Journalisming

The latest non-scandal is in today's Star Tribune: ethics concerns regarding news anchor Cyndy Brucato. To quote the STrib, since I really don't have a handle on this nonsense, "Some candidates had been supported by political groups that were clients of a media relations and communications company Brucato owns with her husband."

Now, that may be an ethical concern if Brucato were a journalist, but she is not. She is a TV news anchor, a face that gets paid to sit in a chair and read the Daily Bummer, a.k.a. what KSTP likes to dish out to people to scare them. I have never met a news anchor who was a journalist, or vice-versa. She's a talking head, and not the good kind.

Seriously, let's not pretend that television news is anything more than entertainment. To believe otherwise is to insult the handful of journalists that still exist.