I Don't Care for Journalists, As a Rule

<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Some people are so busy being clever that they don't have time enough to be wise.  -- Thomas Sowell</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">For a variety of reasons, journalists simply aren't as sharp as they could be for the same money.  Example:  The WaPo ran a headline "California, the latest epicenter, is reporting more coronavirus cases than most countries in the world." </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">News organizations want to be:  Good looking, racially "diverse," Ivy leagued, leftist, female, LGBTQ, smug, related to Important People, more than they want to be smart or knowledgable.  It shows.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">To a large extent, the left DEDUCES reality from principles rather than OBSERVING reality and inducing principles from that.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">So many people are satisfied with the following 3-step routine to certainty:</span></p> <ol style= "margin-left: .375in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" type="1"> <li style= "margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: middle;" value= "1"