I read that piece earlier in the week. It's good. And he's always a good writer.


According to the Journalism(dot)org website, "only about two-in-ten Americans (22%) trust the information they get from local news organizations a lot, whether online or offline, and 18% say the same of national organizations, slightly higher than the 14% who say this of the information they get from their friends and family. While the portion saying they have a lot of trust in each group is low, large majorities have at least some trust."

I think that last sentence is trying mightily to put some gloss on what is an abysmal assessment of the state of news media/journalism. Journalism(dot)org also went on to note that 75% of Americans say the news media is biased.

I always strove (outside of this room, in the past ;-) to play my journalist content straight down the middle, as I did in 2014 for PJ Media, which is by any measure a conservative media site. You can see that in my reportage on the 2014 Iowa U.S. senate race:

Bare-Knuckle Brawl in the Hawkeye State as Ernst, Braley Hammer Each Other | PJ Media


I think that I was also fairly prescient in 2014 in covering the Wisconsin governor's race ;-) :


Tightening Race in Wisconsin Could Shape Walker's Presidential Aspirations | PJ Media


I'll say this: there are an AWFUL LOT (and they (journalists) are sometimes an AWFUL LOT hahahaha!) of journalists who have difficulty separating their journalistic duties from their need to engage in advocacy journalism, while disguising that advocacy as nonpartisan work. But many are so far into the ideological swamp they can't even see they're biased. It's one reason I pulled back from journalism and, especially, politics in 2014. After you meet a number of the herd (the pack of journalists covering politics, as well as meeting the politicians, their staffs and aides and various support organizations) you realize there are better things to do with your life than cover this stuff. Like pick lint from your belly button, for instance. LOL!

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"Politics is just show business for ugly people."