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Darryl Cooper spoke about this in an earlier episode of The Unraveling[1]. The thesis of the episode was something along the lines of "If you pull the thread be
by no-dr-onboard 4y ago
Darryl Cooper spoke about this in an earlier episode of The Unraveling[1]. The thesis of the episode was something along the lines of "If you pull the thread behind "honest journalism", you'll find that the US has been cultured to being told what to think since the days of Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite."
When we consider the current state of journalism we should check the presupposition that we ever had a "free and functional press". I can't remember a time, nor can I find evidence, that it ever truly existed without some sort of circumstantial asterisks polluting the results.
1. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9kZWZjb3J0aGV0aHJlYWQubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M/episode/NjAyZmUyNzItYzBlOS00MDM4LTg4ZmItMjFhY2Q0YTgwM2I3?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwj45Y-G6oL5AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9kZWZjb3J0aGV0aHJ...
- mythrwy 4y agoYes I agree. We didn't have a way to know before so there was an agreed up set of "facts" (which often were not upon closer inspection). The internet has laid waste to that scheme. But not sure the facts have gotten any more factual in sum.
- kevwil 4y agoWell said.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoWalter Cronkite came closer to "the truth" than modern "journalism" does. He wasn't perfect, he had his own narrative, but he believed in objectivity, and he tried to reach it. He may have failed, but by trying, he came closer to reaching it than the current generation. There was a managing editor of the New York Times. He knew that his reporters leaned somewhat left, so he steered the editorial slant of the paper somewhat right to balance. They literally put "He kept the paper straight" on his tombstone. Today the Times comes rather short of that standard.