That what we hold as a journalistic tradition here in the United States is really a lie. As a nation we've NEVER held our journalism core to rigorous standards. If we did, how could tabloid media be as successful as it is? How could the top award for journalism be named after one of the most heinous perpetrators of "yellow journalism" (an American term) in history?
But this lie, this absence of standard is built into our society. A free press is just that... Free. Unfettered. Unrestrained. Plaster ten versions of the same story, told from ten different perspectives, and the people choose which version they like. Its our society in a nutshell.
Should ANY American journalistic institution be given the mantle of "credibility?" Or should EVERY journalistic institution in America be scrutinized the same? A story on Fox, a story on ABC, a story on NBC, and on CNN, all telling the same story from different perspectives... ALL OF THEM should be put under the microscope. Ryan is absolutely right that MAINSTREAM MEDIA is failing. ALL OF IT.
Maybe that's what the Founding Fathers had in mind all along... A population that has access to different sources of information, and the ability to discern the truth from them all. Whether we CHOOSE as members of this society to take advantage of this is up to us.
It is moments like this, this moment of accidental discovery, where the true beauty and awe inspiring greatness of the Constitution comes into focus a little more. There was NO WAY situations like this could have been predicted in 1789... Yet here we are and here we have the document enabling this freedom.
Damn.
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