Today’s paragraph comes to us from Rich Lowry, writing for nationalreview.com. It concerns the mueller report and what it tells us about the last two years’ media coverage.
Says Mr. Lowry:
There will soon enough be an effort to memory-hole it, but the media coverage of the Russia investigating was abysmal and self-discrediting —obsessive and hysterical, often suggesting that the smoking gun was right around the corner, sometimes supporting its hoped-for result with erroneous, too-good-to check reporting. Never has so little come of so many screaming chyrons. Every mini-scooplet was played up like major news, and if you went on air and said that collusion was unlikely and we should wait for the evidence, you were often treated like you were in the tank for Trump. The last two years have been a disgrace, and no one should forget it.
Truer words were never written.
I assume you don’t need me to tell you why Mr. Lowry wins Paragraph Of The Day honors.
It occurred to me how the media can regain some of its credibility. All they need to do is turn in the sources that lied to them. Certainly a source can’t expect to be protected when they have lied.