Posted on 12/17/2023 4:32:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
The White House so far does not seem to be buying into the temper tantrums on the highways, the obnoxious behavior at so many colleges and universities, and the puerile nonsense of unsigned petitions and vigils by those ashamed to show their faces or reveal their names.
We get the largely unreadable Washington Post because my husband must have a hard-copy paper with a sports section to read with his morning coffee. To say its reporting stinks is to overpraise it. Still, Saturday morning I saw the first glimmer of actual reporting, relegated as it was, nevertheless, to the ever-lefty fluff of the Style Section: “News from the frontline of culture,” per the Post’s website. The article is not on the Post website, and I had to go to sfgate to find it available online. It seems to me the Post has done what it could to bury it. Here’s why -- it exposes the rot in journalism today.
NBC News broke the news last week that more than 40 White House interns had sent an extraordinary letter to President Biden opposing the administration's support of Israel's military action in Gaza. So did HuffPost, when it reported Monday that 140 interns on Capitol Hill had sent an open letter protesting the war; it alleges that members of Congress have suppressed a wave of constituent support for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
The twin stories touched off a small wave of follow-up coverage, much of it portraying the purported letters as a rebuke to Biden and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Except the letters, and the news stories about them, left a few important questions unanswered -- namely, who wrote them and whether the number of people reportedly supporting them actually did so.
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Honesty in journalism is long gone. Almost all are propagandists for the communist ‘RATs now.
>> Honesty in journalism is long gone.
There is still honesty in journalism. But the organizations that we have grown accustomed to thinking of as PRACTICING journalism no longer do. They are now proud to act as “influencers”, not reporters.
You have to search to find journalism, but it’s out there.
This is the beauty and service of Free Republic as an aggregator and community analyzer of all kinds of information; Free Republic thereby actually SYNTHESIZES a form of honest journalism.
a wave of constituent support for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
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There was a ceasefire going on until Sept 7.
“some people” violated it then.
Now the same “some people”, are calling for another ceasefire. About as permanent as the previous one.
That’s my opinion as well. I enjoy the exercise of watching news being crowdsourced on FR.
We hear the spectrum of opinions from the stupid to the conspiratorial, but like water finding it’s own level, over time it gets closer to the truth than you can get from any mainstream source.
The trick is staying with an event long enough to reach that kernel of truth.
The sports sections are inundated with woke and as such are unreadable. In addition, if they lie on the news pages, they will on the sports pages as well.
Wait a bit, until most "journalism" is AI generated. And, it will be.
Garbage in, garbage out, writ large, 24/7.
Yep. Tagline says it with every post.
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