Yo, journalists. The grandpa toying with your colleague's life by publicly conspiring with a guy with a known passion for tossing reporters out windows may not be great for the media, no matter how many clicks he gets you.
Sadly, no one cared when Nixon scuttled Vietnam peace talks.
Sadly, no one cared when Reagan scuttled the release of hostages in Iran.
Sadly, no one will care now.
Some journalists/editors are allowed to write trash, thinking that will up their pay. Most outlets (other than Fox, OAN, etc.) weed them out fairly quickly. It's up to readers to do their research. We still have choices in this country. A good place to start, imho:
www.allsides.com/media-bias/m...
Not the entire profession, just all of the mainstream political media -- yes, all -- and most of the opinion media, including essentially all the editors.
No. Name a national political journalist (one covering retail politics, the White House, etc.) at The New York Times who isn't an atrocious hack. It's the same (to varying degrees of hackiness) elsewhere.
Journalists on other beats -- like the ones investigating Trump at the NYT -- are heroes.
