The fundamental facts of “liberalism” are:
- Whereas T. Roosevelt said, “the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . who does actually try to do the deeds,” socialists are cynical critics who insist that the credit belongs the them.
- Journalists perceive, rightly, that bad news sells, and “No news is good news” because good news “isn’t news.” Bad news is the journalist’s stock-in-trade. But . . .
- A laser-like focus on bad news is not “objectivity,” it is a bias. Journalism is inherently biased, because a negative bias enables journalists to make money.
- Journalists know that they are focused on the negative, and yet they insist that they are objective. But . . .
- Equating negativity with objectivity is a perfect definition of “cynicism.”
- ”The narrative” is that people are cynical about the work of producing goods or services are virtuous “public servants” or “objective journalists.”
I have a T-Shirt that says, “Atlas Shrugged - Now in non-fiction.”