Power Line's Scott Johnson interviews investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein who makes the following accurate observation.
I can’t believe the naiveté of people criticizing Tucker Carlson for his selection of pictures from the January 6 riot. Don’t they realize that is the way all television news — left, right and center — works?
It is all choice. First of what to cover, then of the desired narrative, followed by selection of those pictures and words which support that narrative. Improbably, we call the result "news" as though it were something objective.
People in journalism sometimes refer to what they do as "writing the first draft of history." The more definitive later drafts still end up hanging on the conceptual framework prized by the historian authors.
