“...journalists used to have standards of evidence before they opened their pieholes.”
When was this magical era?
When was this magical era?
IMO journalism in the US began its downward slide in 1987, when the Fairness Doctrine was repealed. Once news outlets no longer had to present both sides of a given story, they split into left-wing echo chambers and right-wing echo chambers, so dedicated to pushing their respective narratives they twisted facts to fit their story rather than twisting the story to fit the facts.