If The Washington Post were doing journalism instead of propaganda, its reporter who covers the news media might be focused nonstop on the fact that trust in the media is extremely low.
There is a reason why people have taken to reporting real news and information since those at corporate media outlets such as The Washington Post are so bad at doing actual journalism.
After finding out the absolutely jaw-dropping news that the Steele dossier was an information operation, bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign, Farhi wrote, "Most surprising thing abt Clinton's involvemnt w/Steele Dossier is why her campaign didn't make more of it." Citizen journalists knew enough to be even more suspicious about the quality of the shoddy product after realizing its provenance, but not the "Professionals" at The Washington Post! In fact, Farhi seemed to be bitterly clinging to the Russia-collusion scam as of a month ago, even after the Post begrudgingly corrected some of its fake news on the matter.
A few years later, when The Washington Post was brutally deriding Sen. Tom Cotton for suggesting the U.S. government should look into the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a potential source of the Covid-19 pandemic, The Federalist was publishing citizen experts who were arguing that maybe the paper owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos didn't have the story right.
Few "Citizen journalists" are as gullible as the average Washington Post reporter when it comes to such mindless participation in disinformation operations.
Who did better on the stories involving Jussie Smollett, Covington's Nick Sandmann, or the Biden family business? No, citizen journalists probably wouldn't describe Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an "Austere religious scholar," as The Washington Post did.
The Washington Post and other media outlets aren't "Failing" to get the story right.
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