Do ya think these guys really hate this much, or do you think it is more of an experiment to see how much power they have to influence an election?
I wish that I could be paid so well to be so stupid!!!!!!
IMHO you can explain the "anti Americanism" of journalism quite well as the natural result of being in a business which doesn't do anything and therefore has a need to promote talk over action. That is easy to do by simply second guessing people who actually do stuff; hindsight will always show that they could have done better, cheaper.IMHO that explains why journalism is so critical not only of capitalism which provides our food, clothing, shelter, and fuel but of the military and the police which are the sine qua non of government. The only people whom journalism does not second guess are people who are fellow travelers with journalism in the sense that they also mercilessly criticize and second guess those whose claim to significance is that they get necessary things done. Plaintiff lawyers and labor unions, of course, but also leftist politicians and intellectuals.
Journalists call other journalists "objective," and call journalism's fellow travelers other positive names such as "liberal," "progressive," "moderate," and so forth. Any fellow traveler of journalism can become "objective" by the simple expedient of getting a job as a journalist.
The answer to your question is that journalists positively lust for influence.
I think both.
Their hate is what drives them.
I read somewhere that one of the Ceasars while traveling through a small village of mud huts said to one of his officers that he would rather be number one in this small village, than to be number two in all of Rome.
I used to think it was the hate, but I have come to believe that the media's lust for power is so overwhelming that they would actually reduce the country to mud huts in order to regain their lost power.