...if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." JFK
Why has our profession, through its general silence -- or only spasmodic protest -- helped Fox legitimize a style of journalism that is dishonest in its intellectual process, untrustworthy in its conclusions and biased in its gestalt?Howell Raines
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Pew Research reports "that since 2000, newspapers have lost roughly 30 pct of their reporting and editing capacity."
In the absence of real journalism, commentary and opinion have filled the vacuum.
I remember the good old days of a bunch of college students sitting in the lounge watching Walter Cronkite. That was news and that is what is missing today.
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