When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, it send shockwaves in Washington. For the first time in modern US history, an individual had won the highest office purely on grassroots support and by challenging the Washington Democrat Establishment.
Trump was a threat to the status quo in Washington. The
establishment knew they not only had to personally denigrate him but also
delegitimize his victory to prolong their relevance.
They first concocted the Trump-Russian Collusion hoax. The
mainstream media amplified the lie with their breathless coverage. The
proponents of this hoax couldn’t tell how Russia meddled with the ballots or
how the votes were altered, they just knew it happened. If you asked questions
you were accused of spreading 'Russian disinformation.
The cacophony caused the appointment of a special counsel. For
the next two years, the media hysterically covered ‘leaks’ from the office of
the special counsel. With every leak, they claimed that "the walls are
closing in on President Trump”. This was a daily occurrence. If you followed
their coverage you would not be blamed for believing that it was not a question
of if but when Trump would be forced to resign in shame.
The hoax cost $32 million in taxpayer money and caused over two years of uncertainty. It probably cost the GOP the mid-terms in 2019.
In the
end, the report came out and there was no evidence of collusion. President
Trump was obviously found not guilty.
The media should have felt embarrassed to be proven so
egregiously erroneous for such a prolonged period. They should have issued
groveling apologies to all beginning with President Trump. They should have
promised instant remedial action and pledged to improve.
But nothing even remotely such as that occurred. Upon being
exposed as hoaxers they merely moved on, as if nothing had occurred. Some
insisted that there was collusion but Trump was sly enough to cover his tracks from
Mueller.
Instead of being punished for their bogus reporting, the prime
propagators of the hoax won one of these most prestigious prizes for
journalism.
In 2018, both the New York Times and the Washington Post
were awarded
the Pulitzer “for deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in
the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of
Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to
the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual
administration.
Among the members of the Pulitzer Board was past Pulitzer
winner Carlos Lozada, non-fiction book critic,, and associate editor, The
Washington Post i.e. an employee of the Post was among the jury to award the
Post.
Despite their spurious reporting being exposed both
the Post and the NYT continue to hold the awards.
Recently, The Washington Post won the Pulitzer
Prize again, this time for its coverage of the Jan.
6th protests that went overboard causing the Capitol break-in.
The NYT also won for both its national and international
reporting. Rutgers University–Newark Professor Salamishah Tillet was awarded a
Pulitzer Prize in criticism for her New York Times essays on race in arts and
culture,
Among the members of the Pulitzer Board were Gail Collins,
opinion columnist, The New York Times, and Carlos Lozada, non-fiction book
critic and associate editor, The Washington Post.
Hence, a jury comprising of employees for the Washington Post
and the NYT voted to award the Pulitzer to the Post and the NYT.
These and the 2018 award, were clear cases of conflicts of
interest.
But we are living in times where neither the Pulitzer nor the
media care about being fair, worst they do not even care to appear fair or hide
their conflict of interest before the outside world.
If there is any accomplishment of liberals that is worth
studying it is how they managed to build their establishment by hijacking
various organizations to build their vast eco-system. Today,
administrative and government agencies, educational institutes, corporate
houses, NGOs, showbiz, intergovernmental organizations, the media,
and even juries for prestigious prizes have been co-opted by the left.
The Pulitzer wins for the WaPo and NYT that individuals
merely adhere to the establishment groupthink, they can be rich and successful,
and they can also win awards. Talent or skill or hard work or bravery or
independence is not needed. They do not have to deliver anything extraordinary.
They just have to follow convention orders and function as stenographers to the
establishment.
The coverage of the Trump Russia Hoax and the January 6th protests
didn't require reporting from perilous war zones in search of the truth.
There was no analysis and deduction of a complex political scandal or a financial
scam. The reportage was based on leaks, conjectures, overstatements, and
blatant falsehoods.
Once upon a time, journalists existed to hold the powerful
accountable. The mistrust of authority should be inherent among journalists.
They always maintained a safe distance from the powers that be in order to be
able to cover a subject fairly.
Those days are over.
In current times journalism is chosen as a profession
merely to climb up the hierarchy and rub shoulders with the power. The
journalists turn into loyal terriers for the powerful. They crawl when asked to
bend and prostrate when asked to crawl.
When they have served their master faithfully a biscuit is
tossed in their direction in the form of a Pulitzer which they proudly flaunt.
What an unmitigated disgrace.
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