"In the 19th century, power meant
control of the means of production; today, power lies in control of
the means of communication." (Patrick Buchanan)
The deep origin of the change in the
standards of journalism was the postmodernism taught in our colleges
and universities since the 1960's, which taught a relativity of
values, where only cultural power, not right or wrong, determined
morality and cultural standards---not unlike Marxism. Editors and
reporters absorbed this cultural ethos.
This also allowed other special
interests, who were not at all relativistic about their values, to
exploit the lack of standards of the Media.
And so we arrive at the take-down of
President Trump by a Media which no-longer keeps its own opinions out
of the story---and its opinions are always leftist or anarchist.
What can be done? Journalist Michael
Goodwin suggests ( Imprimis, June 2017) that we actually support alternative
media, which is at least a start at slowing the speeding decline of
our culture due largely to the Media.
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