[ProgressingAmerica]

In 2019, my book "Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism".....

I would strongly recommend people either read or listen to Will Irwin's study of Journalism. Today's advocacy journalism has been with us since day one when "Objective" journalism was born in the 1920s. It has always been about advocacy, but, but advocacy while wearing a mask. It did NOT begin at Watergate.

The American Newspaper

The text is free - the audio book is also free. Every bit of it is in the public domain. The audio files are not all that long - it's a short and succinct work.

In particular, the first section (1) goes quite into detail about "the power of the press", but by no means is every bit of important information about the manipulative nature of journalists encapsulated in section 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Newspaper

[kiryandil]

Thanks for this post!

I always deride "journalists" as "failed English majors", who weren't good enough at their native language to get a tenured English professorship. 

[nicollo]

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