Dave Barry, journalism & objectivity

Dave Barry quote re Journalistic objectivity

I am a big fan of Dave Barry in small doses. I can’t read his books for very long because once you figure out that everything is a setup for the punchlines, it stops being funny. But here’s a small dose that got me laughing today when I read it in The Patriot, the thrice-weekly newsletter of The Federalist. My all-time favorite news source put out by Marc Alexander. Anyway, here’s the quote:

“We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.”

—Dave Barry

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at 10:23 am and is filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Dave Barry quote re Journalistic objectivity

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