fourth estate, 2020

“… 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

Flom­mist Na­tal­ie Michelle does­n’t have a bio. She just rants. Copy­right © 2020 Na­tal­ie Michelle.

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