Never forget that most "reporters" are ignorant pawns of the establishment

Whenever you waste your time listening to the putative journalistic "community" you are listening to political activists who were simply given a byline by their political masters nearly all of whom are political activists.


White House official on some reporters’ overseas 

expertise: ‘They literally know nothing’

By Erik Wemple May 5, 2016 Email the author

Five years ago, the American Journalism Review

 found that 18 newspapers and two chains had 

closed every one of their foreign bureaus over 

the previous 12 years. A year later, the Columbia 

Journalism Review cited a rash of credential 

inflation for newspaper overseas “bureaus” that

 housed just one journalist. Last year, McClatchy 

announced plans to close its foreign bureaus.

The practical impact of those closures? Listen to 

Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser 

for strategic communications, who is profiled in 

this week’s New York Times Magazine:

All these newspapers used to have foreign

bureaus. Now they don’t. They call us to

explain to them what’s happening in Moscow

and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting

on world events from Washington. The

average reporter we talk to is 27 years old,

and their only reporting experience consists

of being around political campaigns. That’s a

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sea change. They literally know nothing.

Recent weeks have brought better news on this 

front, as the New York Times has announced a 

big investment in international coverage, and 

the Tribune Co. announced plans to expand the

 Los Angeles Times’ coverage via bureaus in 

Hong Kong, Seoul, Rio de Janiero, Mumbai, 

Lagos, Moscow and Mexico City.


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