Political Neutrality Is What Made American Newspapers Great

The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 10, 2020 | John Steele Gordon

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Journalism school grad here (I know, I know).

Sorry to say, there was NEVER a time where the news media wasn't biased. Bias = angle, and angle is what attracts readers or viewers to a story.

What happened was the news media figured out how to sell non-bias to the public. There was never any truth to it; it was simply marketing.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Remember

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate?

I started that thread in ’01, soon after 9/11/01.

I kept adding things to it for a long time - years - and switched to others over time.

My latest efforts are at the end of the Abolish the Wire Services thread.