"...Journalism, as a profession, does not exist.
We know generally or specifically what qualifies one to be a cardiologist or an astrophysicist or even, heaven help us, a lawyer.
But a journalist?
What possible credential makes one a journalist?
A degree from the Columbia School of Journalism?
Well, that proves your parents can afford a hundred grand. Either that or you're heavily in debt. All you have to do is start typing.
...I know — the rap is that a real journalist is someone who fairly and impartially reports the truth, the proverbial chips falling how they may. (Stop laughing.)
How does that fit with what just went down with BuzzFeed?
Perhaps a better definition would be: a gullible idiot with an ax to grind. You don't have to go to J-school for that.
All you have to be — like BuzzFeed's Jason Leopold — is another self-promoter willing (or, more exactly, eager) to believe it when someone tells you Donald Trump was dumb enough to tell Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about something that was perfectly legal in the first place — to wit, building a hotel in Moscow.
Of course, BuzzFeed, as juvenile as they are, is not alone at this..."
Read on.
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