If you want to know what is so seriously wrong with the current western news media, listen to this interview between a lifetime journalist Helen Thomas and a political hack called Hugh Hewitt.
He doesn't get journalism and he doesn't get impartiality, he doesn't even attempt to reach objectivity, he believes that your political opinion is ALL that matters and that everything either flows from that or it doesn't exist. He makes it clear as day. He would have been right in Joe McCarthy corner, not the Ed Murrow one.
And right now, people like Hewitt make the decisions about what is reported and how it is reported; which means that when the bombs hit, be they financial, economic, health, environmental, meteorological, scientific, even political, everyone who listens to them will be looking the wrong way thinking about nothing useful.
Thank god and Vint Cerf and David reed and all the people who built it, for the Internet.
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