{"id":1716488,"date":"2022-10-30T05:19:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T09:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1716488"},"modified":"2022-10-30T05:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T09:19:12","slug":"bitter-clingers-how-mainstream-journalists-mourn-the-loss-of-cultural-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bitter-clingers-how-mainstream-journalists-mourn-the-loss-of-cultural-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Clingers: How Mainstream Journalists Mourn the Loss of Cultural Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbitter-clingers-how-mainstream-journalists-mourn-the-loss-of-cultural-supremacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1716488&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>We&#8217;re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but come on. There is surely an exception for <em>Newsroom Confidential<\/em> by Margaret Sullivan, the cover of which features a blurb from\u00a0Katie Couric about &#8220;how journalism really works.&#8221; Dan Rather must have been too busy looking for work. It sounds like a joke, but until recently the disgraced news anchor had a steady gig discussing media ethics on a show called\u00a0<em>Reliable Sources<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Having seen this, and noting the author&#8217;s work history at the <em>New York Times<\/em> and <em>Washington Post<\/em>, I judged Sullivan&#8217;s book to be an unserious work of #Resistance fan fiction. I read it to make sure, but I needn&#8217;t have bothered. For example, there is an entire chapter\u2014&#8221;But Her Emails\u2026&#8221;\u2014about how the media&#8217;s &#8220;endless emphasis on [Hillary] Clinton&#8217;s email practices doomed her campaign perhaps more than any other factor,&#8221; in which the author approvingly cites\u00a0noxious partisans such as <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/dscc-paid-david-brock-research-despite-leaders-wanting-party-drop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Brock<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/how-to-write-the-perfect-passive-description-of-chappaquiddick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Pierce<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/blog\/thinkprogress-angry-facebook-called-fake-clickbait-fake-clickbait\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian Millhiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like a white nationalist aghast at the country&#8217;s demographic transformation, Sullivan is &#8220;sickened&#8221; at the mainstream media&#8217;s loss of cultural supremacy. The author and her industry peers aren&#8217;t as influential as they used to be, which is bad because their opinions are the right opinions. They &#8220;base their views and actions on science and reason.&#8221; Alas, the American people don&#8217;t trust them anymore, but that&#8217;s mainly because of the Iraq war and Fox News, the author insists. Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase our country&#8217;s preeminent communicator:\u00a0You go to these big newsrooms in New York and Washington, D.C., and, like a lot of media outlets, the ratings and traffic are way down and nothing&#8217;s replaced them. Everyone keeps saying their audiences are going to regenerate and they have not.\u00a0And it&#8217;s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to democracy or the war in Ukraine or antipathy toward people who aren&#8217;t like them as a way to explain their frustrations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Newsroom Confidential<\/em> is half memoir, half lament for the media&#8217;s fading relevance. Sullivan recounts the &#8220;lessons&#8221; and &#8220;worries&#8221; she accumulated over the course of her 42-year career in journalism, which more or less traced the industry&#8217;s rise and fall in the post-Watergate era. A wide-eyed intern who worked her way up to editor of the<em>\u00a0Buffalo<\/em> <em>News<\/em>, she abandoned the Rust Belt for the Upper West Side and the &#8220;singular \u2026 cachet&#8221; of the <em>Times<\/em>, where she served<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but come on. There is surely an exception for Newsroom Confidential by Margaret Sullivan, the cover of which features a blurb from\u00a0Katie Couric about &#8220;how journalism really works.&#8221; Dan Rather must have been too busy looking for work. It sounds like a joke, but until recently the disgraced news anchor had a steady gig discussing media ethics on a show called\u00a0Reliable Sources.<br \/>\nThe post Bitter Clingers: How Mainstream Journalists Mourn the Loss of Cultural Supremacy appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1716491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1716491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}