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Commentary: The unbearable smugness of the press
The mood in the Washington press corps is bleak, and deservedly so. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that, with a few exceptions, we were all tacitly or explicitly #WithHer, which has led to a certain anguish in the face of Donald Trump’s victory. More than that and more importantly, we also missed the story, after having spent months mocking the people who had a better sense of what was going on. This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness. Had Hillary Clinton won, there’s be a...
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"fewer than one-in-three Americans trust the press,",,,,,,,,,, A lot fewer to my reckoning.
When I was younger the "creed of journalism" was "objectivity", since, it has become "subjectivity", and me thinks we all know what opinions are like ;-)...Much less having them crammed down your throat.
And so it goes on,
in my intermittent perusals, CNN has already started afresh,
interviewing/urging "dignitaries" (and or their representatives) of the Dem and Ind Party(s) for the next possible candidate to support.
Maybe so. Maybe it only seems that way if you can’t tell them apart. If talking heads are jabbering at you about Rep. Ellison and Gov. Dean, and you don’t have the first idea who those people are, you might think they’re just the next ranks of bobbleheads somebody’s about to flick. The thing is, though, they represent very different hypothetical futures. Well, not Dean. He’s bought and paid for, so he’s more or less the same future that Clinton represented. It’s a shame, too. You might’ve loved his policies once-upon-a-time if you’d known about them. Property taxes don’t pay themselves, though, I guess. Ellison, on the other hand, is a comer.