This combination photo provided by Time magazine shows its four covers for its 2018 “Person of the Year.”
Rex Murphy, National Post: Time is wrong. Today's journalists are not 'guardians of the truth'
Contemporary journalism is frequently as wayward as the social media it deplores. It has long since given up any attempt to be objective.
Time, that tattered, shrunken revenant of a once-popular news magazine, continues in its endless decline to delude itself that it has either the authority or the competence to name the “Person of the Year.” Brilliantly it named journalists — “The Guardians” — as 2018’s collective heroes, with Jamal Khashoggi given pride of place on the once-iconic cover. Time neglected to check on Khashoggi and now finds that it nominated a Qatar stooge, whose columns were midwifed by officers in the Qatar government, and whose “journalistic” career was but a distracting pendant to his many more serious activities, latterly as an anti-Saudi lobbyist, nephew to the one-time world’s biggest arms dealer, and a host of other shadowy mésalliances. The neatest summary I have read of Khashoggi, the journalist, is: “a highly-partisan operative who worked with a handler to publish propaganda at the behest of the Emirate of Qatar … in other words, an agent of influence.”
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WNU Editor: Regular readers know that I am always skeptical of the media. I guess being exposed to years of Soviet media news reports and lies made me become that type of person. But here is a real good post from Canadian commentator Rex Murphy, who unravels it all with a blow-torch.
...and yet every page of your site is filled non stop with media references to news items! are they all to be distrusted? some? none?
ReplyDeleteand then you cite a news source that tells us news sources not be trusted
there is a difference between being skeptical and being fully dismissive.
Time Magazine, for example, has always leaned to the right...person of the year is always a subjective guess
Anon,
ReplyDeleteThat is why I am always posting numerous links from different sources. I let you decide on what to believe or not. I am just the messenger, and in some cases I will put in my two cents worth in a brief commentary.
Anon and WNU; the WNU Editor has a great point. The wife and I taught the kids that they should always check their stories with multiple sources, and to include different types of sources. These blogs meet this need for me having multiple sources of info. I never conclude anything until after a lot of reading both article and entries.
ReplyDeleteNow having said this, this is a very sad state of affairs. Being an engineer, the quality of the "data" is so bad. Also, many people don't understand the above statement, nor appreciate how bad it is, thus many people come away with bad judgments and this is sad. The industry needs regulated but that is politically impossible so we're screwed.
regulations? the State to regulate a free press and decide what should and should not be published? stay with engineering
ReplyDeleteSome comments at this site believe CNN wrecks the nation. Yet, as the editor says, go to multiple sources...oh, they are MSM and they all agree but since I do not they must all be fake
I think they should be fined. For putting out news stories that are not true. Then come later retract them. Most in this day and age it's more opinionated then just news. I mean look at Don lemon. Fox is guilty of it to. I think annon has anger issues. If you don't like it go else where to find your own sources. It's like watching a TV show you don't like 😂. In all honesty Fox getting more rattings then all CNN abc ecy. 🙈🙉🙊✌
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