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American Journalism Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes

Post by Riddick » 08-21-2016 04:57 PM

Edited & Excerpted From Michael Goodwin's Article @ NYPost.com

Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.

The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand-in-hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.

The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America.

The largest broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — and major newspapers like The New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play. Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent.

Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang, suffers the daily beating that Trump does. The mad mullahs of Iran, who call America the Great Satan and vow to wipe Israel off the map, are treated gently by comparison.

By torching its remaining credibility in service of Clinton, the mainstream media’s reputations will likely never recover, nor will the standards. No future producer, editor, reporter or anchor can be expected to meet a test of fairness when that standard has been trashed in such willful and blatant fashion.

Liberal bias in journalism is often baked into the cake. The traditional ethos of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable leads to demands that government solve every problem. Favoring big government, then, becomes routine among most journalists, especially young ones.

Once considered the flagship of journalism, for the NY Times those days are gone. The Times now is so out of the closet as a Clinton shill that it is giving itself permission to violate any semblance of evenhandedness in its news pages as well as its opinion pages.

It’s pure bias, which the Times fancies itself an expert in detecting in others, but is blissfully tolerant of its own. And with the top political editor approving the one-sided coverage as necessary and deserving, prejudice is now official policy.

It’s a historic mistake and a complete break with the paper’s own traditions. Instead of dropping its standards, the Times should bend over backwards to enforce them, even while acknowledging that Trump is a rare breed. That’s the whole point of standards — they are designed to guide decisions not just in easy cases, but in all cases, to preserve trust.

The Times, of course, is not alone in becoming unhinged over Trump, but that’s also the point. It used to be unique because of its adherence to fairness.

Now its only standard is a double standard, one that it proudly ­confesses. Shame would be more appropriate.
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Re: American Journalism Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes

Post by Doka » 08-21-2016 08:08 PM

Excellent article! The damage is done the "Cool-Aid" drinkers are ready for the next "demand" and who knows what that will be?


I do wonder about the "cool-Aid" drinkers, I wonder if they the ever wake up? It could be so difficult to cope , I would think. The other day while visiting with a few friends and listening to them, someone asked me what I thought, so I said the 1st thing that came to my mind(not always wise), I said that I was grateful "I didn't have TV", most where just perplexed, one gave me such a hateful look, it took me by surprise, since it was the most "saintly" of the bunch. It just peaked my curiosity , I did not ask ,I wanted no battle.
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Post by fos » 08-22-2016 06:47 PM

At least I'm not the only one that considers cable TV a total waste with VERY few exceptions.

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Post by Cherry Kelly » 08-23-2016 11:06 AM

When the presidents and senior correspondents in the channels have immediate relatives working in DC (WH group) what can you expect?

Journalism used to be the five W's -- as big corporations monies bought up the news outlets, it became more op ed type papers and pro Democrat and anti anything Republican. Just look at front page articles even on local type city newspapers. Once in a while you will actually see local news, but even it is usually slanted.

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