Posted on 11/10/2016 5:48:05 AM PST by Hojczyk
Theres a place for opinionated journalism; in fact, its vital. But our causal, profession-wide smugness and protestations of superiority are making us unable to do it well.
Our theme now should be humility. We must become more impartial, not less so. We have to abandon our easy culture of tantrums and recrimination. We have to stop writing these know-it-all, 140-character sermons on social media and admit that, as a class, journalists have a shamefully limited understanding of the country we cover.
Whats worse, we dont make much of an effort to really understand, and with too few exceptions, treat the economic grievances of Middle America like theyre some sort of punchline. Sometimes quite literally so, such as when reporters tweet out a photo of racist-looking Trump supporters and jokingly suggest that they must be upset about free trade or low wages.
We have to fix this, and the broken reasoning behind it. Theres a fleeting fun to gang-ups and groupthink. But its not worth what we are losing in the process.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
A moment of clarity, it won’t last long. The press will be crawling all over Trump’s every move, even gesture, like hornets.
Those people don’t even scratch the surface of all the lying Presstitutes in this country. Gonna need a bigger picture.
Dear CBS “News,”
It’s going to be a very long time before I’m over your infamous “Just because we faked the evidence, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen” incident.
The recent collusion of members of the press with the DNC against both Bernie Sandars AND republican candidates doesn’t make me any more likely to reconsider my belief that the American media is the least bit trustworthy.
I have no problems with any media outlet opining, as long as it’s labeled as opinion. But I’ve found that rigged debates and biased reporting makes me distrust the mass media.
Mark
Youd think that Trumps victory the one we all discounted too far in advance would lead to a certain newfound humility in the political press. But of course thats not how it works. To us, speaking broadly, our diagnosis was still basically correct. The demons were just stronger than we realized.This is all a whitelash, you see. Trump voters are racist and sexist, so there must be more racists and sexists than we realized. Tuesday nights outcome was not a logic-driven rejection of a deeply flawed candidate named Clinton; no, it was a primal scream against fairness, equality, and progress. Let the new tantrums commence!
Trump's victory marks seismic shift in America Thats the fantasy, the idea that if we mock them enough, call them racist enough, theyll eventually shut up and get in line.
Journalists increasingly dont even believe in the possibility of reasoned disagreement, and as such ascribe cynical motives to those who think about things a different way.
Ping!
You're right. No one trusts these people any more... We're not even paying attention to their hate like we use to... MSM hate rants toward us are like the screeching of a step mother who hates us ... one who use to hurt us but now is just noise ... background noise. We've figured out the problem it's her - she's the problem - not us. That's how we feel about the haters in the press. They try hurt us - try too hard to demean us - and we've turned them off. I don't know anyone who trust them...
Bump
Great analogy. That’s exactly how it is. It’s amazing how we all just turned them off enmasse and now they’re going down so fast. It’s wonderful.
We not only ‘turn them off’ we invite friends in to see the wicket step-mother start screaming when we say we got an “A” on a math test... (watch her scream about our haircut or shoes...)
The press deserves what’s happening to them...
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