US Journalism’s New “Golden Age”?

The Washington Post and other big media are hailing a new journalistic ‘golden age’ as they punish President Trump for disparaging them, but is this media bias a sign of good journalism or itself a scandal, asks Robert Parry, via ConsotriumNews.com…
The mainstream U. S. media is congratulating itself on its courageous defiance of President Trump and its hard-hitting condemnations of Russia, but the press seems to have forgotten that its proper role within the U. S. democratic structure is not to slant stories one way or another but to provide objective information for the American people.
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By that standard – of respecting that the people are the nation’s true sovereigns – the mainstream media is failing again. Indeed, the chasm between what America’s elites are thinking these days and what many working-class Americans are feeling is underscored by the high-fiving that’s going on inside the elite mainstream news media, which is celebrating its Trump- and Russia-bashing as the ‘new golden age of American journalism.’
The New York Times and The Washington Post, in particular, view themselves as embattled victims of a tyrannical abuser. The Times presents itself as the brave guardian of ‘truth’ and the Post added a new slogan: ‘Democracy dies in darkness.’ In doing so, they have moved beyond the normal constraints of professional, objective journalism into political advocacy – and they are deeply proud of themselves.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on May 23, 2017.