There were lots of long scruffy beards there! Mostly on guys wearing Trump shirts and MAGA hats.
What the article didn’t say was that every time POTUS mentioned CNN, the entire arena BOO’ed vigorously. It was a hoot!
The fundamentals of modern journalism are that:Hence, the “MSM” that we know and “love."
- Journalism is about surprise, which is typically the failure of a plan or expectation. Journalism is therefore about bad news.
- Journalism is therefore systematically negative - knowingly so.
- Major US journalism is wire service journalism - and therefore all major US journalists are in continual virtual meetings about their business - about what the news is. And that has been going on since before the Civil War.
- Consequently
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)major us journalism is necessarily a cartel. At the very least, you’d have to “naive as a babe” to believe anything else.
- The journalism cartel projects the conceit that names of political virtues (“objective,” “liberal,” “progressive,” etc.) each mean nothing other than agreement with the journalism cartel. “Objective” differs in the cartel’s lexicon in that its usage is always and only to describe journalists, and no other. No other description of a journalist is permitted by the lexicon.
- But since journalism knows that journalism is negative, the conceit that “journalists are objective” directly implies that “negativity is objectivity.” And that conceit is patently cynical.
- Journalism is cynical about society and naive about government, which are two different things.