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Title: The 2016 Election and the Demise of Journalistic Standards
Source: The New York Post
URL Source: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/2016 ... demise-journalistic-standards/
Published: Apr 20, 2017
Author: Michael Goodwin
Post Date: 2017-10-02 21:15:18 by farmfriend
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Comments: 1

I’ve been a journalist for a long time. Long enough to know that it wasn’t always like this. There was a time not so long ago when journalists were trusted and admired. We were generally seen as trying to report the news in a fair and straightforward manner. Today, all that has changed. For that, we can blame the 2016 election or, more accurately, how some news organizations chose to cover it. Among the many firsts, last year’s election gave us the gobsmacking revelation that most of the mainstream media puts both thumbs on the scale—that most of what you read, watch, and listen to is distorted by intentional bias and hostility. I have never seen anything like it. Not even close.
It’s not exactly breaking news that most journalists lean left. I used to do that myself. I grew up at The New York Times, so I’m familiar with the species. For most of the media, bias grew out of the social revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. Fueled by the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, the media jumped on the anti-authority bandwagon writ large. The deal was sealed with Watergate, when journalism was viewed as more trusted than government—and far more exciting and glamorous. Think Robert Redford in All the President’s Men. Ever since, young people became journalists because they wanted to be the next Woodward and Bernstein, find a Deep Throat, and bring down a president. Of course, most of them only wanted to bring down a Republican president. That’s because liberalism is baked into the journalism cake.
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#1. To: farmfriend (#0)
Until the 1960s and maybe the 1970s there were many independent newspapers and journalist reported the news in a fair and straightforward manner. However, since then all mainstream news is under the control and/or ownership of our masters; probably the international bankers that own the federal reserve who likely used their right to print (counterfiet) money to buy up all the media.

DWornock posted on 2017-10-02 22:26:18 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
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