Thank you for spelling out the truth. It would be helpful if you could provide email addresses for some of the reporters who are spewing this nonsense so we can reach them and voice our concerns.
Thank you for the education via your incisive commentary and extremely sharp memory. Why "premium" journalists cannot do this is worthy of being called out repeatedly. Many thanks for doing so.
I disagree. Journalists should always, always, always bring up the past bad deeds of present bad actors. Always remember, never forget, never let their readers forget that this guy lied in front of Congress; this woman doesn’t believe in democracy; this guy was convicted of a felony and later pardoned by this abomination when he was President.
My father once told me that the Chicago Sun-Times had a stock photo of Colonel Cyrus McCormick, the owner of the Chicago Tribune, that they would use whenever McCormick, a notorious right wing hater, was in the news. It was an embarrassing photo of the illustrious Colonel looking particularly stupid as he tried to bring his lips to his soup spoon. It didn’t matter what the story was, it could have been a society page story about his daughter’s engagement to some weak chinned scion of another blue blood family, they always used that picture. And it stuck. Maggie Haberman - who really ought to know better - should have given her readers the whole story about the felon in question.
The journalistic malpractice of most MSM is appalling. It's how we got a grifter with dictatorship ambitions in The White House in 2016, and it just keeps getting worse. I would love to see a return to responsible journalism, but I wonder if that's even possible at this point.
I'm a frequent Substack writer on Robert Hubble's, Jessica Craven's, Simon Rosenberg's and Joyce Vance's newsletters focus on the anti-Biden bias in the MSM beginning with the NYTimes.
I'm very interested in talk with you about mounting a campaign to pressure the daily news outlets to do their civic duty and publish more articles describing the outstanding benefits the Biden administration has delivered to the American people both domestically and globally.
In 2020, IMO, Biden won by being the antidote to Trumpist.
In 2024 Biden has earned the right to reelection based on his record. And a bigger margin of victory than 7 million votes.
Please let me know if Stop The Presses might be interested in being a platform for this effort.
I agree with everything you say here. I even like the idea of footnotes. Please let us know how you think we can help raise the issue with more people.
I suspect that there are several parts to this. The term 'journalist' is the point where I shall begin. It is, in my opinion, wrongly used to describe someone whose role is to 'report the news'. Reporters are entitled as all of us, to have an opinion. But what they report should be nothing more nor less than the facts. This 'right wing/left wing' crap is what creates the division in the first place.
And Editors (of Media, at least) are every bit as much to blame for this as anyone. Along with Media Owners whose focus on 'making a profit' far too often totally overrides the moral obligation to publish the truth. In short, they are indulging in propagandism, not reporting (and to be honest not even journalism except insofar as the term relates to 'keeping records').
News Media in all its forms should be the modern equivalent of "The Town Crier" whose job it was to keep the citizens informed, not a platform from which details of events are twisted out or abandoned just because the particular 'rags' owners or editors (or the reporters themselves) do not like the truth of the events for whatever reason. Dishonesty begets dishonesty: it takes years to build a good reputation, and minutes to get rid of it. I spent most of my working life dealing with people, and the most disarming thing that anyone can do in sales (and reporting is such a role) is to tell the truth. People may not like what one says to them (at the time) but if it is the truth they will come back to one because it is the truth.
Making mistakes is human, atoning for them when the mistakes are pointed out is honesty. Continuing to perpetuate them because of the lack of moral fibre needed to be honest is the domain of cowards and their ilk. People who indulge in that kind of cowardice should literally be Publicly Tarred & Feathered.
How and why are irresponsible “journalists” allowed to continue “reporting”. If a large number of responsible and ethical journalists called them out collectively and continually it seems to me their credibility and employability will erode quickly.
If journalists and pundits used footnotes to list the heinous things Trump supporters have done, they’d end up with an article that was just footnotes.
Right on the mark as always! Hypocrisy is the Republicans calling card.
It's all about access journalism. Republicans won't talk to journalists who remind the public that the Republican party has gone full fascist.
Thank you for spelling out the truth. It would be helpful if you could provide email addresses for some of the reporters who are spewing this nonsense so we can reach them and voice our concerns.
Thank you for the education via your incisive commentary and extremely sharp memory. Why "premium" journalists cannot do this is worthy of being called out repeatedly. Many thanks for doing so.
I disagree. Journalists should always, always, always bring up the past bad deeds of present bad actors. Always remember, never forget, never let their readers forget that this guy lied in front of Congress; this woman doesn’t believe in democracy; this guy was convicted of a felony and later pardoned by this abomination when he was President.
My father once told me that the Chicago Sun-Times had a stock photo of Colonel Cyrus McCormick, the owner of the Chicago Tribune, that they would use whenever McCormick, a notorious right wing hater, was in the news. It was an embarrassing photo of the illustrious Colonel looking particularly stupid as he tried to bring his lips to his soup spoon. It didn’t matter what the story was, it could have been a society page story about his daughter’s engagement to some weak chinned scion of another blue blood family, they always used that picture. And it stuck. Maggie Haberman - who really ought to know better - should have given her readers the whole story about the felon in question.
The journalistic malpractice of most MSM is appalling. It's how we got a grifter with dictatorship ambitions in The White House in 2016, and it just keeps getting worse. I would love to see a return to responsible journalism, but I wonder if that's even possible at this point.
To Mark Jacob,
I'm a frequent Substack writer on Robert Hubble's, Jessica Craven's, Simon Rosenberg's and Joyce Vance's newsletters focus on the anti-Biden bias in the MSM beginning with the NYTimes.
I'm very interested in talk with you about mounting a campaign to pressure the daily news outlets to do their civic duty and publish more articles describing the outstanding benefits the Biden administration has delivered to the American people both domestically and globally.
In 2020, IMO, Biden won by being the antidote to Trumpist.
In 2024 Biden has earned the right to reelection based on his record. And a bigger margin of victory than 7 million votes.
Please let me know if Stop The Presses might be interested in being a platform for this effort.
You can reach me by email at:
weingrodm@gmail.com.
Tks
Merrill Weingrod
I agree with everything you say here. I even like the idea of footnotes. Please let us know how you think we can help raise the issue with more people.
I suspect that there are several parts to this. The term 'journalist' is the point where I shall begin. It is, in my opinion, wrongly used to describe someone whose role is to 'report the news'. Reporters are entitled as all of us, to have an opinion. But what they report should be nothing more nor less than the facts. This 'right wing/left wing' crap is what creates the division in the first place.
And Editors (of Media, at least) are every bit as much to blame for this as anyone. Along with Media Owners whose focus on 'making a profit' far too often totally overrides the moral obligation to publish the truth. In short, they are indulging in propagandism, not reporting (and to be honest not even journalism except insofar as the term relates to 'keeping records').
News Media in all its forms should be the modern equivalent of "The Town Crier" whose job it was to keep the citizens informed, not a platform from which details of events are twisted out or abandoned just because the particular 'rags' owners or editors (or the reporters themselves) do not like the truth of the events for whatever reason. Dishonesty begets dishonesty: it takes years to build a good reputation, and minutes to get rid of it. I spent most of my working life dealing with people, and the most disarming thing that anyone can do in sales (and reporting is such a role) is to tell the truth. People may not like what one says to them (at the time) but if it is the truth they will come back to one because it is the truth.
Making mistakes is human, atoning for them when the mistakes are pointed out is honesty. Continuing to perpetuate them because of the lack of moral fibre needed to be honest is the domain of cowards and their ilk. People who indulge in that kind of cowardice should literally be Publicly Tarred & Feathered.
I hope Joe Biden invokes the insurrection act and with Marshal Law rounds up every traitorous bastard (and bitch) for deportation.
How and why are irresponsible “journalists” allowed to continue “reporting”. If a large number of responsible and ethical journalists called them out collectively and continually it seems to me their credibility and employability will erode quickly.
If journalists and pundits used footnotes to list the heinous things Trump supporters have done, they’d end up with an article that was just footnotes.
Touché!
As someone with a daughter newly working in journalism, I am grateful for your wisdom and pragmatism. Also your sense of humor.