Alternative title: The thirstiest auto-fellatio you'll read all year
The author is Louis Menand, a highly educated boomer liberal, a writer, an award winning journ*list who reported on the Cold War.
Indeed, he's seen it all. There's hardly anyone better positioned to write this article. There's hardly anyone left with the breadth and depth of his professional experience.
So why have people lost faith in journ*lism? Perhaps he'll write on the changing approach to journ*lism of the younger professionals. Perhaps he'll write on the thinly veiled activism often disguised as journ*lism. Perhaps he'll talk about cancel culture and social media and how this new invention has parasitized journ*lism.
But unfortunately for you, like many in his category, Drumpf completely and utterly broke him.
Obligatory Drumpf is literally Hitler article.
Let's see what he instead blames for the Inversion of the Trust Thermocline:
Number one: Drumpf of course no question about this.
Julian Assange. Was anything Wikileaks spread false? Who cares, he hurt Democrats and that's criminal.
The First Amendment is problematic.
Too many white men and lack of women and minorities.
The CIA is also responsible for mistrust in journ*lism
Richard Nixon campaigning against journ*lists? I mean frick it right, btw 1960s trust in the media was close to an all time high.
The plebians are just too dumb to understand.
Last but not least, journ*lists are too objective, they SHOULD have an agenda.
Yes I'm being flippant with some of these points, but Louis our dear friend legitimately and unironically made those last two point, straight up.
Thanks Drumpf, we're never going to trustworthy news, are we?
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As our resident glowie apologist, I'd like to address the bitching and moaning about the CIA.
Money to subsidize American college kids going to international student events, art exhibitions, etc. passed through the CIA. They didn't tell anyone what to say or do. Obviously the communists were paying their kids to go to these events and telling them exactly what to say and do. Like all the other shocking revelations of the 1960s, this was something the president had ordered them to do.
"CIA agents" every fricking time.
The horror. CIA interviews certain Americans returning from abroad and asks if they had any information they'd like to share. Does anybody think that Britain, France, Sweden, etc. doesn't do this? Why would this even be controversial? You want to see something dirty, look at how France set up MSF in the 1960s to smuggle weapons into Nigeria for them.
What the frick would the issue be with journ*lists other than the risk of them getting subverted to write propaganda? This f-slur doesn't want to tell you the real reason why they forced the CIA to stop talking to journos. It was so that the journos could operate in communist countries without being harassed by their security services. It was all about making their lives easier and more comfortable.
Then he goes on to say that the hippies rioting at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 would have been really popular if the media was just more biased in their favor.
Rightoids, when you believe all the shit you hear about how horrible the glowies were in the 1950s-1960s, remember who made it up. You're on the side of the communists, the queers with gonorrhea, the long-haired freaks, the potheads, the Grateful Dead fans.
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downvoted for glowie apologism
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I honestly have no idea what you're talking about but it sounds based.
I'm pretty sure you mean j-slur
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There's a lot of overlap.
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I’m no longer a glowie apologist after reading cia psychological operations in guerilla warfare, the manual given out to Nicaraguans.
So dumb bros
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Are you legit r-slurred? The "Westmoreland Manual" was a KGB forgery. This has been known for decades.
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Hmm, what's your take on Operation Condor and the frickery CIA orchestrated here in South America?
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Lol I’m talking about the one with cia stamped all over it that the department admitted to producing (it was totally just one random lone wolf thing though, isolated event)
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