Media Elites vs Regular Joes

Always good to see the media elites lash out when regular joes (no pun intended) try to do reporting.

"How dare he! We went to journalism school!"

Joe the Plumber, whose pronouncements during the campaign established him as the most influential political pundit since Bart Simpson, plans to save journalism - from itself. London's Guardian says Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher is "dropping his unlicensed plunger and picking up a reporter's notebook" to cover the latest eruption of violence in the Gaza strip for conservative Web site pjtv.com. Joe the War Correspondent, who will immerse himself in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for 10 whole days, promises to report "without a politically correct filter." Joe, who became a mascot for John McCain's campaign when he challenged Barack Obama's economic plan, tells NBC News he will try to explain Israel's reason for the offensive against Hamas. "I get to go over there and let their 'average Joes' share their story, what they think, how they feel, especially with world opinion," he said. "It's very tragic," he said of the rising death toll. "But at the same time what are the Israeli people supposed to do?"

Thanks for the reporting Tirdad Derakhshani.

Paragraphs and carriage returns.

We could have used two or three of them.

He must have missed that day in J-school.

Media and Blogging Posted by AlexC at January 8, 2009 4:55 PM