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Today’s newspaper business is unrecognizable from the one in which I was first employed 60 years ago this year.
The newspaper era I experienced as a reporter is as dead as the New York Times’ reputation for fairness and accuracy, much less publishing a paper containing “All the news that’s fit to print.”
At the rate it’s currently sputtering along, there is little doubt the industry will soon go the way of the 1940 four-door flathead six-cylinder DeSoto I drove in my high school days.
Gone are managing editors like the Tampa Tribune’s late Bob Hudson, who bellowed at me in a crowded newsroom: “Scott, I never want to see your opinion in another news article. If I do, it’ll be the last news article you’ll ever write for this newspaper.”
I never repeated that mistake. After a stint with a Gannett paper in upstate New York, I left the media and went into corporate communications, writing speeches, press releases, brochures, white papers and handling investor and media relations.
In those positions, I continued to maintain close contact with reporters and editors and observed as objective reporting was discarded, and the media dissolved into accomplices and propagandists.
With the inconsistent exception of the newsroom at the Wall Street Journal, what’s left of today’s print news outlets are all opinion, front-to-back. What remains of the newspaper industry is on life support. The media used journalism as a weapon, eventually turning it on themselves in a mass suicide.
For nearly ten years, national media outlets attempted to defeat and destroy Donald Trump. Today, he is stronger than he has ever been while public trust in the media has never been lower.
The media gulped down the Russia conspiracy Kool-Aid like religious zealots as they turned their outlets into hymnals for fanatical evangelistic anti-Trump congregations.
Today’s media don’t try to hide their bias; they flaunt it.
The print media not only outrageously distorts issues by what they cover, but also by what they don’t cover.
Where’s the coverage in the Washington Post, NY Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, LA Times, etc., of the massive Medicare, Social Security, COVID fraud in Minnesota, California, etc.? Their ineptitude or intentional avoidance and exclusion enabled a sharp 23-year-old kid, Nick Shirley, with a small camera and microphone to scoop them on one of the most significant stories of the decade. Where is Mr. Shirley’s Pulitzer Prize? When is the national media returning awards for their phony Russian collusion garbage?
Where’s the coverage of the killings and rapes of young women by illegals that were released from jail by sanctuary cities? Where’s the coverage of the successfully closed border? Where’s the coverage of why fed-up corporations are leaving crime-ridden and high-tax cities, closing their offices and heading to red states? Where is the media coverage of the IRS reports showing $47 billion and hundreds of company headquarters “walking out” of New York, with Florida, Texas, and North Carolina welcoming them?
Where’s the coverage of the lowest crime rates in Washington D.C’s history? It’s dwarfed by network cameras frantically filming algae in the recently renovated Reflecting Pool that has been damaged by vandals. The fact that D.C’s filthy graffiti-covered statues have been cleaned and fountains that haven’t worked in 50 years are flowing again is ignored.
Where’s the coverage of former DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s declassified 1,600 pages of secret community emails, etc., from the first months after the pandemic showing Dr. Anthony Fauci lied?
Today’s media is a disgrace, and the term ”journalistic ethics” has become an oxymoron.
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