[neverevergiveup]

The news media is populated with a bunch of boomers and generation X’ers who are driven by their egos and fantasy that they are among the most important people on the planet - determining the direction of history. Make no mistake. This is their major motivation, by far, and is why they hate Trump. Trump treats them as what they are, people who are supposed to investigate facts and report them without bias - and he calls them out because they've long ago abandoned this central part of their jobs. These are people who see themselves as great intellectuals, great progressives, part of history, moving with and among those who are going to change the world. Honestly.

They are in reality people with degrees in journalism, maybe English, or other liberal arts major, with the very occasional law school graduate. How and why they ever got to the point at which they think they are smarter and more informed than the rest of us, and that they are qualified to opine on just about everything, is a mystery. Clearly, they are not qualified. They're not even doing their designated jobs correctly, let alone being the arbiters of wisdom. The reality is that you could easily take a group of freshman and sophomores from most community colleges and replace them all.

I do have great respect for hard working journalists who seek truth, but they are now in the minority.

[Buckeye McFrog]

About four decades ago journalism schools made a shift from teaching the who-what-where-when-why of a story to teaching a Social Justice theory which states the journalist’s job is to go out and “change the world”.

[slumber1]

How and why they ever got to the point at which they think they are smarter and more informed than the rest of us, and that they are qualified to opine on just about everything, is a mystery.

I blame Woodward and Bernstein. Before Watergate the press considered themselves ink stained wretches, just working class stiffs. Afterward they became agents of change, seeing it as their duty to direct the course of the nation.