{"id":24023,"date":"2017-05-22T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24023"},"modified":"2017-05-22T16:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T21:24:01","slug":"us-journalisms-new-golden-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24023","title":{"rendered":"US Journalism\u2019s New \u2018Golden Age\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US Journalism\u2019s New \u2018Golden Age\u2019?<\/a><\/h3>\n
Exclusive:<\/strong> The Washington Post and other big media are hailing a new journalistic \u201cgolden age\u201d as they punish President Trump for disparaging them, but is this media bias a sign of good journalism or itself a scandal, asks Robert Parry.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The mainstream U.S. media is congratulating itself on its courageous defiance of President Trump and its hard-hitting condemnations of Russia, but the press seems to have forgotten that its proper role within the U.S. democratic structure is not to slant stories one way or another but to provide objective information for the American people.<\/p>\n

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The Washington Post building in downtown Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Washington Post)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

By that standard \u2013 of respecting that the people are the nation\u2019s true sovereigns \u2013 the mainstream media is failing again. Indeed, the chasm between what America\u2019s elites are thinking these days and what many working-class Americans are feeling is underscored by the high-fiving that\u2019s going on inside the elite mainstream news media, which is celebrating its Trump- and Russia-bashing as the \u201cnew golden age of American journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Times and The Washington Post, in particular, view themselves as embattled victims of a tyrannical abuser. The Times presents itself as the brave guardian of \u201ctruth\u201d and the Post added a new slogan: \u201cDemocracy dies in darkness.\u201d In doing so, they have moved beyond the normal constraints of professional, objective journalism into political advocacy \u2013 and they are deeply proud of themselves.<\/p>\n

In a Sunday column<\/a> entitled \u201cHow Trump inspired a golden age,\u201d Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank wrote that Trump \u201ctook on the institution of a free press \u2013 and it fought back. Trump came to office after intimidating publishers, barring journalists from covering him and threatening to rewrite press laws, and he has sought to discredit the \u2018fake news\u2019 media at every chance. Instead, he wound up inspiring a new golden age in American journalism.<\/p>\n

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US Journalism\u2019s New \u2018Golden Age\u2019? Exclusive: The Washington Post and other big media are hailing a new journalistic \u201cgolden age\u201d as they punish President Trump for disparaging them, but is this media bias a sign of good journalism or itself a scandal, asks Robert Parry. The mainstream U.S. media is congratulating itself on its courageous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6963,512,7203,15341,5228],"class_list":["post-24023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-media","tag-robert-parry","tag-us-journalism","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24024,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24023\/revisions\/24024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}