Journalism

The profession of a journalist is almost as old as that of a prostitute, and possibly even more contemptible. A journalist is a person without conscience and self-respect who does everything to keep people listening to them, with no means excluded. Journalists are never interested in truth, or justice, or information - they just use all that to cook up a sensation. A journalist cannot have ideas or convictions of their own - otherwise they will soon loose their job. Journalists just serve the goals of the ruling layers of the society, being well paid when the results are as desired. Journalists are largely ignorant, even if well educated. The superficial knowledge they may have is just a disguising ornamentation for the poisonous dishes they feed the people with.

Many good scientists and philosophers lost their wisdom and competence as soon as they had to fall back upon journalism. And the journalist style of some authors of the past made their work almost unusable now, when its contents looks too much blended with the irrelevant details and circumstances of the distant time - the well-known example is K.Marx and F.Engels, or V.Lenin, whose philosophy is so difficult to study that some people deny the very existence of such philosophy.

There two main tasks of a journalist: mass propaganda and mass stupefying. Mass media do not employ those who would resist to say what the boss demands - and there is little need to use the lash, since there are lots of those already stupefied, and who will say what is needed just because nothing else could enter their heads. The stupefying function of journalism is mainly performed by mass suggestion of the base instincts and interests, accompanied by the complementary process of eliterization (and thus annihilating any sense in) any serious feeling or thought.

The methods of a journalist are mere manipulation, mostly using the primitive instincts and physiological needs of humans while hushing up subjectivity and consciousness as their opposites. A journalist may report sheer facts, with no word of lie, but the very selection and layout may suggest a quite definite interpretation. There may be a science or art of journalism - which, however, cannot make this occupation any worthier.