More on journalebrities
The Pew Research Center released a report a few days ago about the journalists people admired the most. The person named most often was Katie Couric, but that was by only 5 percent of those surveyed. Forty-four percent didn’t — or couldn’t — name anyone. That’s a sad state of affairs.
What I found even more amazing was that 2 percent named Jon Stewart as their most admired journalist. What the….? Stewart says all the time he’s not a real journalist, but there you go.
I find that even worse than Bill O’Reilly’s second place finish with 4 percent! Let’s say that word again, newsies: journalebrities.
The actual question asked of just over 1,000 people was: Thinking about the news, what journalist or news person do you most admire? I can’t tell if the survey covered just TV and radio journalists, but I have to ask about newspaper journalists. Could the average person name one, short of perhaps Bob Woodward? I doubt it.
Who’s your most admired journalist?