I'm not sure journalism has ever been better. It's always been a tool. Hell, the Fourth Estate was complicit in launching a coup along with the FBI against Nixon over the Watergate scandal which although a dirty affair was hardly atypical for politics then or now, it in retrospect certainly doesn't seem worth objectively removing a President over. In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote: In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism.
I guess I just prefer it if journalists are going to lie that they tell different lies and not the government's lies. An America with 100 different agendas where the people have a chance to sus out who is right and who is wrong and it is very clear that everything should be viewed with skepticism is better than an America where fools have access to a single official narrative and label in their mind anyone a moron who even questions it. Especially when it is coupled with the not so soft power of government like the ability to jail people long term without trail for an "insurrection," or demand that people use language that the media prior moralized.
I'm not sure journalism has ever been better. It's always been a tool. Hell, the Fourth Estate was complicit in launching a coup along with the FBI against Nixon over the Watergate scandal which although a dirty affair was hardly atypical for politics then or now, it in retrospect certainly doesn't seem worth objectively removing a President over. In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote: In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism.
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In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote:
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism.
In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote:
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism.