Comments on: Video: Aunt Bethany says, “Everyone with a laptop thinks they’re a journalist”

By: Suitably Flip

Suitably Flip — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:08:28 +0000

Helen Thomas Wonders If Bloggers Are Dangerous, Still In the Navy…

The latest detached fugue from Aunt Bethany is a real corker….

By: Zorro

Zorro — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:54:09 +0000

“… the average citizen doesn’t understand the rules…” Spoken like a true elitist.

Helen, it’s time for the old rocking chair.

By: Tantor

Tantor — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:35:42 +0000

The reason so many people with a laptop think they’re journalists is that it’s so easy for amateurs to do a better job than the professional journalists.

By: seejanemom

seejanemom — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:24:04 +0000

But everyone with a front row seat in the White House Press Room is a journalist?

……nkay…..

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:56:06 +0000

Does she prefer this type of journalist: Journalist Fired for Cemetery Urination

By: Theworldisnotenough

Theworldisnotenough — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:12:30 +0000

Aunt Bethany, priceless.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:07:06 +0000

No, I’m not. Too late for that – you’re safe :)

Seriously now, I liked your objectivity about the overblown significance journalists attribute to themselves.

By: Enrique

Enrique — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:00:50 +0000

always liked you but lately more so than before :)

Are you hitting on me? Shucks.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:45:20 +0000

Slublog, agreed!

By: Dave Shay

Dave Shay — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:42:32 +0000

Dinosaur Lady: Welcome to the world of outsourcing.

By: Slublog

Slublog — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:27:05 +0000

5. Embrace agenda journalism.
6. Insert own political bias.
7. Claim that you are not biased.
8. Pontificate how great you are.
9. Denigrate those who disagree with you.
10. Do it all in the name of GOOD.

Good edits, but you have to put #6 just behind #3.

Then it will be perfect.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:20:12 +0000

Caption “Ian and Maureen, at a later stage in life”.

On a more serious and consequential note:

1. Go to an event.
2. Write down what people say.
3. Go back to the newsroom.
4. Describe what you saw and heard.
5. Embrace agenda journalism.
6. Insert own political bias.
7. Claim that you are not biased.
8. Pontificate how great you are.
9. Denigrate those who disagree with you.
10. Do it all in the name of GOOD.

That’s it, folks.

Slublog on March 6, 2007 at 3:43 PM

Fixed it for you Slublog – thanks for starting :)

Enrique on March 6, 2007 at 4:35 PM – always liked you but lately more so than before :)

By: warriorlawyer

warriorlawyer — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:06:35 +0000

LOL! Valiant – That’s got to be the one! Loved her rendition of “saying grace”.

By: Valiant

Valiant — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:59:53 +0000

This Aunt Bethany? The resemblance is uncanny.

By: BacaDog

BacaDog — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:59:12 +0000

Let’s test the pain ray on Helen. No need for the puke ray, her photo did that.

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:46:09 +0000

She couldn’t hear a dumptruck driving through a nitroglycerin factory.

ScottMcC on March 6, 2007 at 4:27 PM

:) Love that line!

By: BigOrangeAxe

BigOrangeAxe — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:45:15 +0000

**IRONY ALERT**

Did anyone else notice that she said, “Anyone with a laptop can be a journalist” to a guy that probably uses a laptop to be a journalist?

By: Watcher

Watcher — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:38:35 +0000

When I see Bethany, I think Real Verse. Damn You.

Yeah, I saw the name Bethany in the title… then I saw the miserable creature in the picture below the post. Now I feel dead inside. Thanks, Allah.

By: CP

CP — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:37:24 +0000

Everyone in the WH Press Room thinks they’re a journalist.

By: thirteen28

thirteen28 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:35:27 +0000

Using the name “Bethany” in the same context as a story centered on Helen Thomas is criminal. You should give yourself 30 lashes with a rattan cane.

By: Enrique

Enrique — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:35:26 +0000

I have a degree in journalism, and believe me – there’s nothing that U of Iowa taught me that you couldn’t figure out on your own by reading a newspaper and trying to imitate the style.

When journalists return to the tired line “anybody with a laptop thinks they’re a journalist,” what they’re really saying is “I need to justify my student loans/tuition with an inflated sense of self-importance.”

By: ScottMcC

ScottMcC — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:27:19 +0000

She couldn’t hear a dumptruck driving through a nitroglycerin factory.

By: rplat

rplat — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:24:07 +0000

Tell me again why anyone with a laptop can’t be a journalist.

By: JetBoy

JetBoy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:21:13 +0000

Talk about getting something off your chest…

She needs to get her chest off her lap.

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:09:53 +0000

“I’ll never talk to a reporter again!” Thomas reportedly exclaimed. “We were just talking – I was ranting – and he wrote about it. That isn’t right. We all say stuff we don’t want printed.”

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