Certainly not a requirement for HN, but the fact is interesting and the fact you cleverly chose not to divulge it indicates motivated reasoning suggesting you wished your critique of my comment would appear more disinterested than it really was. 20 years at a job is the bulk of most people's professional lives, so it's really not irrelevant at all. It's true, I'm not a journalist. I probably should have put that in my bio. If I write anything attacking someone critical of programmers on HN, I'll be sure to disclose my bias. I will say, however, that being a journalist for only 20 years long ago very distinctly shaped your style of reasoning. You're really showing your stripes as a professional journalist by ignoring the meat of my argument to focus on the parts that offend you in particular. If you're being fair, you started it with the personal attack. My attack was on journalists, in general. You are mashing up comments I made about you with comments critical of a class of people doing a certain thing I think is pretty disgraceful. That's somewhat dishonest and the kind of thing I'm critical of journalists for doing habitually, as part of the job description.

Anyway, if something you did for 20 years was years ago, then you're not the target audience of my comment. I don't want to disturb your retirement. I also admit that journalism way back in the day when you practiced it had a certain editorial sobriety that masked much of the ideological bias. Some of that is a function of the post-WWII consensus being effectively dead now. That wasn't the case back when you trod the boards. It was also much more common then for newsrooms to include working class voices. There were also many more news organizations back then, before consolidation. Those days are gone. The mask is off. People see it.

You may not like my tone, but people waste a lot of time arguing over stuff that really doesn't make a bit of difference. Sometimes ridicule, satire, and sarcasm are more effective tools of conversion than more of the same tired whinging about well-meaning people. I don't think ALL "human beings" are my enemy, just some. Do you have no enemies? I doubt that very much.