Mainstream Journalism: A Joke or What?

It's not just a lapse in judgment or abrogation of any sense of duty to the commonweal but the stupidity and dysfunctional judgment trickles down to lower levels.

This photo of a Virginia Tech victim was "photoshopped" by a couple of photo editors because they believed that it showed the victim's "genitals".


Well, unfortunately, this stupidity can only be responded to with crudity.

First of all, at this size, it's relatively hard to see.

Second... well, if the photo does show the victim's genitals [sic], the guy is, to say the least (so to speak) unusually well-endowed. Specially in a detumescent state.

Third, the specimen, as it were, isn't quite where it should.

Multiply these defective judgment calls by dozens or hundreds a day....

You can't help to see what's wrong with the press:

Gross incompetence in every aspect of their jobs.

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