the narrative. That’s the problem with journalists. They’re smart enough to realize that what they are doing is wrong, but they’re not smart enough to do something else.

  10. Urinalists indeed.

    God bless capitalism. Make a “product” nobody wants and you fail. No wonder they’re all unrepentant commies.

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