How the media lost all credibility

Derek Hunter:

Every once in a while, some lefty journalist on social media whines about how the vast majority of the American public has no faith in their profession anymore. Inevitably, they blame President Trump for journalism being held in lower public esteem than a proctologist moonlighting as their chef during a latex shortage. But if journalists really want to know why the public views toenail fungus more favorably than them, all they need to do is find a reflective surface.

The Internet and the creation of Fox News were the first public cracks in the liberal monopoly on deciding what is and isn’t “news.” Small and insignificant at first, both quickly grew to the point that they couldn’t be ignored but were still just another chip in the paint of the bumper of a used car. They gave voice to different opinions, but those voices were just expressing differing opinions on the same stories. Then came Matt Drudge.

When the Drudge Report ran the bombshell story of President Bill Clinton defiling an intern, it wasn’t because he’d done the reporting, it was because Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff had done all the reporting and the magazine refused to run it.

What Matt Drudge did, and what conservative blogs then followed in doing, was show the American public what was on the cutting room floor – they exposed the stories the guard either didn’t think were important or, more often than not, didn’t want the public to see.

From there, the dam broke. Within a few years, the legacy media was dropping in esteem. When Dan Rather was exposed using forged documents to attack President George W. Bush, the old order was upended beyond repair. During the presidency of Barack Obama, journalism largely ceased.

The scandals of the Obama administration, which both the media and the former President insist didn’t exist, were not exposed by journalism or “news” outlets, they were discovered by Judicial Watch and Citizens United relentlessly filing Freedom of Information Act requests, then suing to force compliance.

None of this went unnoticed. Journalism is dead. But its zombie corpse rambles on, growling and grousing about how it’s not loved.
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CNN and others keep plumbing new depths in media depravity.  They have allowed their hatred to overrule their ethics.