A pleasant dream it is.Meanwhile, back in reality, the instructive case is Dan Rather and the fraudulent “Texas Air National Guard memos."
What did Dan Rather do when it was proven that the TANG “memos” story had more holes than Swiss cheese? He doubled down. He confidently expected to be exonerated and the subject changed, and to continue business-as-usual. And to a large measure he was absolutely right. CBS hired an “investigator” for the purpose of whitewashing the affair, and they swept it under the rug.Even tho it is true that Rather was indeed forced out.
The reality of this case is that Fox News was all over Benghazi, and the rest of journalism was studiously MIA. Do you now suppose that the rest of journalism is now going to go all “mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa” after the fact? Do you now suppose that the rest of journalism is going to give Fox News awards for courageous journalism? They will continue to circle the wagons and stonewall. It’s what they do. Their bias is expressed far more in what they do not say than it is in what they do say. And in this case it isn’t just CBS but all of journalism except Fox News which is actively involved in keeping the public in the dark. And, in the process, slandering Fox News.
The idea around which “liberalism” coheres is that nothing actually matters except PR.
And they are absolutely correct, in the short and medium run.
In the long run, my old tagline is accurate: "Perception wins all the battles, reality wins all the wars."
Conservatives and fiscal realists have been crying wolf for decades now. But the wolf never quite shows up, the can gets kicked a little farther down the road, and the public perception gets dulled a little more. (To thoroughly scramble metaphors.)
But the important part of the "boy who cried wolf" story that usually gets forgotten is that the wolf did eventually show up, and when he did he killed all the village's animals.
In the long run, it was the villagers who suffered most. Well, actually it was their animals, but you get my point, I assume.
IMO the wolf is presently showing up in Europe, and the US is no more than a few years behind them. Possibly less than that, as I am not knowledgeable about macrofinance matters.
Unsustainable systems will not, in the long run, be sustained. Which is back to "reality wins all the wars."
Or, the media will start reporting “new” information about Benghazi and ignore their past dereliction of duty on the issue.
It will be interesting to see whether the ideological or the personal career issues have more influence over them.