Equally demonstrative of journalism's demise has been the corporate domestication of reporters and their lamentable transformation from an unruly gang of rebellious muckrakers and misfits who naturally despised the status quo into a docile pack of housebroken and primped-up poodles all desperate to service the "Ruling class." You don't get anything as noxious as a JournoList to eat through the body politic like a parasite through its host without first initiating a widespread campaign to spay and neuter those journalists in the profession packing cojones as well as brains.
At one time in America, newsrooms were headed by serious editors who knew that the best reporters are borderline sociopaths with such deep-seated distrust for authority figures that they'd doubt the deathbed confessions of their own mothers.
Now "Reporters" are so invested in the permanent Deep State's official narratives that they spend all their time dissecting the credibility of the occasional government critic.
A couple decades ago, any reporter worth his salt would have laughed in the face of some nansy-pansy critic accusing him of "Hate speech." The most well-respected reporters would have either hung the libelous dross on their cubicle walls as meritorious decoration or tossed it in the bin, doused it with file drawer whiskey, and lit the calumny on fire.
Today's "Reporters" have so betrayed the basic principles of their own profession that they believe it is their deranged civic duty to tell everyone else what they may or may not think and say.
Think that's hyperbole? Why has Julian Assange spent over a decade in legal purgatory and consular captivity while trying to avoid American incarceration and assassination? Why is Edward Snowden now a citizen of Russia, rather than a celebrated whistleblower addressing college auditoriums here in America? Why is Gonzalo Lira, Sr. mourning the torture and murder of his son in a Ukrainian prison, when Joe Biden could have freed the American citizen at any time? Because Assange, Snowden, and Lira all reported truths that revealed the U.S. government's criminality, corruption, and antipathy toward the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
Today's "Reporters" cannot possibly fathom why any person would want to be free from government coercion.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/todays_journalists_seek_power_not_truth.html
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