I can't help this. I've responded to a post over at Rick's place and I just have to post my response here...it was just too much fun.

The discussion was about the journalism of much of today's media being involved in promoting one persuasion over the other...often to the ignoring of negative facts about the person or situation they are promoting...

From Websters Redactionary Dictionary:

Journalist:
An Extinct American historical figure. Legend has it that these rare and valued persons were continually at the top rung of righteousness seeking truth. There was a sudden and shocking de-volution of the Journalists breed until they were transformed into mere "yes" people and "cover-up" artists for powerful political figures.

They became literal whores to the status-quo until the American public could stomach them no longer and they every one took on the reputation of fiction crafters.

America misses the extinct Journalists and scientists are currently searching for the DNA of former famed Journalists in a desperate effort to clone once again the real thing. There has been a heated debate about the impact on current culture should the blistering heat of the fabled truth-detectors ever actually be resurrected.

Current synonyms for Journalist: Migraine, Dysentery, Wormwood, Cheap Trick.

Now...wasn't that fun?