When will MSNBC and CNN stop reporting on the tired old unproven “Russia Hacked The 2016 Election” meme and spotlight real issues – the imminent demise of Net Neutrality, the grotesque “Republican tax cut” plan, ongoing geoengineering of our skies, to name but 3 – impacting all of us?
Here’s the Columbia Journalism Review on “Journalism’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week,” sources included.
As the Trump Wrecking Ball continues its destruction, the Trumpocrats are shellacking the Democrats top to bottom – even on the hot button issue of sexual harassment. Witness Al Franken, Garrison Keillor, Matt Later, Charlie Rose, etc – “good liberals” all (whatever THAT means) now completely shamed and discredited, while Trump and his Ilk remain seemingly untouchable. And the more “fake news” promoted by the so-called “liberal” corporate commercial Deep State-massaged “news” networks, the more ammo the POTUS and his oligarchical cronies get to fire back.
What a mess.
Plan ‘V’ for a Free Vermont! Long live the Untied States.
SNIP to the CJR–>
The media today: Journalism’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
Last week began with analysis of one embarrassing correction by a major news outlet and ended with President Donald Trump on stage in Florida railing about “all the corrections the media has been making.” Trump’s verbal assaults on the press are nothing new, but after a three major mistakes in eight days on the Trump-Russia investigation, he had some new ammunition to work with.
First, a brief refresher on what went wrong:
With a president eager to paint the press as his enemy, and at least part of the nation ready to believe him, the stakes for getting the story right are high. Reporters make mistakes, of course, and when they do, they correct, explain, and move on. Three mistakes that all erred in the same direction—that is, the initial, incorrect reporting was worse for Trump than what actually happened—won’t help journalists regain the trust among Trump’s supporters, many of whom believe that the media is out to get him.
Any way you look at it, last week was a bad one for “the media” at large. The corrections, reflection, and at times over-the-top hand-wringing are all being adjudicated in the public eye, and it seems more people are paying more attention than ever before. Below, more on the reaction to a rough week for journalists.
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