This article is so stupid it makes me angry. What's is Mr. Carr's point? That people who report the news are sometimes doing it for the sake of their own aggra

This article is so stupid it makes me angry. What's is Mr. Carr's point? That people who report the news are sometimes doing it for the sake of their own aggrandizement rather than pure altruism? Then why is there a byline link on your post, Mr. Carr? Why do you draw a salary as a journalist? Is this something new? I remember CNN journalists covering Katrina visibly preening themselves as they got more and more worked up about what a tragedy it was, and what good work they were doing by reporting it. The anchors who kicked off the 9/11 reporting knew that not only were they covering a world-changing event, but a career-changing one for them. To be a journalist is to have this conflict of interest. The fact that it happens on Twitter and other social media too, when the journalists are amateurs, is completely and utterly irrelevant. What happens in real life happens online too. It seems this keeps taking journalists by surprise, who then report it as if it's a breakthrough. Shopping - online! Dating - online! Child molestation - online! Bullying - online! Support groups - online! But of course my posting this is obviously fatally compromised because, as Mr. Carr knows, I'm really only doing it so you guys will vote it up and increase my karma. I guess all my points are invalid! Oh well.