Instapundit had these tweets from Michael Shellenberger (not in his Twitter feed anymore) on information from Pew Research on how US Journalists see their jobs vs. how the Public see how they SHOULD be doing it.
There’s a pattern there – and the younger “journalists” will soon find out that if you call yourself a news journalist that is indistinguishable from a political operative, you’ll soon be saying, “want fries with that?” or taunts of “learn to code.” WAIT! Mcdonald’s is working to robotize ALL of its operations, and the rise of AI bots like ChatGPT is replacing low-level programmers)
They call themselves NEWS reporters – not opinion writers. And they wonder why the public no longer trusts them to report just News. We KNOW they are Woke; we KNOW they slant Left, because COLLEGE!
Remember that TV ad for the room freshener that talked about being “Nose Blind”? Yeah, that – journalists don’t understand they “stink” at their jobs, but they are so in the “room” they can no longer smell their biases.
This:
We have become segmented by age and smaller and smaller subsections of the population. Those people reading the Huffington Post and (formerly TreeHugger) are the kinds of folks reading the Washington Beacon or the Epoch Times (they may be reading the NY Times). This is similar to the geographical “Grand Sorting” that is happening as people migrate to Red or Blue States.
And it seems to not only be hammering in the biases of their readers and watchers but the Journalists themselves. It’s the Lefty journalists that are responsible for “misinformation” because they no longer accept the idea of Free Speech and that everyone gets to have an opinion.
But if you disagree with their monoculture, you are to be persecuted.
