Losing the Race Toward Irrelevance<\/p>\n
As Granny G recently pointed out, the lamestream media is becoming irrelevant, and it’s their own fault. Quite true. And while many Americans, especially those over fifty (sixty?) who grew up with the three alphabet networks as their primary news source, do seem to cling to this obsolete habit; those younger citizens increasingly do not. There are those of us who remember Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Huntley & Brinkley and Tom Brokaw.\u00a0 Mention these names to anyone under fifty and you’ll get a blank stare.<\/p>\n
Edward R. Murrow?\u00a0 There might be a few reading this that go to Google for a hint for him. And as our benevolent matriarch of this blog suggested, maybe most should let bygones be bygones.<\/p>\n
I’m not one of the most.<\/p>\n
While in journalism school our professors – and especially our dean \u2013 made it very clear that our job was to report the news accurately, corroborating facts, double checking descriptions, never including anonymous information unless it was verified, and then only using it as anonymous to protect the source. Opinions were fine \u2013 on the opinion pages. Never in a news story.\u00a0 A little favoritism was permitted in sports reporting. Never in political and hard news.<\/p>\n
Those news anchors listed above might have voted democrat, in fact I’m sure some, If not all, did.\u00a0 But you didn’t get the rabid worshiping of the leftists that you see today. An interesting historical tidbit that RWG mentioned is that Edward R. Murrow, he who covered the Blitz in London during WWII, was also instrumental in bringing the start of the Marxist movement to Columbia U. That was somehow missed in journalism school. But then most of such ideological history was missed in all levels of schooling I received. Marxists have been infiltrating our government since WWII.<\/p>\n
I was taught that the First Amendment to our Constitution was first for a reason. That our republic depended upon it for an educated and responsible citizenry. And we learned about the years of \u201cyellow journalism,\u201d the scandal sheets that were published even before the constitution was ratified. But those were known to be a biased source. That’s why they were published, and not regarded as a source of accurate news.<\/p>\n
Today’s lamestream media has sown the seeds of its own demise and is reaping the results before our eyes. I saw it starting from the inside. I was part of the TV news industry for a few years. I saw it becoming \u201csocially conscious\u201d before it spread to the rest of the country. I could complain, point out bias and hypocrisy. And be fired. So I left, as did a number of others I worked with.<\/p>\n
As for the current crop of \u201cjournalists,\u201d other than Fox News, they can go up in flames like Los Angeles has done.<\/p>\n
They lit their own fire.\u00a0 Let them burn.<\/p>\n
Ciao,<\/p>\n
The Snark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Losing the Race Toward Irrelevance As Granny G recently pointed out, the lamestream media is becoming irrelevant, and it’s their own fault. Quite true. And while many Americans, especially those over fifty (sixty?) who grew up with the three alphabet … Continue reading