Regardless of your pick of the
unprecedented crowd of celebrities now running for president, I suspect you’ll
agree with me that the news media have failed most dishonorably to report on
the relevant public policy issues in this campaign season.
Instead, the media have almost
monolithically homed in on the gotcha moments and stayed focused on the gotcha
moments.
The media have glibly reported on the
most facile stump speeches and the most offensive ad hominem attacks and the
most despicably false statements, without injecting any leavening dose of
honesty and rebuke.
I have never believed that the news
media actually, effectively perform any of the “public watchdog” functions that
are so widely claimed by media moguls and their apologists.
The news media certainly aren’t doing
America any favors during this campaign.
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© Richard Carl Subber 2016 All rights reserved.
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