Tuesday, April 16, 2019

WaPo: Fox News Was Right (subtext: we weren’t)

Lucianne.com links to a Washington Post story echoed at outline.com. Author Gary Abernathy writes that Fox News was right while most non-Murdoch outlets (MSNBC, CNN, 3 TV networks, the New York Times and Washington Post) were spectacularly, hyperactively wrong about the now-disproven Trump-colluded-with-Russians story.

Honestly, I have to admire the WP for printing this story. Watching them eat a heaped plate of steaming crow is schadenfreudelicious.

Real journalism is hard and can be unpleasant, particularly when what you know is factual is something you don’t like even a little. Modern ‘journalism’ is what happens when newsrooms are staffed with crusading crybullies.

Confusing what you wish were true with what you know to be true is wishful thinking. Wishful thinking ≠ journalism ... ever. Passing off wishful thinking as ‘news’ = propaganda or advertising.