On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 1:42 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of the (many) things the MSM just does not get is that, in this > environment, they need to be purer than Caesar's wife. Sloppy crap like > this is just fodder for not only idiots, but the "But Both Sides Do It!" > crowd. > During the 2016 campaign it became clear that Trump showed no intention of telling the truth about any topic. I remembered the 1960s phrase Credibility Gap and I wondered how the news media would handle him if he won. If Trump continually lies he has no credibility. If the news media don't hold him accountable they have no credibility. The facts of the last three years are that the news media chose to defer to institutional authority instead of talking truth to power and their only defense against the long term loss of their credibility is their own institutional authority. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiH3_xOaa-r8ythWED%3DM4dAsrB-PALzEm7ELJ1fFMZ10tg%40mail.gmail.com.
