Wow, does that make me a professional journalist?

R.S. McCain:

And the same can be said of the profession of journalism, whose top practicioners too often confuse their stock in trade – an excellence of written expression – with an actual superiority of intelligence, knowledge or wisdom.

He says that like it’s a bad thing. Me, I always equated “an excellence of written expression” with “superiority of intelligence.” Maybe not knowledge or wisdom, I suppose. Not necessarily. But intelligence.

Am I wrong? Ha! Of course not! I’m a writer, you dolts!