Maybe Drudge is more entertainer than reporter. I imagine he enjoys baiting the mainstream media, then watching it look foolish when his story is debunked.
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There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.
It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.
There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
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