The media has only themselves to blame for their situation.
They chose to stop reporting the news impartially.
Let ‘em wither on the vine!
> They chose to stop reporting the news impartially.
It’s an obvious problem that would be so easy for them to fix — but they won’t.
“Investigative” journalism spelled D-O-O-M for the reporter’s profession. Watergate was the hi-tide mark, and the waves have been receding ever since.
Man, they've even given up on literacy. In yesterday's "Daily Progress (guffaw!) of Charlottesville, the word "drug" was used as a perfect passive participle of the verb "to drag". "He was drug out of the house," (where "of the" is optional.)
They can't speak or write. They don't care to do research. They think impartiality is unattainable and truth non-existent.
A few weeks ago the headline and lead paragraphs of a story contradicted what was said a few paragraphs later. It's beyond a joke now.
This man took a good point and made it stupid. His example story of praise (the NYT troll story) could easily have been done by someone on their own.
But, he makes a mockery of a good point. We do need the old style media. We just need them to do what he claims they do — EDUCATE and inform. They currently do neither and that is why they are failing!
Exactly why they're in trouble.
Exactly. Would anyone but the Left miss the NYTimes? There are many news gathering groups nowadays, Cable, Satellite, Talk Radio et al which could give quicker news, some analysis , and blogs on both sides could provide their bias which people would finally know is biased: Right or Left. No one is fooled about blogs. All know Moveon is Left and Redstate is Right. That is how it should be. Meanwhile, many news media outlets still, still call themselves objective, like All the Times , Globes, Free Presses, yet we know they are lefties. End the media majority and both Left and Right would be correctly identified for all to see and respond to.