'Do you make a good journalist?' - Multiple-choice aptitude test
12 February 2007
{HRI 20070212}
(Humor, with the
futile intention
of penetrating
the elephant's
skin wrapped
around the soul
of journalists*)
'
You like quizzes and cross-word puzzles, isn't it
- and you would gladly assume, that solving these, does increase
your ability to think
even though you have no idea at all, how thinking works.
'
'
The multiple-choice questions:
'
1. A sociopath is...
a. a garden path leading up to a home for old age people.
(yes = 10 points)
b. the annual meeting of a group of social workers.
(yes = 20 points)
c.(I know I have no need of the term, but if asked, I would probably
say, it is) someone in a mental institution, not including its
medical staff - (indeed = 30 points)
'
'
2. Lunch time is...
a. between noon and one hour after noon.
(yes = 10 points)
b. when your boss harasses you to get work done.
(yes = 20 points)
c. for people who work - (indeed = 30 points)
'
'
3. What is true...
a. can not be known.
(yes = 10 points)
b. must not be made known.
(yes = 20 points)
c. is harmful to world peace and to productivity (and to my job), if
made known - (indeed = 30 points)
'
'
4. The higher the social position is, of a person reported about...
a. the more likely he or she will tell the truth.
(yes = 10 points)
b. the more he or she should be believed.
(yes = 20 points)
c. the more one should report, whatever he or she says, as being true
- (indeed = 30 points)
'
'
5. Impartiality is...
a. not having any own viewpoint.
(yes = 10 points)
b. not wanting to have my own viewpoint.
(yes = 20 points)
c. preventing my own viewpoint from being seen or understood, when
people see my reporting or writing - (indeed = 30 points)
'
'
6. My own IQ is...
a. high.
(yes = 10 points)
b. higher than that of others; in particular higher, than that of the
persons I talk to or write about.
(yes = 20 points)
c. very high, but that fact is kept well hidden by me from others:
I have to keep myself stupid, in order to be able to do my work
properly - (indeed = 30 points)
'
'
'
Scoring now:
60 points = dismal failure as a journalist, but might be a great
success as a novelist (writing fiction).
120 points = mediocre as a journalist, but will not be fired.
180 points = definitely a journalist or potentially a very successful
journalist who will be hired by any newspaper or by any
news agency anywhere in the world.
(see References, below)
'
Koos Nolst Trenite 'Cause Trinity'
human rights philosopher and poet
'Men of all nations came
to listen to Solomon's wisdom,
sent by all the kings of the world,
who had heard of his wisdom.'
1 Kings 4:34
(*)
__________
References:
'
'We Could Have Had Peace On Earth By Now - Were It Not For The
Sociopaths Putin and Hu Jintao'
{HRI 20070207-V2.1}
(7 February 2007 - Version 2.1 on 12 Feb 2007)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/msg/7d6bb6fd0bf9f50f
'
'Far ABOVE the IQ of Journalists - People ARE not "Anti-American" '
{HRI 20070106-V2.2.2}
(6 January 2007 - Version 2.2.2 on 20 Jan 2007)
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.military.naval/msg/993973fbafc57d5c
'
'Facing Having Been Made Spiritually Blind'
{HRI 20070105-V3.3}
(5 January 2007 - Version 3.3 on 4 Feb 2007)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.philosophy/msg/cf749a082023282d
'
'What The Whole Protest Against The Iraq War, Is About'
{HRI 20061229-V2.2.1}
(29 December 2006 - Version 2.2.1 on 4 Jan 2007)
http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.misc/msg/d54acb47104ab3d0
'
'No-Conscience Journalists Omit The Vital Context, And Commit
Acts Of War Mongering'
{HRI 20061228-2.0.1}
(28 December 2006 - Version 2.0.1)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.org.un/msg/44082ee350ccf31c
'
'A True Russian Hero Defamed by the malice of a Reuters reporter,
Louis Charbonneau in Berlin, "for Dignity and Honor"' (enclosed:
Has Putin murdered YOU already? Me n'yet {HRI-20061122-V1.2})
(14 December 2006 - Version 1.1)
http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.misc/msg/1458c3035407eb0f
'
'In a Democracy, Criminal Minds can not run for office
- and any vote on them is null and void'
{HRI note 20061201-V3.0.1}
(1 December 2006 - Version 3.0.1 on 2 Dec 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal/msg/3670050125dda8c9?fwc=1
'
'The No-Conscience attitude of Associated Press (AP) and AFP,
now shown in AP's Steve Gutterman (in Moscow), David String
(in London) and Amy Tiebel (in Tel Aviv), and in AFP's
Prashant Rao in London' (includes {HRI 20061122-V1.2})
(26 November 2006 - Version 5.0.1 on 27 Nov 2006 at 15:00 GMT)
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.politics.misc/msg/0cfc32fa16a0dfa3
'
'Associated Press Insanely Destructive Writers: Steve Gutterman
and Edith M. Lederer, for instance in their article 'Russia,
China won't back Iran sanctions,' of 2 Nov 2006'
(encl. {HRI 20061025-V1.3} "Reasons" given by Journalists)
(2 November 2006 - Version 2)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.russian/msg/9f3ed8a529b15350
'
'Raising the AP, AFP and Reuters etc. Journalists Intelligence
Quotient - up to One Hundred'
(encl. {HRI 20050803-V3.4.1} 'The Motive (etc.)')
(29 October 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.military.naval/msg/95fa6421bd6f4202
'
'The "Reasons, Because" Given by Journalists of AP, AFP and
Reuters, etc., As They Print the Repulsive Lies of Putin (the
'Russian Snake') and Hu Jintao (the 'Chinese Hyena') "as true" '
{HRI 20061025-V1.3}
(25 October 2006 - Version 1.3)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.japan/msg/d58624a54a71ea12
'
'I am writing for you, for people whom I love and try to protect,
and who love and wish to protect me and others' - (includes
'Opposing The Nature Of The Creation {HRI 20010829-pi6-V4.1})
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/b41ad00120e93276?fwc=1
'
'Reuters journalist Tom Perry's war-mongering disease: REFUSING
TO EXPOSE (in this case) the Criminal Mind Nasrallah of Lebanon'
{HRI 20060730-V1.0.1}
(30 July 2006 - Version 1.0.1)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.usa.congress/msg/a3ced5b1b62f23fc?fwc=1
'
'Why not suitable for Associated Press journalists - Introduction
to {HRI 20050803-V3.4.1} (Murderers are always lying about
their "motives" - stop believing and parrotting them, start
FACING them - The Motive Of Terrorism etc., Is NOT Political,
NOT Ethnic, NOT Religious, NOT for lack of Wealth or Education)'
(19 July 2006 - Version 1.1)
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/93ae5faf57a90b77?fwc=1
'
'Insane Associated Press Journalist Headline Today:
"China Spares the Life of Tibetan Monk" - Why'
(26 January 2005)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.journalism/msg/afe9a18c3b7261e7
'
'Journalist Current Ethics And Intelligence
- Refusal To Recognize And Expose Criminal Minds'
{HRI 20041230-V2.4}
(30 Dec 2004 - Version 2.4 on 26 June 2005)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.journalism/msg/228618fec9801d82?fwc=1
'
'If You Want Peace, Then Do Understand And Face Evil
- A Short Course In Human Rights Philosophy'
{HRI 20041225-V1.02}
(25 December 2004 - Christmas Day)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.rights.human/msg/34578c4c3a9f0b22?fwc=1
'
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