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Not Easily Impressed

“journalism as fourth estate, truth to power, informing the public, valuing free speech”. I’m sorry, but I fail to see why the expectation of any and all of these things by the media is too much to ask. But I’m in my 50s so I grew up in an era of serious and unwavering news reporting.

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Ryan Carson

Oh yes, the salad days of Judith Miller.

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Democracy Matters

No, the honest days of Walter Cronkite.

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Ryan Carson

Individual journalists aside, Chomsky wasn’t bullshitting when he wrote Manufacturing Consent. He was describing a very real phenomenon. Today’s sycophants may be a degree worse, but let’s not let that cloud our memory of what the corporate media has always been about.

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Blake Mitchell

It’s several significant degrees worse now.

S. Grisham

Bezos didn’t own the Washington Post. There was less deleterious consolidation all around. Fox News was founded in 1996 (I was 28, now 58), at the very start of widespread internet. It wasn’t ideal, and news media *really* should have been re-regulated post-Reagan, but it was better than it is now.

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joannerochester

A fuckton better than now. Independently run, ad-funded media, not billionaire owned outlets who are told to spout lies.

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Three👁️Eyed👁️Devil👁️

While there was an age where things were better, I think it’s important to note that before that it was worse in pretty much the same way it is today. Media being owned by a small number of super rich people is the historical norm, an independent industry was a hard fought exception.

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Not Easily Impressed

I hear you and agree to an extent, however I personally don't remember a time when major US media consistently failed across the board to report honestly on a particular individual for fear of being sued or having their broadcast licences threatened with revocation by the FCC.