DO OTHER BETTER GOVERNED COUNTRIES JUST HAVE BETTER JOURNALISTS?
Excerpt from recent post:
"...Well then why have First Amendment protection which accomplishes, in what has apparently now been a relatively quite long run (even for an economist), nothing? Why?
Why reward failure, either in government or in the media?
Why protect incompetence, either in government or in the media?
The classic argument of the media has been that it has been its job to bring rectitude to wayward government.
The classic argument of the media has been that it has been its job to bring rectitude to wayward government.
It has been demonstrated, particularly by the current international scene debacle under Trump, that the media have all singularly failed in their announced (but illusory) mission, the very basis and ground of their prerogative under the First Amendment, to call out and correct bad government!"
Then, if you call them on their own ostensible raison d' etre, they will tack to what I have called The Lorch Defense, that the media is really a business, mainly about targeted entertainment, targeted ideology for a readership, not news or actual political reform in any direction, not an educational or improvement institution at all: Terms search Lorch.
If they do suggest reform, occassionally, as Liberace does now re the Supreme Court, it is because The Court is now firmly opposed to liberal media like the NYT, whereas if the political shoe were on the other foot, you would hear nothing whatsoever about Supreme Court reform from Liberace.
Then, if you call them on their own ostensible raison d' etre, they will tack to what I have called The Lorch Defense, that the media is really a business, mainly about targeted entertainment, targeted ideology for a readership, not news or actual political reform in any direction, not an educational or improvement institution at all: Terms search Lorch.
If they do suggest reform, occassionally, as Liberace does now re the Supreme Court, it is because The Court is now firmly opposed to liberal media like the NYT, whereas if the political shoe were on the other foot, you would hear nothing whatsoever about Supreme Court reform from Liberace.
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