Posted on 05/27/2018 8:48:04 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Journalism got a lot smaller last week. The media lost two of their biggest names – author and journalist Tom Wolfe and Interview Magazine.
Wolfe, who wrote “The Right Stuff,” spent decades making people appear larger than life. Interview, founded by pop culture icon Andy Warhol, used its larger-than-normal format to make its subjects grow in stature.
The industry is diminished, left with its war against President Trump as journalists battle over whether an informant sent to spy on the Trump campaign is actually a “spy.”
That is part of their larger anti-Trump crusade, but it’s also tied to how negatively the press is viewed generally.
Tesla CEO and tech wunderkind Elon Musk provided a huge example of the anger at the media, tweeting: “Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda.”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Four things to understand about SPYGATE:
1) There was no spy in the Trump campaign.
2) The spying that did NOT happen was totally justified.
3) It would be bad for national security to identify the spy who doesn’t exist.
4) His name is Stefan.
Scott Adams
Shrink?
Dan’s got a fairly high resolution journalism detector if it can measure .35% journalism to .28%.
Looks like reporters self-regulate:
To get accredited for the White House, a reporter first needs to be approved for a congressional press pass by the Standing Committee of Correspondents, elected by accredited reporters.
...congressional reporters must demonstrate that they work for a publication whose “principal business is the daily dissemination of original news and opinion of interest to a broad segment of the public...
The White House also requires an additional Secret Service background check.
His using celebrity Tom Wolfe as an example is a little stupid. But journalism has been dead for years/the media have embraced partisan smears. Thanks Beave Meister.
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