[New Jersey Realist]

Lib journalists and reporters always deny political bias yet they don’t question the many flaws in Obama that the press failed to look into. They even had a president that used the Oval Office as a sex room. Press could give a hoot.

[KingLudd]

Press COULDN’T give a hoot.

[neverevergiveup]

When people in the media started to become celebrities, journalism became progressively worse. It now selects for people driven by ego who want to ‘change the world’, not report accurately on it. From those I've spoken to in the media, coming up the ranks is very cut-throat - particularly in televised media. It's a reasonable assumption that a lot of those who get to major markets and national media jobs are among the most cut-throat and egotistical. I'm sure they aren't all that way, and I don't like painting with a broad brush, but time and again we see this kind of egotism in the media.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Lib journalists and reporters always deny ^ied political bias yet they don’t question the many flaws in Obama that the press failed to look into. They even had a president that used the Oval Office as a sex room. Press could give a hoot.

Journalists know (“If it bleeds, it leads”) that they are negative. Thus, for a journalist to claim objectivity is tantamount to claiming that “negativity is objectivity.” There is one small problem with such a claim; “the conceit that negativity is objectivity” is quite workable as definition of cynicism.

Journalism is cynical about society. But as Thomas Paine makes clear in the first paragraphs of Common Sense, “government" is not a synonym for “society.” "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . .” Any criticism of society will function as an occasion for a “there oughta be a law” response. So skepticism about society is inversely proportional to skepticism about government.

An American conservative is skeptical enough about society to believe in the necessity of some government, but is skeptical about government as well, and wants it strictly limited. That is a middle ground, temperate position. Socialism, precisely as “objective” journalism, is cynical about society and naive about government.

Journalists have, however, lightened up on claiming objectivity since the advent of Donald Trump as a Republican leader. They are frothing at the mouth too much to maintain the imposture.