I think this also shows how bleak the journalistic landscape is as it has become an extension of the Democratic arm (except for Fox which is an extension of the GOP arm)...I wonder if the newspapers back in the 40s-60s were also completely biased or if they gave fair honest reporting of facts on all candidates during elections? I wish we…
I think this also shows how bleak the journalistic landscape is as it has become an extension of the Democratic arm (except for Fox which is an extension of the GOP arm)...I wonder if the newspapers back in the 40s-60s were also completely biased or if they gave fair honest reporting of facts on all candidates during elections? I wish we had unbiased reporting outside of Substack which doesn't reach the people in my sphere...thanks for what you do Mr. Kust.
Neither Ed Murrow nor Walter Cronkite were paragons of objective reporting.
Nor should we forget William Randolph Hearst's role in instigating the Spanish American War.
Yellow Journalism has been a feature of the American press since before the founding of the Republic.
What Murrow and Cronkite had, however, was an appreciation for the profession of journalism. It wasn't enough to cover a story, they had to represent the media itself well
We've lost that in the modern era. Even the New York Times no longer respects the "Rosenthal Rule" (named for Abe Rosenthal, managing editor and then executive editor of the New York Times from 1969-1986): "you can f*ck an elephant if you want to but if you do, you can't cover the circus."
Too much of the modern corporate media are graceless, artless, feckless overgrown adolescents who are more focused on getting a sound bite to post on social media than answers to important questions. There are a few (Catherine Herridge and Peter Doocy come to mind), but they are the exception rather than the rule.
Frankly, I'm no journalist. I'm somewhere between an historian, an economist, and a wandering seeker after metaphysical truth. I'm more analyst than I am investigator, more researcher than reporter. I just aspire to present my craft honestly and well.
I think this also shows how bleak the journalistic landscape is as it has become an extension of the Democratic arm (except for Fox which is an extension of the GOP arm)...I wonder if the newspapers back in the 40s-60s were also completely biased or if they gave fair honest reporting of facts on all candidates during elections? I wish we had unbiased reporting outside of Substack which doesn't reach the people in my sphere...thanks for what you do Mr. Kust.
Thank you for your kind words.
Neither Ed Murrow nor Walter Cronkite were paragons of objective reporting.
Nor should we forget William Randolph Hearst's role in instigating the Spanish American War.
Yellow Journalism has been a feature of the American press since before the founding of the Republic.
What Murrow and Cronkite had, however, was an appreciation for the profession of journalism. It wasn't enough to cover a story, they had to represent the media itself well
We've lost that in the modern era. Even the New York Times no longer respects the "Rosenthal Rule" (named for Abe Rosenthal, managing editor and then executive editor of the New York Times from 1969-1986): "you can f*ck an elephant if you want to but if you do, you can't cover the circus."
Too much of the modern corporate media are graceless, artless, feckless overgrown adolescents who are more focused on getting a sound bite to post on social media than answers to important questions. There are a few (Catherine Herridge and Peter Doocy come to mind), but they are the exception rather than the rule.
Frankly, I'm no journalist. I'm somewhere between an historian, an economist, and a wandering seeker after metaphysical truth. I'm more analyst than I am investigator, more researcher than reporter. I just aspire to present my craft honestly and well.