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Michael Goodwin is a man who spent 10 years as a reporter for the NY Times, was Executive Editor of the NY Daily News and won a Pulitzer Prize as Editorial Page Editor for their successful campaign to rescue the legendary Apollo Theatre from mismanagement.
When a man with that background and experience calls the MSM out for it's blatant bias and disreguard for fairness, it means something and is difficult for anyone to ignore.
American journalism is collapsing before our eyes | New York Post
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When a man with that background and experience calls the MSM out for it's blatant bias and disreguard for fairness, it means something and is difficult for anyone to ignore.
American journalism is collapsing before our eyes
By Michael Goodwin
August 21, 2016
5:40am
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The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand-in-hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.
The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America.
The largest broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — and major newspapers like The New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play. Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent.
Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang, suffers the daily beating that Trump does. The mad mullahs of Iran, who call America the Great Satan and vow to wipe Israel off the map, are treated gently by comparison.
By torching its remaining credibility in service of Clinton, the mainstream media’s reputations will likely never recover, nor will the standards. No future producer, editor, reporter or anchor can be expected to meet a test of fairness when that standard has been trashed in such willful and blatant fashion.
Liberal bias in journalism is often baked into the cake. The traditional ethos of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable leads to demands that government solve every problem. Favoring big government, then, becomes routine among most journalists, especially young ones.
I know because I was one of them. I started at the Times while the Vietnam War and civil-rights movement raged, and was full of certainty about right and wrong.
American journalism is collapsing before our eyes | New York Post
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