It took a while for it to sink in, but now I get it. There is no real “news” anymore. When I was a kid, the news was a thing. On TV and in the “newspapers” reporters researched stories, and wrote down quotes. There was nobility in it. Reporters and their editors were arbiters of the factual. A random claim about the Government of Mexico “sending its worst” could not get into the “news” unless it was checked and double checked against what was “true” and “accurate.” If it was found to be inaccurate or false it would not run, or if it did run, it did so as part of a story about a claim that is out of touch with reality.
We don’t have that anymore. We have Fox News, which is openly bias, but that isn’t the worst of it. An openly biased “news” source can be discounted and ignored. They’ve had that in England forever, and nobody expects newspapers to be objective.
No. It isn’t about objectivity, it is that the news has simply quit. We now have have TV and Newspaper “news” that has thrown in the towel on begin arbiters of accuracy. There is no forth estate to check Trump’s (or Huckabee’s, or anyone’s) statements against what is real. They’ve admitted that they don’t consider that their role anymore. The forth estate is simply gone. Vanished from the ecosystem like a failed species. What will take its place? What will filled the void? Apparently, complete bullshit. Bought wholesale and sold retail.
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