‘destroying journalism’
The only way to ever really restore journalism will be to fully and completely destroy the pushers of fake news — broadcast and print/internet/web — by discrediting them, their sources, their publications.
The pushers of fake news need to be reclassified as entertainment or something similar and any pretext of them being journalists needs to be removed — press passes, etc.
The recently reseating of CNN at a White House event was a tiny start. It signaled that CNN should no longer be considered a reliable news agency. The WH just didn’t go far enough. The WH should pull their ‘press credentials’ and kick them out of the WH.
Purveyors of fake news should be mandated to put warning labels at the top of their wares (articles/reports/videos, etc.). Sixty years ago, tv ‘news’ sources were required to label ‘commentary’ as such and separate from real ‘news’.
Actually, they weren’t doing that sixty years ago. They got a little better after Agnew’s speeches (1970). Howard K. Smith (ABC) closed every broadcast with:”That’s tonight’s news and a comment...” Eric Sevareid’s (CBS) commentary was always sharply distinguished from the news—including visually. He spoke in the dark into a big, old-fashioned microphone—like the radio man he was.
Like most liberals, Sevareid said nothing in his decades and decades of broadcasting that anybody remembers today. Or remembered five minutes after he said it.
Trump should require that all the White House Press Corps wear dunce caps to all briefings.
If they ask a reasonable and fair question they should be allowed to remove the cap for that day.
New day—new cap.
Train ‘em like dogs!