Never could trust them but the last 5 years it got worse and now with social media had joined in. For a bit the people could post the truth on social media and you could form your own opinion because you could not trust that everything Facebook had isn’t all truth either. Trump wanted to remove certain privileges that social media enjoyed but now that went away when the dems knew they could use them and the owners are dems.
Ransom Stoddard: You're not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?
Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Just remember this:
Newspapers, magazines, TV news, web site news, etc.
do not exist to “tell you the news”.
They exist to “sell advertising”.
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Such as it ever was.
It got worse when the Messiah was selected, twice, as president.
They lost all pretenses of objectivity when Trump was elected.
There was an old Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode (The Werewolf) where Kolchak goes on a cruise and tells a fellow he’s a reporter. The passenger replies and says something along the lines of “Oh, the Fifth Column” and Kolchak responds, “No, the Fourth Estate”. I’d say the fellow passenger was right.
A major proponent of advocacy journalism is Margaret Sullivan currently of the Washington Post (previously the NYT and Buffalo News).
See Tagline.