Boo Hoo: Media gets offended at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
While masquerading as a celebration of the First Amendment, the event provides a platform for those in the media to cozy up to politicians they are supposed to hold accountable.
While masquerading as a celebration of the First Amendment, the event provides a platform for those in the media to cozy up to politicians they are supposed to hold accountable.
Too much contemporary reporting focuses on horse race coverage — who’s winning and who’s losing on a given day or week.
But overall, this portrayal is based on the media’s massive oversimplification and exaggeration of many students’ views.
They too, under the edicts of intellectual diversity, should regularly get a chance to argue in publications like the Times.
These kinds of reports shouldn’t have journalists worried about losing their jobs and should be considered part of owning and operating a media organization.
What is clear is that the article should be spurring thoughtful discussions about sexual abuse, power and journalistic ethics.
How the media frames the issue of white nationalism is crucial because it impacts how people view the ideology. So far, the media’s framing has been problematic.
But as journalists pursue more stories about powerful men and sexual misconduct, it’s important that they keep a wide lens.
Not taking these steps would be an abdication of responsible journalism, as well as a slap in the face to those whose lives have been forever changed by this horrific tragedy.
In the media’s never-ending quest for viewers and clicks, it’s the public — not the Trump administration — that loses.
If mainstream journalists refuse to call out Trump for his lies now, the word likely won’t appear in the media’s future descriptions of those in power