Essentially the entire DC press corps -- like pretty much all of Big Journalism -- still acts as though the Murdoch family's poison-spewing Fox "News" does journalism.

Why?

@dangillmor let me know if you find out. I haven't got a clue. Maybe they're afraid of burning a potential future job?

@dangillmor

More, they criticize Lachlan’s lackeys, but never Lachlan himself. I think their editors don’t allow it.

@dangillmor

More, they criticize Lachlan’s lackeys, but never Lachlan himself. I think their editors don’t allow it.

@dangillmor because they are cowards and cannot (or do not) believe in their own commitment to journalism or ethical standards.
@dangillmor
especially when they’ve argued in court that no reasonable person would believe anything they say.. that was Carlson specifically … but it goes for the near entire cable station…
@dangillmor Because they’re more loyal to protecting the legitimacy of corporate power than they are to protecting democracy.
@dangillmor if you pay somebody enough to do "journalism" it must be, right? Tangentially, if you were willing to pay *me* that much to do journalism, wouldn't that be great? I'd definitely stick to my morals and standards like Shep
@dangillmor Follow the owner's greed.
@dangillmor
Because they're all ink-stained wretches?