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Another reason we’re dumbed down from a journalists’s point of view. Some snippets follow:
When news doesn’t suit your politics-LINK
by Charles M. Madigan
Here is what I really think.
The problem conservative critics have with modern news media is the same problem conservative critics have always had with news media.
It’s not just that they despise liberals. They do. But I think the whole liberal thing is a ruse.
What they really dislike is journalism.
Truth may well be the first casualty of war in some quarters, but that doesn’t give reporters a deferment from searching for it. Some people just hate that. Any hint of criticism is viewed as treason.
For a lot of media critics on the right, this is big business.
“Those of you who dislike journalism, come to me! I, too, dislike journalism and I’m going to tell you, endlessly, exactly how much. Then, once you have gathered, I am going to sell you diet supplements and lots of other things because I am in show business and the bigger and more loyal my audience, the better.”
What the haters hate the most is journalism. They would live in a world where everything is wonderful, where the government does only good things, where no one keeps a casualty count, and where all the stories are as positive as a Reader’s Digest report on what’s so darned good about America.
What a wonderful, Orwellian place that would be.
