My time machine is failing to start up. I cant go back to when there was a distinction between them. . . in fact, Im not sure my timedial settings go back that, even if it would start.
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My time machine is failing to start up. I cant go back to when there was a distinction between them. . . in fact, Im not sure my timedial settings go back that, even if it would start.Does it mean reporters suck or liberals suck.
The distinction (I didnt say, difference) is that an objective journalist works as a journalist and a liberal does not. A liberal can become objective by the simple expedient of putting on a reporter hat and rejecting the application of liberal as a label for his politics.The meaning of the two labels is otherwise the same, namely, simpatico with the consensus imposed by the journalism cartel. Break unrepentantly from that consensus, and a reporter becomes not a journalist, not objective. Break unrepentantly from that consensus, and a liberal" becomes a right wing extremist.
The journalism cartel organically self-assembled (due to the wire services generally and the AP in particular). The AP wire is a virtual meeting of the AP and its member newspapers. It has been ongoing since before the Civil War. And given that People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices (Adam Smith), a journalism cartel was and is the inevitable result.
Crises are good for journalism and for big government, and that is an explanation for the cartels socialist slant. Since the wire services are a Nineteenth Century solution to the Nineteenth/Twentieth Century problem of expensive telegraphy bandwidth, wire services have no legitimate raison d'être justifying their violation of AntiTrust law.