"...Today, we live in an age of the proliferation of news.
All kinds of news.
Celebrity news, world news, real news, fake news.
Legacy media might not have a stranglehold over the news industry, but it has left a legacy of its own.
That legacy is one of propaganda, which is exactly what journalism in all its forms has become.
Pick a topic, any topic.Now look at the headlines and the attendant articles journalists have produced about an event.
What do you find?
Not a “tossed salad” of various perspectives but a “melting pot” with very little diversity.
Diversity is our strength?
Nope.
Not in the media.
Not anymore.
Repeat After Me
To choose a particularly egregious instance of alarmist journalism—#MeToo and the sexual misconduct allegations against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
To the thoughtful individual, the ambiguity of the case offered a near-limitless amount of interesting positions for which one could have advocated:
- Kavanaugh might have committed the alleged acts, but did not recall them;
- the accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, remembered the experience she related, but the memory itself was a confabulation;
- the supposed victim misook an action of Kavanaugh’s friend for that of Kavanaugh (Ed Whelan was the one brave soul to promote a unique theory along these lines, though he irresponsibly outed a classmate by name);
- the accuser actually projected her own marital problems on a fictional occurrence with a relatively little-known acquaintance (i.e. Kavanaugh),
- etc. etc. etc.….
Now compare this multiplicity of positions to those taken up by the creatures of the media, the journalists and pundits..."
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