Joe the Plumber, Citizen Journalist

You don't need a fancy degree to be a good journalist, but you do need to think that reporting the news is important.

There's plenty of legitimate criticism of the way journalists have behaved while covering our wars in the Middle East. But arguing that reporters should be banned from war zones is appalling. There are plenty of important stories for journalists to tell, and doing so does not necessarily mean giving aid and comfort to our enemies. Wanting better journalism out of supposedly seasoned reporters doesn't mean becoming mouthpieces for the government, but, unfortunately, Joe the Plumber is the story, rather than just the historian.

H/T The Weekly Standard.