Hell yea I remember “gravitas” - a word that hadn’t been used in print in DECADES popped in to every reporter’s mind at the same time.
It is a VERY WEIRD place to live when the media, which is more of a vocation than a profession, acts as if they have some claim to be allowed to run the country.
I don’t know what the media was like 240 years ago, and I wish to hell that I could channel the founders, but I strongly suspect that they NEVER behaved this way, at least least into the 20th century and it’s difficult to see how those people would give them the protections that allow them to do this crap - if the media was like it is today.
As I’ve said before, when I see/hear reports of media people being killed or going missing in other countries, I wonder to myself whether they are trying the same stunts over there, rather than legitimately reporting facts...
The press of 240 years ago was a noble thing to behold. The reporters hung around an event and made note of EVERY detail without judgment or bias. I’ve read accounts of tax protests during the pre-Revolution era that are profoundly more objective... and FAR more entertaining... than anything the modern media puts out.
In the rest of the world, the press will support the government and the interests of the people, or bad things will happen to them.
In this country, the press has been busy working AGAINST the interests of the people by failing to report leftist corruption and the mass importation of moslem terrorists that want to kill us by a criminal marxist regime.
The press has FORFEITED the right to access or protection and will now be treated like the domestic enemy they are.