{"id":199127,"date":"2007-09-05T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/05\/what-rox-populi-said-journamalism\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T16:26:00","slug":"what-rox-populi-said-journamalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/05\/what-rox-populi-said-journamalism\/","title":{"rendered":"What Rox Populi Said: Journamalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She has a <a href=\"http:\/\/roxanne.typepad.com\/rantrave\/2007\/09\/elite-journamal.html\">good post taking just one quote of Andrew Glass<\/a>, a particularly brain-dead journamalist working for the Politico<sup>1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>I would add one thing though, which that good Ms. Populi misses, that Glass screws up on his Swiss neutrality analogy.<\/p>\n<p>He likes to think that the Swiss are a bunch of chocolate and cuckoo clock making people holding hands and singing &#8220;Kumbaya&#8221;.  They aren&#8217;t, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">they never were<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>They gained national identity when they were the most feared mercenaries in Europe.  They were not neutral, they were rented for a fee.<\/p>\n<p>Following the abolition of merc armies, they became aggressively neutral, building an impressive citizen army, mobilizing their population, and shooting and capturing anything that crossed their borders.<\/p>\n<p>They had no territorial ambitions, but they were people that you did not want to f$#% with.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>1<\/sup>But I&#8217;m repeating myself.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She has a good post taking just one quote of Andrew Glass, a particularly brain-dead journamalist working for the Politico1. I would add one thing though, which that good Ms. Populi misses, that Glass screws up on his Swiss neutrality analogy. He likes to think that the Swiss are a bunch of chocolate and cuckoo &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}