“Imho, journalism died circa 2008.”
It died long before that ... goes back at least to the mid 70s and the constant misreporting of the war in Nam as well as the yellow journalism of the Washington State Fish wars which only reported one side of the battles.
Rock Hudson was gay in the mid 70s - but he wasn't out of the closet.
This is the year that the Media came fully out of the closet. We've made fun of their obvious bias for years on FR, as you both know - but they were able to claim the thin veneer of "objectivity".
They're not going to be able to run back across the line they've crossed this time.
“It died long before that ... goes back at least to the mid 70s and the constant misreporting of the war in Nam as well as the yellow journalism of the Washington State Fish wars which only reported one side of the battles.”
It was in it’s death throes at least as far back as William Randolph Hearst in the early 20th century. According to Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917:
“In war, truth is the first casualty.”
And Hearst certainly lived by that creed. But he also said this, which could well have been written today:
“Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.”
And before that in trashing Senator Joe McCarthy who was exposing the commies in the State Department and other government agencies
1968 and “Uncle Red” Walter Cronkite’s reporting on the Tet Offensive would be a good arguable starting point.
It died the night uncle Walter gave the go ahead on national TV during TET.