Contrast this story with the story out now of a true journalist Laura Logan who has come out and said how biased reporters are.
I just don’t understand why there are not more Laura Logans out there. I mean you would think that the job of reporting would attract more people who are naturally curious and by nature the braver ones rise to the top because they dare to do reports where other reporters would fear to tread to get the real story. Instead we get a bunch of self congratulating elitist telling us what we should think.
The days of “Call Northside 777” are unfortunately behind us.
“you would think that the job of reporting would attract more people who are naturally curious and by nature the braver ones rise to the top”
Nah, modern journalism attracts manipulative narcissists who want to tell everyone else what to think.
“...I just don’t understand why there are not more Laura Logans out there. I mean you would think that the job of reporting would attract more people who are naturally curious and by nature the braver ones rise to the top because they dare to do reports where other reporters would fear to tread to get the real story. Instead we get a bunch of self congratulating elitist telling us what we should think...” [Old Teufel Hunden, post 3]
“Journalism” is not about the truth.
Contrary to the expectations of a lot of citizens, it never has been.
It has been about pushing a preconceived viewpoint - since before the beginning. People started up newspapers to plug a particular candidate or ideological line. Reporting news was incidental, except the extent to which it brought the candidate’s name or the party line to wider audience than before.
There was a period when reportage & publishing was (slightly) more accurate and less biased, but it was never the primary goal of newspapers nor other media. Publishers and broadcasters found out that their credibility would be enhanced if they claimed to be honest, truthful, and unbiased. So they made those claims but never made good on them.
Bad as that sounds, there is nothing in the country that cannot be made worse by Baby Boomers, in cooperation with the Progressive Left.
After World War Two, “journalism” began to become professionalized; journalism schools grew in number and size. Newspapers and TV news departments began demanding a degree - in contrast to “reporting,” which had been pretty much just another workaday job.
But the problems really took off when Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein came onto the scene. The twerps who entered J-school all wanted to be Woodward and Berstein; when asked why they were studying journalism, their responses changed dramatically: it became “I want to make a difference.” It used to be “I want to report the news.”