This is the state of modern journalism. Any wonder most newspapers are circling the drain?
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This is the state of modern journalism. Any wonder most newspapers are circling the drain?
Newspapers around the country are in trouble. None more so than The Virginian-Pilot and the much smaller paper that swallowed it, The Daily Press in Newport News.
Unlike the quivering pantywaists running The New York Times, the WSJ editors struck back.
Bari Weiss’s savage letter to publisher A. G. Sulzberger accused The New York Times of creating a hostile work environment where conservative voices are stifled and subject to mockery.
These are not journalists, they are social provocateurs on a mission that has nothing to do with informing the public.
When I was a reporter, I would have been fired for posting something like that. It would have constituted a journalistic high crime, like plagiarism.
If you want to know what’s wrong with newspapers, why they sometimes run with rumors and print half-baked truths, it’s because the adults have left the building.
Every single journalist I know has a story about a freak who badgered, stalked, harassed or threatened him or her. Most never bothered to tell a superior, let alone law enforcement.
As a writer who spent her entire adult life as a journalist, this study confirms a terrible truth: The industry I loved and labored in is failing.
It’s clear that nothing would make today’s press corps happier than seeing the current First Couple miserable.
They’re practically begging Melania to bolt.