I wrote a column for @NewIndianXpress on how failure to hold accountable bad media actors complicit in the Iraq/WMD debacle -- such as @jonathanchait, @JeffreyGoldberg, and @davidfrum -- enabled them to perpetrate the Trump/Russia debacle years laterhttp://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/apr/15/how-the-us-media-failed-in-russiagate-1964457.html …
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I would also note that journalists have professional/social incentives to not criticize one another too harshly. These people are notoriously petty and remember any slight for years. One unkind word and your career prospects could be toast. That's why the whole system is screwed.
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Factors: - many fewer professional journalists, news outlets - commercialization of news (eg cable) - neo-liberal ideology now all-pervasive in professional classes - dumbing down of conservatives
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In any case, articles like yours are highly appreciated!
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They are all in the old game of agenda setting. Perhaps mutated into a bandwidth agenda setting hence the infinite sources available. But tied to a establishment induced agenda setting.
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Covington kids lawsuit is the game changer so far it is at half a billion $$ and targets just 2 of the propaganda outfits known as MSM It's in Kentucky so there is a good chance the plaintiff will win and due to appeals it may very well get to SCOTUS, if so doomsville for MSM
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They have an aura of integrity even though they shit it up constantly. They won't break that
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Well, that's your opinion.
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I know. The whole population more or less is implicated in the bad behavior that destroyed our political culture. So what is the model for rehabilitation? Postwar Germany? eh?
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Matt Taibbi’s piece in Rolling Stone was a good start in discussing the media’s misunderstanding of the Trump phenomenon from the get-go.
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