I suppose I would be perfectly content to have an array of “news” organizations, batting around yesterday’s events, spinning furiously to fit their political construct and editorializing on every issue.
It wouldn’t be all that different from what we have been receiving from the deadwood media, the alphabet networks and their brethren in academia and Hollywood for 40 years, anyway.
However, their propagandizing knows no boundaries. This “boys will be boys” and “your side does it too” moral equivocation is a dog that simply won’t hunt.
The intentional misleading of the public, glaring errors of omission and commission, forging documents, faking photographs,…and the like, these are not “editorializing” or “slanting of opinions”…this is the 40 year long corruption of a public trust.
Again, I would be fine with a fair recitation of the facts, in which all sides can give their worldview interpretation and spin.
However, when the facts are sullied, when the facts are kept hidden, when the facts are fabricated out of whole cloth, when the facts are bastardized to fit leftist politics, …then the duty to inform becomes subverted by the desire to convert, by any means necessary.
Pointing at an historic anecdote about how this was done in 1930, or 1772 is no more persuasive than pointing at how well plantations ran during those years. Perhaps they were successful, but it doesn’t make it right.
