10/ "We’re not at war; we’re at work" is genius. But its genius is incomplete. It doesn't speak to the problem @Acosta was getting at. If the press is the enemy, that crashes the whole premise of the White House press corps: that we're all trying to inform the American public.
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There's another shortcoming to "we're not at war, we're at work": It doesn't acknowledge the possibility that while we may still be at work, the ~nature~ of the work may have changed, i.e., it requires new techniques, as Jay often says.
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A small example: Only recently have media started to recognize that reporting on outrageous false claims can help spread them and give them credibility. That changes how you cover news.
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FWIW, I think a similar basic change should be to stop treating Trump and his administration as synonyms. It's always been taken for granted that what the president says and does is policy. That isn't the case this time.
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So the danger of "we're not at war, we're at work" is that it can also act as cover for an unthinking continuation of business-as-usual journalism in an era that requires new techniques and hard debates about what purposes different kinds of reporting serve.
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Thanks, Gideon.
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This is a good exchange, why I don’t log off here for good.
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I understand the questions that you and Jay are raising, but I also don’t accept the seeming characterization that journalists are blinkered and trudging forward without changing how the job is done to meet these challenges.
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"Good, solid journalism can change the world."Just as this is true so too is it true that an industry wrought with bias & corruption can lose its creditability Which is what has happen now & why the term
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