Minds poisoned! News that isn’t- as Journalism dies.

    News that is aimed at entertaining an audience as well as inform & educated the audience is doomed for failure. 

     Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein remarked recently that today’s media is “more gossip and trash than news.” -

       Bernstein’s Watergate is the genesis of todays “investigative (Gotcha) Journalism added, “much of today’s news has evolved into gossip, sensationalism and manufactured controversy.” –

     “That type of news panders to the public and insults their intelligence, ignoring the context of real life,” he said. “Good journalism,” he added, “should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.” - 

     I know a con when I see one…(it does take one to know one).  

     At the very least mediacrats are distorting the idea of news being connected to journalism and the ethical requirements that govern that which we read.  It is simply BeyondPuke that we can regulate the food we digest, the drugs we saturate our bodies with but no governing body to watch what we feed our heads.  You know…S_it in S_it out!

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