And Most are Doing It Again
For those of us that witnesses the circus that became the presidential race for 2016, we stood aghast at the horrors that trump displayed. However, for the media he was a gift from heaven as they reveled in the increased viewership as he spewed his hate speech. The more eyeballs they had on their pages — the more advertisers were signing up to be part of what was increasingly like pre-WW II Germany. While those of us with critical thinking kept contacting the media organizations asking them to rethink their strategies, it fell on deaf ears. And now we are again at the same place, feeling like the movie “Groundhog’s Day” and some in the media are drooling at the fact that they can once again increase their coffers… but this time, they are selling out our country and democracy because there aren’t any guardrails to stop what has become clear to be an insane man and his sycophants.
I once had respect for the media. I worked in three newspapers across the country, and although they were smaller papers, they shared one thing: integrity. In each and every case, editors and managers would refuse to run stories that weren’t fact checked and verified. Advertising supervisors would reject any advertising that smacked of “scam.” Reporters were held to an accountability standard that was very high and they published the truth…
