NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen wrote on Twitter:
The “make Elizabeth warren say she would raise taxes on the middle class” question should be a credibility killer. For the journalists who keep asking it.
It is delightful and hilarious and instructive to see a #MediaJackal who calls himself a journalism professor drop the mask.
The mask is “modern journalism is a neutral watchdog that informs Americans and speaks truth to power and upholds the principles of the First Amendment.”
This is a lie. The howling pack of #MediaJackals posing as journalists is partisan, not neutral. As Prof. Rosen shows us, they hide facts (like tax hikes) inconvenient to Democrats instead of doing their job of informing Americans. They are leftist sycophants, not truth tellers. And they believe the First Amendment should apply only to people who agree with them–certainly not those deplorable racist Christian hater bitter clinger Nazis who voted for President Trump.
A generation ago we would not have seen the mask slip. The mask would have slipped at parties and invitation-only #MediaJackal events and in private conversations. But it would not have slipped in a way that normal Americans would have noticed. Now it does, and they do.
For all Twitter’s manifold flaws, we should be grateful to Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams for allowing this to happen. It is educational in a way I suspect NYU journalism classes are not.
Not long ago, any person arguing that reporters should shun politically inconvenient questions of their favored candidates would be struggling to maintain credibility. Rosen, though, is a professor of journalism—it says “I teach journalism” right there on his Twitter bio.
In an era where journalists revolt when the New York Times accidentally offers an unbiased headline, we have little reason to trust major media outlets. But if there’s any question where the hackery begins, the answer is in places like NYU’s journalism school.
NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen wrote on Twitter:
It is delightful and hilarious and instructive to see a #MediaJackal who calls himself a journalism professor drop the mask.
The mask is “modern journalism is a neutral watchdog that informs Americans and speaks truth to power and upholds the principles of the First Amendment.”
This is a lie. The howling pack of #MediaJackals posing as journalists is partisan, not neutral. As Prof. Rosen shows us, they hide facts (like tax hikes) inconvenient to Democrats instead of doing their job of informing Americans. They are leftist sycophants, not truth tellers. And they believe the First Amendment should apply only to people who agree with them–certainly not those deplorable racist Christian hater bitter clinger Nazis who voted for President Trump.
A generation ago we would not have seen the mask slip. The mask would have slipped at parties and invitation-only #MediaJackal events and in private conversations. But it would not have slipped in a way that normal Americans would have noticed. Now it does, and they do.
For all Twitter’s manifold flaws, we should be grateful to Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams for allowing this to happen. It is educational in a way I suspect NYU journalism classes are not.
And more:
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/17/whatever-you-do-dont-send-your-kids-to-j-school/