[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Hillary lied about being under fire too. I guess the liberal press excused her because they have an ‘agreement’... The liberal press buys the lies of liberals... then they get to lie too.

T.R. famously said, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly . . .

But many say, “It is not the owner of a business who counts - not the man who works to a bottom line and keeps expenses down while improving quality and customer service. The credit belongs to the man who criticizes, condemns, and complains - the cynic who arbitrarily says, “You didn’t build that” even though any business will turn to dust in your hands within five years if not diligently managed by someone who is trying to improve it. This cynic class consists not only of “liberal” politicians but of academics, unionists, and - most of all - journalists.

Time was, as recently as the mid-to-late Nineteenth Century, when ideological competition between newspapers was taken for granted. The perspective of the printer was a prominent feature of any newspaper, and you would only subscribe to a paper if you were interested in that publisher’s perspective. The inevitable result of the 1844 introduction of the telegraph and the 1848 founding of the New York Associated Press (now simply the Associated Press) - the inevitable result of any and every wire service - is the decision of the journalists to go along and get along ideologically. “The wire” is a virtual meeting of all major journalism institutions, and Adam Smith’s prediction of the outcome of that proves prescient:

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices . . . - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

When the “people of the same trade” are journalists, they agree that critics such as journalists - and not TR’s “man in the arena" are the important ones.

[GOPJ]

The inevitable result of the 1844 introduction of the telegraph and the 1848 founding of the New York Associated Press (now simply the Associated Press) - the inevitable result of any and every wire service - is the decision of the journalists to go along and get along ideologically. “The wire” is a virtual meeting of all major journalism institutions...

I remember hearing something about UPI's bad choices allowing AP to become too strong - causing newspapers to be less 'diverse' - politically? Or maybe that was when AP started getting sloppy?

Anyhow, I've known ethical journalists... people in Theodore Roosevelt's arena - not everyone sells out.