Of course, the chances of an "Abortion access" reporter critically reporting on abortion are somewhere in the same vicinity as most economic and business reporters praising free markets: zero.
Why don't Republicans trust the media's reporting on Trump, you ask? We spent three feverish years chasing the Russia-collusion whale, an imaginary beast created by Democratic Party operatives and brought to life by big-name reporters at major outlets.
It's the Jim Acostas and Philip Ruckers of the world who get the book deals and big followings, not the diligent journalists poring over documents and offering serious, context-rich reporting.
There are plenty of solid reporters, but the most of the big-name journalists are only big names because they are granted a perch by powerful corporations.
Instead, well-read "Media critic" newsletters by reporters such as Brian Stelter have become indistinguishable from a Media Matters press release.
If you want to know why news consumers have a difficult time making a distinction between reporters and opinion journalists, it's because most of the time there is no difference.
Journalists have made it incredibly easy to dismiss their reporting because they treat every Trump misspelling, self-praise, garbled sentence, and exaggeration as if it were Watergate.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-rant-against-the-media/
Why don't Republicans trust the media's reporting on Trump, you ask? We spent three feverish years chasing the Russia-collusion whale, an imaginary beast created by Democratic Party operatives and brought to life by big-name reporters at major outlets.
It's the Jim Acostas and Philip Ruckers of the world who get the book deals and big followings, not the diligent journalists poring over documents and offering serious, context-rich reporting.
There are plenty of solid reporters, but the most of the big-name journalists are only big names because they are granted a perch by powerful corporations.
Instead, well-read "Media critic" newsletters by reporters such as Brian Stelter have become indistinguishable from a Media Matters press release.
If you want to know why news consumers have a difficult time making a distinction between reporters and opinion journalists, it's because most of the time there is no difference.
Journalists have made it incredibly easy to dismiss their reporting because they treat every Trump misspelling, self-praise, garbled sentence, and exaggeration as if it were Watergate.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-rant-against-the-media/
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