We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.
One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.
As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.
Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.
The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
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