Drew Zahns brief article focus on journalists:
Separating the practitioners from their profession is a misdirection trick. The 28 percent 27 percent numbers for journalists would be a lot lower if you include journalists in questions asked about the media. I admit that many Americans have a journalist or two they like, but that is not a blanket endorsement for mainstream media journalism.
Personally, I will never believe that Americans have any use for journalists who went into journalism Because I wanted to make a difference. To no ones surprise Making a difference pays exceptionally well. Those exorbitant salaries are paid with tax deductible advertising dollars. In fact, the entire media industry is funded by taxpayers. And talk about double-dipping; journalists who write books advertise them on the taxpayers dime!
Id like to make a difference and eliminate the advertising tax deduction given to TV journalism. Id leave it for print in order to avoid First Amendment issues, and because hard-copy newspapers and news magazines have one foot in the grave anyway.
Here is graph of the poll Drew Zahn talks about:
First, the military would be knocking on 100 percent were it not for liberalisms America-haters. I would like to see a comprehensive poll on how Americans feel about flesh and blood MEN & WOMEN in the military defending the country, and how they feel about the US military fighting touchy-feely UN wars.
Secondly, teachers coming in at 72 percent is an example of separating the practitioners from their professions. It also shows how misinformed Americans are because of journalism. If media is an instrument of government propaganda as many believe, then it follows that education is propaganda itself. Every foul thing done to this country came from teachers, teachers unions, the NEA, the AFT, and the Dept of Education. And they did it with tax dollars.
As Ive said many times, in addition to all of the harm teachers unions do to this country the elected officials who did the most lasting harm all came from the academic community; Woodrow Wilson, LBJ, W. J. Clinton, and his mentor J. William Fulbright. Barack Taqiyya also has a background in academia, and he is not finished yet. (FDR is on a level all by himself.)
On top of everything else the Socialist propaganda teachers rain down on young minds in classrooms is fueled by a well-lubricated revolving door between government officials and the academy.
NOTE: The welfare state says the strong must protect the weak economically. Nobody except me is saying emotionally fragile children should be protected from teachers.
My point: Americans have to be terribly misinformed to give teachers a 72 percent favorable rating.
Images mean something
A long time ago I asked myself why teachers have been getting away with forcing socialism on children and on young adults? I use the word forcing because without balance no other word describes it so well. My speculation on the matter concluded there are two popular images of teachers; Mr. Chipping and Ichabod Crane. Hollywood movies promote the illusion that Mr. Chips is reality, while Ichabod Crane is a cartoon fiction.
Bottom line: Americans should view teachers collectively as Ichabod Crane rather than Mr Chipping.
Finally, Will Rogers pretty much summed up higher education when he said:
Is there any group in the world more convinced they are owed a living than are the intellectuals imbedded in colleges and universities?
Anyone challenging public funding for the education of ADULTS is quickly dismissed as an uninformed yahoo.
In our world of political realities any move to cut funding earmarked for higher education is viewed as a direct assault on liberalism itself calling for drastic countermeasures such as violent demonstrations. Death is preferable to expulsion from the feed tub according to public larder liberals in academic circles. Not their own deaths, of course, but the deaths of the nameless, faceless, masses yearning for a college diploma paid for by strangers.
In the heat of battle, academics would like nothing better than to orchestrate a demonstration that ends with the massacre of gullible sign-carriers engaged in a peaceful protest. There is no better way for defenders of the faith to secure their own lifetime tenure at the public trough than to sacrifice unwitting martyrs.
Theres no denying that higher education is truly mystical in that it migrates by osmosis to the less educated. Even janitors, secretaries, and assorted political hacks vacationing in education industry bureaucracies are convinced they are too precious to work as hard as the taxpayers who maintain them.
Separating the practitioners from their profession is a misdirection trick. The 28 percent 27 percent numbers for journalists would be a lot lower if you include journalists in questions asked about the media. I admit that many Americans have a journalist or two they like, but that is not a blanket endorsement for mainstream media journalism.
Personally, I will never believe that Americans have any use for journalists who went into journalism Because I wanted to make a difference. To no ones surprise Making a difference pays exceptionally well. Those exorbitant salaries are paid with tax deductible advertising dollars. In fact, the entire media industry is funded by taxpayers. And talk about double-dipping; journalists who write books advertise them on the taxpayers dime!
Id like to make a difference and eliminate the advertising tax deduction given to TV journalism. Id leave it for print in order to avoid First Amendment issues, and because hard-copy newspapers and news magazines have one foot in the grave anyway.
Here is graph of the poll Drew Zahn talks about:
First, the military would be knocking on 100 percent were it not for liberalisms America-haters. I would like to see a comprehensive poll on how Americans feel about flesh and blood MEN & WOMEN in the military defending the country, and how they feel about the US military fighting touchy-feely UN wars.
Secondly, teachers coming in at 72 percent is an example of separating the practitioners from their professions. It also shows how misinformed Americans are because of journalism. If media is an instrument of government propaganda as many believe, then it follows that education is propaganda itself. Every foul thing done to this country came from teachers, teachers unions, the NEA, the AFT, and the Dept of Education. And they did it with tax dollars.
As Ive said many times, in addition to all of the harm teachers unions do to this country the elected officials who did the most lasting harm all came from the academic community; Woodrow Wilson, LBJ, W. J. Clinton, and his mentor J. William Fulbright. Barack Taqiyya also has a background in academia, and he is not finished yet. (FDR is on a level all by himself.)
On top of everything else the Socialist propaganda teachers rain down on young minds in classrooms is fueled by a well-lubricated revolving door between government officials and the academy.
NOTE: The welfare state says the strong must protect the weak economically. Nobody except me is saying emotionally fragile children should be protected from teachers.
My point: Americans have to be terribly misinformed to give teachers a 72 percent favorable rating.
Images mean something
A long time ago I asked myself why teachers have been getting away with forcing socialism on children and on young adults? I use the word forcing because without balance no other word describes it so well. My speculation on the matter concluded there are two popular images of teachers; Mr. Chipping and Ichabod Crane. Hollywood movies promote the illusion that Mr. Chips is reality, while Ichabod Crane is a cartoon fiction.
Bottom line: Americans should view teachers collectively as Ichabod Crane rather than Mr Chipping.
Finally, Will Rogers pretty much summed up higher education when he said:
Is there any group in the world more convinced they are owed a living than are the intellectuals imbedded in colleges and universities?
Anyone challenging public funding for the education of ADULTS is quickly dismissed as an uninformed yahoo.
In our world of political realities any move to cut funding earmarked for higher education is viewed as a direct assault on liberalism itself calling for drastic countermeasures such as violent demonstrations. Death is preferable to expulsion from the feed tub according to public larder liberals in academic circles. Not their own deaths, of course, but the deaths of the nameless, faceless, masses yearning for a college diploma paid for by strangers.
In the heat of battle, academics would like nothing better than to orchestrate a demonstration that ends with the massacre of gullible sign-carriers engaged in a peaceful protest. There is no better way for defenders of the faith to secure their own lifetime tenure at the public trough than to sacrifice unwitting martyrs.
Theres no denying that higher education is truly mystical in that it migrates by osmosis to the less educated. Even janitors, secretaries, and assorted political hacks vacationing in education industry bureaucracies are convinced they are too precious to work as hard as the taxpayers who maintain them.
