There's probably a stone tablet from antiquity talking about how dishonest journalists are.
If there isn't, we just haven't found it yet.
If there isn't, we just haven't found it yet.
You know it happens, but you still think to yourself, "am I exaggerating? Is it really that bad?"
Yes. Yes, journalism is that bad, and always has been.
> Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed.
> I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines."
George Orwell
Yes. Yes, journalism is that bad, and always has been.
> Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed.
> I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines."
George Orwell