CBoldt, you and Ciaphus Cain appear to agree more than you actually disagree.
His (assuming he’s a “he”) point is that in order to do the job right, it absolutely MUST be a “sacred trust”. But the media today - especially TV - treats their profession as an extension of politics, rather than a presentation of truth.
Just my opinion, of course.
I doubt it, unless he was being sarcastic.
-- in order to do the job right, it absolutely MUST be a "sacred trust". But the media today - especially TV - treats their profession as an extension of politics --
My point of view is that this "do the job right" condition is a fiction, a self-serving fiction perpetrated by the press. The press wants you to trust it, needs you to trust it, in order to have power over your beliefs. Of course it claims to be trustworthy. But it isn't, never was and never will be. People should reject the ideal, and hold the press to prove the accuracy of every single statement it makes.
Ciaphus Cain thinks that ideally (and I emphasize the word "ideally"), the press should be granted at least a presumption of truth. My point of view is the opposite. Ideally, the press gets a presumption of false. The onus to getting to the truth of the matter properly lies with the individual. If the question is important, get a second opinion.