Howard Kurtz, that self-styled bastion of journalistic criticism who writes for Fox News has a piece out about a Trump-hostile media and “some pundits admitting they blew it.”
After producing a litany of…mistakes…made by newspapers and pseudo-journalists as they produced their erroneous analyses and predictions, though, this is all that Kurtz could conclude:
[W]e somehow decided that we knew what was best for them.
Kurtz is missing the point. His fellow pseudo-journalists didn’t miss their predictions because they misunderstood or blew off mainstream Americans—Americans outside their New York and West Coast bubble—or because they thought they knew what was best for us. That’s a symptom, not a cause. His fellow pseudo-journalists misunderstood and blew us off because they’re too biased to see the truth.
And so Kurtz exposes his own bias.
I suggest that the era of the NLMSM is past. It’s time for ordinary Americans to go elsewhere for our news and other information. It’s time for us to use our own judgment in evaluating that news and information.
The print and broadcast sources have shown they cannot be trusted; their output has no reliable value. Their output, at bottom, is no different than the entertainment fluff published by the National Enquirers or the Globes or the Stars of the entertainment industry. Kurtz and his ilk just take themselves more seriously.
“Kurtz and his ilk just take themselves more seriously.” Which is part of their bias. Journalists are professional (using that term very loosely) kibitzers – they look, they chatter about what they saw, but they actually do very little. And even less that matters. “Wind in the trees.”