https://freerepublic.com/tag/jewishlies/ en-us Mon, 30 Jan 2017 05:40:43 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3519075/posts Should the mainstream media lead, to borrow a term from religion, a great awakening? Yes, in a sense, suggested longtime journalist Steven Waldman in a Thursday Washington Monthly piece. “Donald Trump and his campaign have pushed the idea that each of us has our own truth, or ‘alternative facts,’” wrote Waldman. “Suddenly I feel like journalists are the most religious people in America. I don’t mean that journalists are suddenly enamored with the supernatural, but rather that we’ve re-embraced the idea that there’s a thing called ‘truth’ — an absolute value that lives above and apart from the world of... NewsBusters https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3519075/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jan 2017 05:40:43 GMT