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Journalism is Dead. Long Live the Media! By Victor Davis Hanson
« on: May 13, 2019, 01:43:03 pm »
Journalism is Dead. Long Live the Media!
By Victor Davis Hanson| May 12th, 2019

There still exists a physical media in the sense of airing current events. But it is not journalism as we once understood the disinterested reporting of the news. Journalism is now dead. The media lives on.

Reporters today believe that their coverage serves higher agendas of social justice, identity politics, “equality” and diversity. To the degree a news account is expanded or ignored, praised or blasted, depends on its supposed utility to the effort to fundamentally transform the country into something unlike its founding.

At the recent third president-less White House Correspondents’ Dinner, passive-aggressive journalists whined that they were victims, standing on the barricades against the all-powerful, all-evil—and all absent—Donald Trump. If the attempt was to return professionalism to the evening and eschew the pathological celebrity obsessions of the past, the result was only more confirmation of the self-referential and narcissistic culture of the Washington press corps.

Why should we believe reporters suddenly worried about ethics, and free inquiry and speech?

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Re: Journalism is Dead. Long Live the Media! By Victor Davis Hanson
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2019, 01:48:47 pm »
I'm glad Mr. Hanson noticed!  I've been saying the same for years now.
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Re: Journalism is Dead. Long Live the Media! By Victor Davis Hanson
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2019, 02:00:57 pm »
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Re: Journalism is Dead. Long Live the Media! By Victor Davis Hanson
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2019, 03:47:09 pm »
I wish I could agree with the last sentence of the article:

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The people finally are tiring of their bias, their incompetence and their arrogance—and are finally beginning to ignore most of what they say and write.

...but I don't.  The sheep may stop believing the radical leftist media, but that doesn't mean they'll believe any of us.
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Re: Journalism is Dead. Long Live the Media! By Victor Davis Hanson
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2019, 05:15:28 pm »
One thing he really nails -- and that is often ignored by those that defend the media - is how they fail to report so many facts necessary to put actions in their proper context.  It's misrepresentation by omission.

It's like if you started telling the story of World War II on June 6, 1944.  If you omit everything that came before that date, the Allies would look to be the invaders attacking peaceful, defensive-minded German troops who were just helping an ally defend itself from Anglo-Saxon imperialism.
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