Americans’ trust in the news media has plummeted to all-time lows. On the faith scale, journalists rank somewhere between carnies and members of Congress.
Corporate media, with their war on former President Donald Trump — and anyone who even remotely supports him — deserve your loathing. In fact, legendary reporter and media critic Michael Walsh says you probably don’t hate the contemporary American journalism collective nearly enough.
“You think you can, but you haven’t plumbed the depths of how much you can loathe these people,” Walsh told me in the latest episode of “The Federalist Radio Hour” podcast.
The award-winning journalist, author and screenwriter is editor of and contributor to the eye-opening new book Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You, a collection of more than two dozen essays from some of the sharpest minds of our time. The book tracks how journalism devolved from a meaningful blue-collar trade to a “consensus” profession of “bubble” elitists who have abandoned editorial ethics, even the First Amendment, for the “higher duty” of promoting and protecting the leftist agenda.
‘He Provokes Them Simply by Existing’
While Walsh and his co-authors drew from a deep well of shameful journalist behavior in filling the book, it was, of course, published before the corporate media clown show of the past several days. The essays could not capture the accomplice media blaming Trump’s campaign rhetoric for a second attempt on his life or writing off multiple complaints of Haitian refugees doing very concerning
