The underlying problem is that news then becomes a negotiation -- not a negotiation among discordant pictures of reality, as it always is, but an abject negotiation with a loud and bullying sliver of the audience.[He's speaking of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy here] News of great significance becomes not an honest attempt to reflect genuinely contradictory realities, but a daily bargaining session with an increasingly factionalized public, a corrupted process in which elements of the news reports become offerings -- payments really -- in a kind of intellectual extortion.We always knew the MSM wrote opinion pieces, not facts. Now they're finally admitting it (and defending it -- LOL!) And they wonder why no one loves them anymore.
Yes, but it's pretty significant that he's also talking specifically about US! Meaning -- FreeRepublic! Meaning he's admitting -- we're winning and they are losing.
Now you should EXPECT him to mis-characterize and de-legitimize our version of fact ("reality"). But he's acknowledging that the internet has bullied them away from acting as if they are the ONLY voice, the priesthood as it were, with the right to interpret such "reality".