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I think Carole’s take on the show is I’m above all this and all of you and I’m just dipping into this to have the experience and I’m going to observe and stay above the fray.  Because really I’m a journalist/author/serious person, not a reality tv star.  Let me remind you 100 times about how I used to have real jobs.  A long, long time ago.

I thought she was refreshing in the beginning.  Now I’m over her.  She completely lacks self-awareness.[/quote]

+1. Agreed.[/quote]
I’m the PP who asked if this is her true self and I agree with this assessment. And she stopped working for ABC ~15 years ago. She is no longer a journalist
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She's also a novelist. "What Remains" is phenomenal. I didn't read "Widow's Guide," but it was relatively recent. Isn't it pretty typical for writers to publish books at a slow pace?

Plus, what's been on her resume is very impressive. And she's very wealthy. Why can't she do as she pleases? Why can't she do projects that interest her as they come up, and enjoy her life?[/quote]

She can do whatever she wants. But her journalism career was a long time ago. For a lack of expression, her work experience is no longer relevant. It's like high school football player who keeps talking about his glory days.

Now she's a reality tv star like the rest of them.[/quote]

OK, I'm a former journalist whose byline appeared in the Washington Post more than 10 years ago. So I don't claim to be a journalist, because my highest pinnacle was a story about condo flipping in WaPo.

Carole is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist who has traveled the globe to cover stories in war zones. She gets to call herself a journalist for life. That's big time. That's ABC, that's network news in prime time. She can dine out on that for as long as she wants to, and no current or former member of the SPJ will ever say she's not a journalist.

It's like telling someone who hasn't practiced medicine in 10 years that he's no longer a doctor, when he used to be a heart surgeon.[/quote]

You’re kidding, right? There’s an incredible amount of work and preparation that goes into getting a medical degree. That medical degree, by definition, gives someone the right to call themselves and practice as a doctor for life. That’s what it is.

Being a journalist requires no preparation whatsoever. You can be a journlist without ever having even the easiest college degree. Being a journalist is about what you DO. It’s not about what you’ve done in the past the way being a doctor is.

It’s pretty insulting to real professionals to put journalists on the same level as medical doctors.

And fwiw I don’t think many doctors who move on from medicine still call themselves a doctor anyway. They’d keep it on their resume but most likely refer to themselves as whatever they’re currently doing. I have a PhD in mathematics. However, I’ve moved on, and I don’t refer to myself as a mathematician although I’ve earned the right to do so. That would be weird.

The problem is that Carol has not moved on. She doesn’t do anything. If someone asks about your past then you can tell them, but you can’t go around expecting people to treat you a certain way (not that most people would probably have had a ton of respect for a journalist anyway) when you did it for a few years a lifetime ago and don’t even have aspirations of going back because you know you couldn’t handle it anymore. She needs to wake up and face reality.[/quote]

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