A major reason we are where we are today is b/c the national press rewards elected liars, rather than disgracing them. There is no incentive not to lie to the public.
There's 'fact checking' columns now, but the results don't impact actual coverage. At all.
There's 'fact checking' columns now, but the results don't impact actual coverage. At all.
U.S. lawmakers are baldly, flatly lying about provable facts throughout the impeachment hearings. This is an inherently corrupt act, not a partisan one. But no network or paper treats it as the betrayal of public trust that it is.
It's one thing for GOP to claim that past ethical norms, like honesty, no longer apply. But the GOP isn't the enforcer of those claims: the press is. And the networks and newspapers have, in their coverage, privileged those claims—out of expediency.
If WH/House figures notorious for lying to the public were identified and condemned as liars, rather than courted for new quotes, misleading the public would have a price. It has none; politicians would now be fools not to fabricate 'news'.
That's not Trump. That's CNN.
That's not Trump. That's CNN.
