3月10日
I Hate Punk Journalist-Bloggers
I was wondering why the news of CDT getting blocked hasn't caused a big stir in the blogsphere, and I found out from China Herald and ESWN -- the obnoxiou, audacious hoax by clowns like Massage Milk.
I am equally disgusted. From the fan comments at Massage Milk, I gather they are not quite as mad, which means these fans probably aren't journalists. I totally commiserate with victims like Reuters (although they are not blameless here), and I just hate people who mess with fellow journalists in such a very unprofessional way. Same reason I cussed Howard French.
My professor taught me one steel rule about this industry -- never interview or be interviewed by fellow journalists (I've tried hard to follow this, but probably still not hard enough). Don't become news yourself. And I have since developed another principle of my own -- respect your fellow journalists although you wanna get at their throats all the time. If you wanna mess with them, do so professionally, not unprofessionally.
Such incidents are also why I never take these quasi-journalist-bloggers very seriously. I don't give a damn what good journalists they are in real life. They are not serious enough with their blogs. And they knowingly make other journalists look stupid.