LoneLaugher
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That's actually a part of this.The left-wing media is champing at the bit to be the new Woodward and Bernstein.
My first assignment on my first day in my first college class (Journalism 101, no shit) was to buy and read "All The President's Men". I've always thought that that book, as important to real journalism as it was, was dangerous in that it created a "journalist as celebrity" kind of mentality.
Add to that a media landscape that has increased in size (and competition) by a factor of about a zillion, and you have the potential for real distortions about what journalism is supposed to be.
And add to THAT, ask any young reporter/"objective journalist" what their job is. It used to be to fully & accurately as possible report what happened, given time or space constraints. Today, many of them will tell you it's to "find the truth". Well, when 85% of them have a specific political agenda, they'll often be starting with THEIR VERSION of the truth and working backwards, ignoring and avoiding information and details that do not support that version.
And here we are.
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All CNN, NYT, WP, NBC, CBS, ABC and NPR journalists work within a standard that requires honesty and integrity. Make shit up...get canned and blackballed. You know that. Why not say it? Too accurate?