Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins says that Americans need a place where they can get “the truth.”
Well, yeah.
But where might that be?
Not by listening to the political parties. No way they are truth-seekers. Spin and self-advancement all day, every day.
Newspapers? No. Many are going out of business because they’re both boring and deceitful. Tough combo.
TV News? Come on. They have found fiscal magic by giving audiences exactly what they want - true or not. I took note of liberal Tom Hanks mocking MS Whatever the other day. Thanks for straight shooting, Tom.
Do you think social media delivers truth? It doesn’t. The game plan there is slash-and-burn. The internet assassins understand it’s cash for clicks, and gutter-sniping delivers the clicks.
Mr. Jenkins held up journalist Katie Couric as a truth teller. But when I tried to book her in the CBS chaos, she ran and hid somewhere in mid-Manhattan. Note for Holman: In order to report the truth, you have to actually stand up and say it.
The media collapse has badly damaged this country, no question. And that is the truth!
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