The media’s iron-poor tired blood

 On one of the cable news channels this evening, the host – – whom I will call Malcolm Alpert – – after a marshmallow and banal introduction which stated that the supporters of the new president wanted things to be different, then proceeded to ask the guest to comment on what he thought that meant. 

This about a person who is an adjudicated insurrectionist, and a convicted felon (as I understand it).  Where is the love of truth? Why did viewers have to suffer with such credulous anemia?

In short, where is the media’s outrage over a riot resulting in the deaths of several persons?  Moreover, where is the media memory? I understand that in the working world, employees must give the bosses their due.  But where is the courage?

Without letting work-a/day reporters completely off the hook, the problem is the way the media is owned. With the pursuit of profit as the baseline motivation, we cannot be surprised at the kind of corruption which has crept into so-called broadcast journalism.

Let the owners accept their responsibility for this fiasco.