Modern journalists have little in common with those I was privileged to know when I was a copyboy at NBC News in Washington in the ’60s.
Today’s “journalists” will disagree, but as numerous surveys have shown, the public trust in what is collectively called the media has sunk to an all-time low. Only the media think they don’t have to change and can continue to sell a product more and more people refuse to buy.
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