{"id":12347,"date":"2020-05-05T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12347"},"modified":"2020-05-04T17:26:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T00:26:32","slug":"do-the-media-even-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/do-the-media-even-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Media Even Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we lived in a fair and just world, most of the current media would simply go away and try something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is not that reporters are human and therefore sometimes err. The rub is not even that they are poorly educated or rarely write well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also expect officials to leak one-sided stories and then the media to print them without edits. These are all things baked into the media cake and the public understands, even if it does not quite accept them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crisis instead is that they are now almost always wrong<\/em>, and predictably wrong<\/em> because they are lazy and biased\u2014and they deny it to the point of self-delusion. The result is that, for all practical purposes, journalists no longer exist for the general public as sources of news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than half the country now assumes that the New York Times<\/em>, Washington Post<\/em>, NPR, the networks, and the cable news outlets are culpable not of merely failing<\/em> to tell the truth but of being incapable<\/em> of telling the truth. Even if they wished to, or had the skills to report empirically and dispassionately, they simply cannot, given their investments in the progressive agenda, and its investments in them. In other words, they are owned\u2014creatures of that agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowhere has the media nadir been clearer than in the case of ol\u2019 Joe Biden from Scranton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are the usual suspects for his periodic dips: his\u00a0cul de sac\u00a0Twitter wars over Joe Biden, obsessing over the utter dreariness of Joe Scarborough\u2019s past irrelevant life, the constant effects of a\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1585,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-our-media-taught-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":12347,"position":5},"title":"What Our Media Taught Me","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media I\u2019ve been over here in Europe for about ten days, getting a different perspective on our illustrious media and how it is handling the various Obama \u201ctroubles.\u201d Perspective and distance are sometime valuable. 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