“… beyond the three traditional branches of government, there is another that has often been described as a fourth branch: The free press [a.k.a. fourth estate] … The press has always had its eyes on the government, and has always served as the voice of the people, speaking truth to power.”
—Delbert Tran, Yale Law School
“In the sixth century of Gutenberg’s reign, more than four hundred years into the run of the periodical press, at the dawn of the second century of electronic media, a few decades into the Internet era, we still don’t have much of an idea of the impact of our media … [and] the press has promised to hold up a mirror to the world.”
—Gregory Shaya, Lapham’s Quarterly
“If the network doesn’t see trouble in this, it’s delusional. Voters on both sides of the aisle have changed since [CNN’s] Bernard Shaw days. They pay more attention to media manipulations, and it doesn’t get much more manipulative than punching above the facts to advance transparent political narratives, which is a new and accepted habit in the commercial news landscape.”
—Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Anyone looking
for my hot take on
THE GREAT PROGRESSIVE FEUD OF 2020,
it’s that CNN can eat a thousand dicks for choosing profit mongering over their responsibility as the ‘Fourth Estate.’
Why here:
—natalie michelle
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