Al-Dura and the “Public Secret” of Middle East Journalism
David Thomson suggests The rational approach to today’s MSM journalists, educated within a cultural milieu of moral relativism and deconstructionism, is to assume they are lying until proven otherwise.
Maybe, but what proof could the MSM offer that might not fall into the “fake but accurate” category? The MSM has told us for decades that we could trust them, that they’re non-partisan unbiased purveyors of the truth. Sure, it might not be the entire truth but nothing important is left out of the narrative. They’ve demonstrated that they can’t be trusted (how many lives were needlessly lost because of their Katrina narrative?) and that they’re both biased and partisan. They’d be better off saying “we’re shills for every left-wing cause on the planet, including those we don’t know about”. Their business is trust and their business is failing because they can’t be trusted.
