Posted on 08/22/2016 9:42:46 AM PDT by KeyLargo
American journalism is collapsing before our eyes
By Michael Goodwin
August 21, 2016
Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.
The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand in hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.
The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America.
The largest broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — and major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play. Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent.
Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang suffers the daily beating that Trump does. The mad mullahs of Iran, who call America the Great Satan and vow to wipe Israel off the map, are treated gently by comparison.
By torching its remaining credibility in service of Clinton, the mainstream media’s reputations will likely never recover, nor will the standards. No future producer, editor, reporter or anchor can be expected to meet a test of fairness when that standard has been trashed in such willful and blatant fashion.
Liberal bias in journalism is often baked into the cake. The traditional ethos of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable leads to demands that government solve every problem. Favoring big government, then, becomes routine among most journalists, especially young ones.
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It is a patent insult to call what this biased, liberal media are doing anything equivalent to “journalism.”
The Ministry of Propaganda has been the Ministry of Propaganda for many years.
We haven’t had journalism in this country for decades.
The sales staff at IBM call this a “scorched earth sale.”
That is, you pull out all the stops to make a sale -and you succeed. But you will never sell anything to that company again.
Traveling circus shows are also a dying act. Maybe the Democrat run Media should dress up as clowns and play Pin the donkey Live on Network TV. It might help boost their comedic value.
It depends on what your definition of “is” is.
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The beginning of the end was what we did here to Dan Rather.
Thank you, Buckhead, wherever you are...
They need to be rounded up and put against a wall.
Well, that’s one...
That is a good thing.
Wow... this guy says it like it is news.
We’ve known about their blatant bias for years. Decades, in fact.
The only difference is that this year they finally have given up any pretense
The media isn’t biased. What we call the media is simply the DNC. Its a bit naïve to expect DNC propaganda organs to be unbiased or sympathetic to anything not DNC.
The only time we see a bit of daylight from them is in the first couple of days after an event occurs, when they haven’t yet figured out the political significance of what is happening. The moment they see the politics of it, from that moment on expect no truth at all.
That, and when rival factions of DNC are jostling for position within the party, for a few moments we’ll see some daylight. Otherwise, why would you expect DNC to be honest about its enemies?
Please. There hasn’t been any “journalism” to collapse in this country for years.
“I know because I was one of them. I started at the Times while the Vietnam War and civil rights movement raged, and was full of certainty about right and wrong.
My editors were, too, though in a different way. Our boss of bosses, the legendary Abe Rosenthal, knew his reporters leaned left, so he leaned right to “keep the paper straight.”
That meant the Times, except for the opinion pages, was scrubbed free of reporters’ political views, an edict that was enforced by giving the opinion and news operations separate editors. The church-and-state structure was one reason the Times was considered the flagship of journalism.
Those days are gone. The Times now is so out of the closet as a Clinton shill that it is giving itself permission to violate any semblance of evenhandedness in its news pages as well as its opinion pages.
A recent article by its media reporter, Jim Rutenberg, whom I know and like, began this way: “If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?”
Whoa, Nellie. The clear assumption is that many reporters see Trump that way, and it is noteworthy that no similar question is raised about Clinton, whose scandals are deserving only of “scrutiny.” Rutenberg approvingly cites a leftist journalist who calls one candidate “normal” and the other “abnormal.”
Clinton is hardly “normal” to the 68 percent of Americans who find her dishonest and untrustworthy, though apparently not a single one of those people writes for the Times. Statistically, that makes the Times “abnormal.”
http://nypost.com/2016/08/21/american-journalism-is-collapsing-before-our-eyes/
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