Posted on 04/19/2016 7:02:49 PM PDT by Beave Meister
First Amendment: More information travels faster to more consumers than ever before. So why does a new survey show trust in media at rock bottom? Because so much more accurate information is available elsewhere.
When Matt Drudge in early 1998 broke the story of President Bill Clinton’s indiscretions in the Oval Office study with Monica Lewinsky, it was the dawn of a new era in news reporting. Woodward and Bernstein seemed like the hip, new faces of journalism when they came along in the early 1970s and helped bring down a president. But although no one ever made a movie about Drudge, with a big star playing him, his Drudge Report heralded a bigger change in the public’s reception of information.
Not only did Clinton’s impeachment not lead to the president’s conviction, he may actually be returning to the White House next year. The two reporters for the fixture of the establishment of the nation’s Capital, the Washington Post, may have had long hair, but Drudge in his retro fedora was the real revolutionary. And, unlike in Woodward and Bernstein’s case, the establishment did not cheer him on.
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Dey dindu nuffin.
Or looked at another way, 6% of the population are hopelessly retarded and should be prevented from breeding or teaching.
Surprised it’s that high. All they’re good for is to print/report tide tables and sunrise/sunset tables too. Even then I’d find them suspect.
We have a free press, but not a fair press.
Unbelievable that it’s that high. I used to watch the weather reports on tv and now even they are all about hollyweird and entertainment with as little weather as possible.
Journalists?
This is succinct, has good content, and is well-written. There are good examples. But they are just the tipi-tip of the vast iceberg. I liked this paragraph:
“Speaking of Redford, his 2015 film, curiously titled “Truth,” whitewashes the infamous RatherGate scandal in which CBS News’ Dan Rather tried to pass off forged documents critical of President George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard in the early seventies as authentic, and get him defeated for re-election in 2004. The press will go all out to destroy a conservative Republican president, but a liberal Democrat like Barack Obama gets helped out of his Benghazi scandal by CNN’s moderator in the second presidential debate in 2012.
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