They have demeaned their profession to where its name serves as an all-purpose catchword of derision. New faces might leave the government superficially refreshed, but the media will never recover. As a profession, journalism is permanently and irrevocably dishonored. Its disgrace will remain abysmal and eternal. The American people distrust journalists, and now rate them further down on their shit list than used car salesmen and the current crop of civil rights leaders.
Journalism is a profession that desperately needs to be on truth support.
It has over-advertised its competence. It says much, that with an army of professional newsmen present, the definitive film of the John F. Kennedy assassination was taken with an 8mm camera by Abraham Zapruder, a guy that makes women's dresses. It proclaims journalism to be as un-alert as it is inexact. TV commentators are overestimated - particularly by each other. With the exception of anchormen, those sartorially splendid hamsters that the Networks have made their designated choke points in the flow of information, most newspersons are not as lavishly paid as they would like it to be believed.