{"id":11819,"date":"2019-05-13T22:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T05:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11819"},"modified":"2019-05-13T22:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T05:58:42","slug":"journalism-is-dead-long-live-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/journalism-is-dead-long-live-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism is Dead\u2014Long Live the Media!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There still exists a physical media in the sense of airing current events. But it is not journalism as we once understood the disinterested reporting of the news. Journalism is now dead. The media lives on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reporters today believe that their coverage serves higher agendas of social justice, identity politics, \u201cequality,\u201d and diversity. To the degree a news account is expanded or ignored, praised or blasted, depends on its supposed utility to the effort to fundamentally transform the country into something unlike its founding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the recent third president-less White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, passive-aggressive journalists whined that they were victims, standing on the barricades against the all-powerful, all-evil\u2014and all absent\u2014Donald Trump.&nbsp;If the attempt was to return professionalism to the evening and eschew the pathological celebrity obsessions of the past, the result was only more confirmation of the self-referential and narcissistic culture of the Washington press corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why should we believe reporters suddenly worried about ethics, free inquiry, and speech?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/05\/12\/the-media-wounded\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There still exists a physical media in the sense of airing current events. But it is not journalism as we once understood the disinterested reporting of the news. Journalism is now dead. The media lives on. Reporters today believe that their coverage serves higher agendas of social justice, identity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1124,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-34D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12632,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-american-journalism-died\/","url_meta":{"origin":11819,"position":0},"title":"How American Journalism Died","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In\u00a02017, the liberal Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University found that 93 percent of CNN\u2019s coverage of the Trump administration was negative. 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