Ping.
There’s a recent issue of a dvd set of the old time TV series Deadline. Described on the listing as “When reporters were heroes” and they risked their lives to face up to the criminals and corrupt politicians who threatened them for printing the facts.
Makes honest journalism sound as outdated as the Age of the Dinosaurs.
A couple of generations of liberal journalism school students, have been inspired by Woodward and Bernstein going after Nixon.
Nixon was taken down by the media in 1973-74, however, their resentment of Nixon went all the way back to when Nixon was on the “wrong” side of the Alger Hiss case in the late 1940s.
So I too, am not sure when this “golden age” of “responsible” journalism was. Was it in the lifetimes of any of us?