We don’t think it’s even been a week since we did a post on journalists congratulating themselves. They seem to be needier than Hollywood actors when it comes to adoration, and if they need to come up with an award like the Dan Rather Medal for News and Guts to fill the void where their Pulitzer should be, then so be it. Speaking of Pulitzers, the great thing is you don’t have to give it back when the “story” you were chasing falls apart or your knowledge of history is a bit off.
Julie Wolfe is news director at WHAS 11 News is Louisville, Kentucky, and she wrote an open letter to all 2020 journalists at this, the end of the toughest year of their careers. We’d have thought that President Trump’s foreign policy would have led to fewer war correspondents embedding themselves with the troops, but here we are.
An open letter to journalists at the end of the toughest year of our careers: pic.twitter.com/AZ9FeIsxwz
— JulieWolfe (@JulieWolfe) December 22, 2020
If that got cut off, it ends, “2020 proved that. Thank you. And Merry Christmas, you’ve earned it.”
Another wonderful note this year. Merry Christmas, my friends. What you do matters. https://t.co/BUHyNdXeXs
— Kathryn Havrilla (@KathrynHavrilla) December 22, 2020
Good Lord, what a bunch of weak-ass losers our media are.
Everyone had a hard year.
Everyone wore masks & washed their hands
Everyone battled isolation & fear.What the hell makes you think that your lives were somehow harder than the rest of us?
1/x https://t.co/pHRL9lso5p— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 23, 2020
None of you worked as hard or as in much danger as doctors, nurses & first responders.
2/x pic.twitter.com/jpDrUEMw9B
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 23, 2020
None of you worked as hard or as in much danger as our soldiers, sailors, airmen & Marines
3/x pic.twitter.com/bJziLJ3YHN
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 23, 2020
How many of you lost your businesses, your life's work due to lockdowns and overreaching government tyranny
4/x pic.twitter.com/VCLDmPSSzO
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 23, 2020
Some people said mean things to you, so what. Grow the fuck up. You've been just as nasty or worse to the fly-over Americans you show your disgust for daily.
5/x pic.twitter.com/U1thN5YnKh
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 23, 2020
I'll never understand why journalists think that their jobs are more important, better or more deserving of praise. They abused their roles and sacrificed their respectability in the name of being partisan advocates.
6/x
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 23, 2020
"Journalists" then demand we give them unearned sympathy and admiration for their heroic roles as partisan hacks while wearing the skin-suit of a reporter.
Nope, you have to earn my respect (or sympathy) and I've got none left to spare for the media.
7/7
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 23, 2020
Bunch of narcissistic pussies
— corisoohack (@corisoohack) December 23, 2020
I’d assert that it’s due to the peculiar nature of liberalism- the curious mixture of arrogance, self-loathing and perceived grievances. https://t.co/9jeUSyW0Co
— TresHall (@gingertreshall on Parler) (@gingertreshall) December 23, 2020
They suffer for us
— Dr Bruce from Svealand ???? ?????? (@svealand2) December 23, 2020
They are so embarrassing.
— Kelsey ? (@coineanach) December 23, 2020
But they mastered Zoom! Well, one of them did anyway.
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) December 23, 2020
Jeffrey Toobin on hearing her say, 'Mastered zoom'. pic.twitter.com/DRu98Mcair
— Poundsand (@Poundsand2) December 23, 2020
— BloodSpite (@BloodSpite) December 23, 2020
Journalists are simply the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. Nothing more.
— TaraW (@TaraW500) December 23, 2020
They didn't work as hard as parents that waited in food lines for hours so that they could feed their families.
— Gianna C. Molla (@CarrieREICH2) December 23, 2020
But they asked tough, soul searching questions!
Which I somehow missed.
— Howard Wall ?? (@HJWallEcon) December 23, 2020
No, we don’t hate them for doing their job, we hate them for doing it badly.
— Julie melinda (@Juliemelinda3) December 23, 2020
Journalists are some of the most self-important worker groups I know. Talk to them about their profession, and they speak as if they are the silent warriors the whole nation depends on. It’s kinda gross.
— Will A (@WillAisNumber24) December 23, 2020
Is this a joke?? Omg. You are all worse than I thought.
— Ro (@OmaMona) December 23, 2020
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You will need physical therapy to treat your dislocated shoulder from patting yourself on the back.
— Bill C'Mon Man McBride (@gilescorey) December 23, 2020
What a load of shit.
“Journalists” are the most non essential, obsolete “profession” in the country. You’re all nothing but activists.— President Elect Jimni (@jimni27) December 23, 2020
The real heroes
— Alex Joffe (@DrAlexJoffe) December 23, 2020
Wow I never thought of it that way. Journalists truly are the real heroes
— Regular Joe (@jolawsci) December 22, 2020
I just threw up a little pic.twitter.com/5AN9vmhN3v
— @phreatomagnetic (@phreatomagnetic) December 22, 2020
The lack of self-awareness in this post is mind-numbing.
— Steven Kennedy (@tractorshark) December 22, 2020
A post worthy of @TitaniaMcGrath
Oh. You were serious?
Oh, my.
— Joseph Self (@Joeyself) December 22, 2020
Patting yourself on the back for “mastering zoom” is like feeling accomplishment for successfully velcroing your shoes.
— Adam Trahan (@AdamTrahan) December 23, 2020
Kindergarteners did that too
— Rebekah (@winkgnz) December 23, 2020
This ratio is glorious to see
— Doug Kelly (@Doug_Kelly55) December 23, 2020
You really have it rough compared to all those people who lost jobs. You had to work from home while they just had to sit around and enjoy their funemployment.
Thank goodness you made it ok.
— Dr. Zombie John Gotti ? ? ? ? (@ZombieJohnGotti) December 23, 2020
Journalists haven’t done one thing that matters to anyone except other journalists. The only exception is the corrupt politicians for whom you cover the truth…with a pillow until it stops breathing
You are contemptible.
— Dr. Steph (@steph93065) December 22, 2020
Strong enough to ask tough, soul-searching questions…
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
— High ⚡ Voltage UNMASKED (@HiVoltage311) December 22, 2020
I present to you the Brian Stelter award for bravery in journalism pic.twitter.com/yIaWo2o4Pc
— Dr. Richard Harambe (@Richard_Harambe) December 23, 2020
'Stunning' and 'brave' ? pic.twitter.com/WUu5GTu5Gi
— J Owen Shroyer ? (@Allidoisown) December 23, 2020
— Ryan (World Heavyweight Champion) Ratchford (@ratch622) December 22, 2020
Is "2020 Journalist" the new word for "activist" now that "activist" means "peaceful rioter?" It's hard to keep up with internet slang
— President J of Honk Nation (@HonkSJ) December 22, 2020
there are good journalists, but what most seem to not understand is this has been a hard year for EVERYONE. journalists weren't hit harder, yet they act like martyrs. out-of-touch, elitist, self-aggrandizing journalists (which seem to be the majority) make the profession hated.
— Jessica O’Donnell (@heckyessica) December 23, 2020
— EMG326 (@grewecrew) December 23, 2020
This is fantastic letter, Julie. We’ve never needed journalists more than we do right now to guide us to the truth. Being a journalist takes brains, determination, modesty and the ability to see both sides of…..hahahahahahahahaha hahahaha I can’t. I tried. Bahahahaha. ??
— Holly Briden, Psy.M. (@HollyBriden) December 23, 2020
— Brad Seigfried (@bseigfried81) December 22, 2020
How many journalists have lost their incomes and livelihoods as the result of the “toughest year of their lives”?
How many have asked why these lockdowns are necessary, rather than why weren’t they imposed earlier, and more brutally, during the “toughest year of their lives”?
— WFC (@wheatfrom) December 22, 2020
Master zoom?? So we're doing that whole participation trophy thing for journalists now too?
My 9 year old "anchors" from our family room, tracks from my closet, and produces on his $200 dell laptop. It's a privilege, not a hardship. Get a grip.
— ⚡Voluntari Elle⚡ (@jess_bbg) December 23, 2020
Odd, this basically describes my elementary school kids and remote learning. #whoworeitbetter
— Lord Evan Brown, Phd in Chugology, He/Haw, Reptile (@EvanBrown86) December 22, 2020
All we need now is journalists in masks doing a dance video.
— Charro Avittia (@AvittiaCharro) December 23, 2020
✍?nominated✍?for✍?the✍?List✍? pic.twitter.com/fcpaKVJeR4
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) December 23, 2020
“Strong enough to ask tough, soul-searching questions”
What’s your favorite ice cream? pic.twitter.com/fNcK3sRpFr
— The Degüello (@TheDeguello) December 23, 2020
When oh when will journalists get the respect they deserve for–*checks open letter*–being paid to teleconference from home while others are being driven into generational poverty? ?
— Marvin Shackelford (@WorderFarmer) December 22, 2020
And you wonder why people think you are completely disconnected from them, when you cant see serious struggles of people behind your minor inconveniences.
— Slavchan (@Slavchanin) December 23, 2020
We really could go on forever. They still don’t get it.
Related:
‘Stunning and brave’! Who’s up for an ‘oral history of how CNN journalists survived election 2020’? https://t.co/QMCxUDLAWy
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 16, 2020
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