As someone whose career was largely spent in promoting and defending freedom of speech and of the press, the damage done in the Trump era by so much of the mainstream media seems almost surreal to me. By their journalistic conduct they have opened the eyes of vast numbers of people to their leftward political and cultural mindset; they have accelerated the collapse of their own credibility; and worst of all, they have demolished both the practice and the ideal of objective journalism, the only kind that's truly needed in a democracy.
Smaller groups of people, most notably conservatives and libertarians, have known for many years about the ideological and cultural views of broadcasters and major newspapers, as well as the recording industry and Hollywood. But until the election of Donald Trump most such practiced their craft in ways and language that passed for most people as the product of honest labor.
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