Posted by Nicholas at March 2, 2009 01:49 PMSee enough movies and you'll quickly discover that nobody likes the news media. No matter the political viewpoint of the director, the writers, or the actors — from socialist Nick Nolte, to conservative Bruce Willis, to libertarians Clint Eastwood and Curt Russell — TV and newspaper people are invariably portrayed in movies as dimbulbs and dillholes. Media people invariably take this as praise (they actually think they're in the middle of the conventional political spectrum), a sign that they're doing their job right. Their utter inability to see it for what it really is, the lowest rate of customer satisfaction in Western civilization, is another reason they're going under.
L. Neil Smith, "Rocky Mountain News: Not R.I.P., Good Riddance", Libertarian Enterprise, 2009-03-01
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