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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No one trusts state media bc it solely serves the interests of the oligarchs, and it’s super obvious, even some liberals can see it. Drunpf defending himself against these propagandist isn’t what ruined their credibility, perhaps even a tiny bit of introspection would help. They literally pushed qanon level Russia conspiracies for two years, shits wild.
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