Posted 12:05 PM by Gene

The dreadful murder of that Timesman somehow gets America's first jernalistic power couple to thinking as it must always, of itself. "We in the media are often criticized for wielding too much unchecked power. 'Who elected you?' is a common, but misguided, complaint because you, the readers, elect us. Every day." No we don't. We don't hire you, we don't tell you what to report (most certainly not), and most of us don't pay for your salaries anymore -- they're provided by your sugar daddies in the advertising loony bin, who seem as comfortably in love with themselves as you. Nobody elected you, and you act it. This seems an insuperable part of the media shtick, even now with bloggers, who've walled themselves off into haves and have-nots. We don't like that either.

(Via Romy)