bracingviews.substack.com
Keep the comedy gold coming, Kaffeyah Dan! 🤣And just go to the lecture, it’s amazing.
If you're a U.S. reporter, anything but rabidly pro-Israel coverage is dangerous to your career
Learning from Ashleigh Banfield's Landon Lecture of April 2003
Gaza, the West Bank and Israel are talked about in the lecture, but what it’s about is the importance of “real journalism” as opposed to “coverage” coming out of cable news channels. The lecture is from 2003, 21 years ago, and it is distressing to know nothing has changed, basically gotten worse, as networks abandon journalism, the reporting from every side in a conflict, to one-sided coverage. I didn’t know who Ashley Banfield is, but her lecture is mesmerizing.Go Israel!
Eventually you’ll grow enough hair on your chest to read or listen to one of these links. And then you’ll realize what a boob you’ve been making of yourself all this time.
Real journalism died when Obama was elected president. At that point, the MSM went fully to bat for him, and Fox proved that being the foil was profitable, and journalism has been party-line rhetoric ever since.
“Real journalism” died long before Obama. I would say of every link I have ever posted this lecture, which set back Banfield’s career for years, is the one I would encourage you to listen to if you were only going to listen to one. It’s that good.
When IN YOUR OPINION did journalism die then? When did the NYTimes become the DNCTimes? What moment in time do you correlate to media finally jumping the shark and simply becoming mouthpieces? It was after Clinton, imo. Otherwise you don't get the Blue dress story and a media willing to talk about it. Between Clinton and Obama, you had Republican presidents and a left-leaning media, so investigative journalism was still occurring. It was only with the election of Obama, that the media decided that to investigate the Obama administration (in any way) was tantamount to racism. Hence, why I state that journalism died with the election of Obama. So I ask you. In YOUR opinion, when did journalism die?
