It's not that you mentioned Trump -- I get the comparison -- it's that you said, "You see it with Trump who, in essence, is actually not far from the truth when he labels stuff as Fake News" which is a bad take, whether you were being flippant or not.
I worked in MSM too and the blanket dismissal of its value by those MSM criticizes shouldn't be surprising. My problem is that dismissal is done so often by those too lazy, stupid or ignorant to read critically, expand their own sourcing and think for themselves. It's simply easier to say "it's all tosh" -- and it's especially easy when what you read in MSM doesn't comport with your worldview, whether fact or opinion.
So when you as a journalist imply an agenda so broad you suggest dismissing the MSM as a whole, it gets on my tits a little. Whether Trump or someone else is saying it, crying "Fake news!" IS far from the truth.
It's also a Brit/Yank thing -- some of the UK rags (as in papers) are quite astounding in their poor quality. But then you have some outstanding ones too.
Good post, and it raises an interesting question I've always wanted to ask a US based journalist.
I'm talking with broad strokes here, but please try to see the logic in my question.
Broadly speaking, I would say with mainstream politics, the US is to the right of the UK.
Of course there are exceptions, but broadly speaking the Dems are to the right of Labour and GOP to the right of the Tories.
But the trends with our media are the exact opposite.
The UK press is overwhelmingly positioned to the right of the US media.
The UK mainstream media is dominated by the right-wing; the Mail, Sun, Telegraph, ITV, Sky News etc.
But the US media is generally dominated by the left - NYT, Washington Post, NBC, CNN etc.
What would you put that down to?
Surely, logic would suggest MSM would cater to the political persuasions of its market?
