A week of embarrassing media failures after 'Person of Year' accolades
By Larry O'Connor - The Washington Times - Thursday, December 20, 2018
Just one week after being named Time magazine’s “Persons of the Year,†a series of embarrassing missteps focus on the all-too fallible media industry and how their political biases color what they regard as truth.
Time used the grandiose title of “The Guardians†of the truth in describing a handful of journalists who were killed or jailed over the past year. The overheated language is designed to deliver a clear political message: “We journalists are the ones with a monopoly on the truth and we are in danger of being silenced by our critics you know, President Trump and his voters.â€
The problem with holding yourself up as the one guardian of the truth is that you look pretty darn bad when you’re colleagues are shown to be lying hypocrites. And that’s just what happened this week.
