THE WOLVES ARE GETTING CLOSER.

Just when I thought I might be getting too vitriolic about the media, a friend sent me two recent articles. The first, Why Trump Can Lie and No One Seems to Care by Neal Gabler suggest what I have been saying: the media, notably the broadcast media, is more interested in entertainment than fairness or fact. They don't seem to care that they might be slanting the news to the detriment of their country. Scary. The second article, Current Practices in Journalism May Reveal the Dark Side of Speculation by Todd Gitlin comments on how the media, without any factual evidence, will predict the future or irresponsibly predict how the public will respond to any given news story or even create the news story as they do when they lynch Hillary Clinton before the hearing has begun or all the facts are in. Edward R. Murrow died in 1965 and his level of truth in journalism has been slowly withering ever since. However it has taken a turn for the worse since the recent election cycles.