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"A long journey on which friends and circumstances taught me how to laugh, and all too often as recent years roll by, how to cry. I think I learned a few things along the way, but not enough. Never enough.

I don't think I was ever an angry young man, although sometimes my beliefs saw me marching in opposite directions to my family and friends, but I may have made up for those pacific years in the past decade or two with increasing irritability. Those close to me tell me I get out of line these days when I fume about state of media in 2010." -Jim Hume

A new year does not necessarily shake old habits. Everyday before I work through an ever growing list of emails, I troll my twitter feed to find something to read. News, stories, victories, etc. I follow a lot of journalism school publications and newspapers which have given me a personal news feed full of very different points of view. I probably read more newspaper articles because of twitter than I ever had in print.... but that's for another day.

One way or another I stumbled upon this article. It was published on the 26th of December by The Victoria Times Colonist and is titled, Good Old Days of Journalism Weren't Always So Good. Say it ain't so! The article was by Jim Hume and is a reflective piece on his career in journalism on the eve of his 87th birthday. 

If you are like me and need a break every once in a while, consider this story the piece of ginger between other assignments you have to do today. If you don't allow your palate to be cleansed from time to time, you might miss something. 

I think it's a great. Hope you enjoy:

http://www.timescolonist.com/travel/Good+days+journalism+weren+always+good/4026475/story.html