Fuck Karl Zinmeister and his lack of integrity

NEW YORK Karl Zinsmeister, the new chief
domestic adviser to President Bush, while embedded as a reporter with
the 82nd Airborne in Kuwait in 2003, declared that "many of the
journalists observable in this war theater are bursting with knee-jerk
suspicions and antagonisms for the warriors all around them. A
significant number are whiny and appallingly soft." From http://www.editorandpublisher.com/.

Fuck him and the high horse he rode in on. Two more journalists died in Iraq this week, bringing the total killed to 71. Soft? These people ride in Humvees with troops wearing the same body armor, but instead of guns, they carry cameras and micropohones, putting their asses on the line to bring the story home. It's true that they don't have to do that, but they can stop reporting as easily as I can give up writing or performing. It's who they are, it's what they do, and a lot of these guys are friends of mine. We've got a Pelican case in the shop with airline and customs stickers from all over the Middle East where a customer of ours went over to shoot, and he fortunately made it back safely.

But fuck Zinmeister and his "soft" journalists. These guys didn't have to go back and edit their own copy after it was published to cover their asses. They're real journalists, not professional kiss-asses.