Wanna Know What's Wrong With Journalism? - Now It's not journalism, it's elitism.

Cronkite on his Yacht

Maybe the question should be. What isn't wrong with Journalism? m/r

Question: After reading the in-house editorials about the sale of the Washington Post, was the only story the Post ever published was "Watergate?"

Wanna Know What's Wrong With Journalism?
August 9, 2013 Bernard Goldberg

The other day I received an email from a reader named Christine who asked me to write a piece about the dangers of an “elite press.”  What got her “riled” – her word – was a story she saw on one of the networks about the Whitey Bulger trial in Boston.  According to Christine, the on-air network analyst said she would bet her “Hampton house” that Bulger is found guilty.

Get it?  Not her house.  Not her house in New York.  Her Hampton house – just so we all know that she’s one of the swells who if she lived in another time would probably pal around with Gatsby and his girlfriend Zelda.

Christine was angry, she said, because she figured anyone who would gratuitously slip in that she hung out in the toney Hamptons might have trouble understanding people in the city where Christine lives, Youngstown, Ohio – a place where people are struggling just to get by.

Christine is on to something.  Too many journalists (not all) really are out of touch with the America between Manhattan and Malibu.  It’s not just that they live in the Hamptons, where no matter how liberal you are you don’t want any poor people around whose very presence could ruin your day, let alone your marvelous summer.  It’s that many of the beautiful people don’t understand “ordinary” Americans who live in “flyover country.”

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