I saw a flash of it right after the election - some real self-reflection on the part of a few of them. But it immediately disappeared and they went back to their usual ways. That is the doubling down they always do.
A good article but I don’t like the references to Trump’s opponent with the affectionate term “Hillary”. “Journalists” pretend that she’s a modern, self-made woman, but in reality Mrs. Bill Clinton got her power the old fashion way for women-by being married to a powerful man.
They’re not real journalists, in the way we used to have journalists. They are nothing more than mouthpieces for the DNC.
They’re not awful...they’re paid off traitors to the Republic.
The old National Review covered this with a special issue back during the Reagan years, but their warnings fell for the most part on deaf ears.
Bookmarked.
This article didn’t explain specifically why journalists are so awful. It only said that they operate in another world, but it didn’t explain why they operate in that world.
The short answer is that journalists are so awful because modern “objective” journalism was founded that way by Walter Lippmann, he even lays out his plan for manipulating people in his books.
Because we pretend they’re important. Most of the world journalism is primarily tabloid style and everybody accepts that’s how things are. They don’t consider journalists important so journalists don’t get to let anybody down.
"Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady -- except a newspaper can print a retraction."
-- Adlai Stevenson
Liberals think and act like out of control 7 year old children. Everything you need to know or understand about them comes from that observation.
They have always been terrible & partisan!
Go back and read old newspapers, then the political parties/factions sponsored their own newspapers. They were as biased for their particular side as biased can be!
I guess what’s different now is we have allowed the fiction to exist that they are some politically disinterested noble “literary knights” doing selfless good & righting the wrongs of the nation and the world. Another thing that’s different is the conservative media voice was largely (Until recently!) allowed to atrophy. This “abandoning the argument” has allowed one side to dominate and basically not only set the agenda but claim there is only one way to think, look at a problem and solve it!
This is slowly changing thanks to the Internet. That’s why the giving up of “US control” is so potentially dangerous.
Because they go to college and get journalism degrees.
Likely because “journalists” are hired almost exclusively out of “journalism schools”, places where they receive intense Marxist political indoctrination, but emerge being unable to execute grammar and spelling correctly.
I know a couple of guys who went to J-school. They regret the choice. Told me basically “unless you’re a blonde female with “D” cups, you ain’t getting hired when you graduate.”