The lamentations of a bygone era when journalism was an objective and respected profession have reached its zenith in an age of aggressive liberalism. You can’t help get soaked by crocodile tears bubbling up from the editorial pages in both national and local newspapers. Leftist pundits are wondering if we, as a people, are capable of a dialogue. The answer is no.
Leonard Pitts, Jr. opined on the right vs. left
schism in the United States. If his
op-ed was an attempt at starting a dialogue, it sure as hell missed the
mark. Here is an excerpt:
That’s one example:
There are others. But instead of calling out biases in the mainstream media
structure or simply creating a parallel media structure to tell their side of
the story as women, African-Americans, LGBTQ people and other marginalized
communities have done, conservatives sought instead to raze mainstream media to
the ground.
Sykes, Rush Limbaugh,
Sean Hannity and others advanced a narrative in which no institution or
authoritative source — not statistics, not science, not history, not polls, not
CBS, CNN, The Miami Herald, or The New York Times — is legitimate if it
contradicts conservative orthodoxy or simply questions the latest harebrained
conspiracy theory.
The result has been
nothing less than the unraveling of the American mind. We have become a nation
of junk history, junk science, junk fact, junk logic, junk thought, a nation
where not knowing things is no longer a bar to high office and may even be an
advantage, a nation where it is necessary to debate whether a birth certificate
is really a birth certificate and Donald Trump followers think the election
will be “rigged.”
First of all, we have
been calling out the biases of the mainstream media for decades. Second, conservatives have created an
alternative media. I’m surprised Mr.
Pitts is unaware of it. Third, we are
razing the mainstream media to ground.
But I assure you, it wasn’t us who lit the match. And finally, the sources Mr. Pitts cited are
no longer an authoritative source, or a respected institution. Progressives saw to that.
Mr. Pitts is right in
one sense: A generation of Americans have come of age in ignorance,
intransigence, and incoherence as their daily norm. I call that the Age of Obama. Be sure to check your underwear before entering a
public bathroom.
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