Seriously this is the dumbest thing I have read in a while.

“The modern campaign against the American press corps has its roots in the Nixon era. President Richard Nixon’s angry foot soldiers continued his fight against the media even after he left office.

Roger Ailes, who went on to help found Fox News, was the most important of those figures. His sustained assault on the press created the conditions that would allow a president to surround himself with aides who argue for “alternative facts,” and announce that “truth isn’t truth.” Without Ailes, a man of Trump’s background and character could never have won. Roger Ailes was the godfather of the Trump presidency.”

Roger Ailes is the evil mastermind using the media for his ends.  And no one else does that mind you.  The liberal “conventions of television journalism” are just stating the facts.  LOL!  It couldn’t be that the media has lost it’s credibility because they ‘only’ called out Nixon, not the Kennedys, Johnson, Clinton and their masterpiece Obama.  It has to be because Ailes manipulated the masses.  Just amazing blindness.  The whole genius of our founding was that everyone does this.  Everyone fights for their interests.  That’s how humans work.  That’s why we need debate instead of war.  That’s why we need checks and balances. That’s why we need minority rights by filibusters and split houses, and an electoral college.

 “The promise[of FOX NEWS] to be “balanced” was a coded pledge to offer alternative explanations, putting commentary ahead of reporting”

LOL!  They can’t say they are balanced but you can claim to have a corner on truth?  And where is the code?  They admit they have both sides.  They refer to their shows as ‘opinion’ and ‘commentary’. I suppose this article is hard-hitting journalism and not commentary.  The majority of CNN headlines are all commentary.  And so in lockstep with every other network and the Democrat Party, you wonder if they aren’t all faxing each other.  Oh wait they are.

“Ailes helped destroy Dukakis by making him seem an other to many Americans.”

Yeah, it couldn’t be that people liked Reagan, who won every state except MN, and wanted his policies to continue by electing his Vice President.  Talk about manufacturing a defeat by bashing the opposition.  Can anyone remember anything about Clinton’s victory over Bush except Dana Carvey incessantly repeating “Read my lips”?

“But Ailes exploited the public’s lack of knowledge of journalistic conventions, portraying reports about social change as advocacy for such change. He played up cultural fears, creating the mythology of a biased press.”

Seriously what a sick twisted version of reality.  Who cares about your stupid journalistic conventions?  I guess his Bill of Rights reads “The journalistic conventions I pulled out of my butt shall not be infringed upon.”  It is an established fact that the news coverage is 98 percent liberal at all major media outlets in every form of media.  And we are going to pretend that their news is not tailored to drive a certain agenda?  Which ideology was it which drove a man to start shooting politicians at a baseball practice?  That guy was a CNN puppet and he shot a Conservative,  Steve Scalise. Which ideology is marching violently in the street?  It’s ANTIFA which yesterday was Occupy Wall Street, and before that ACORN, which was Obama, who before that was Barry Soetoro.  Who was a social construct perpetrated by media alone.  He was a living myth.  We still no nothing about his past or even what he did while he was between speeches pretending to be running things.

“critics may be accusing journalists of having deliberately and consciously shaped their reporting to serve some political end. That sort of overt bias is far rarer. Ironically, the best example of this kind of bias airs regularly in prime time on Fox News.  “

LOL!  No you fool,  they aren’t shaping anything.  You are all so stupid, you just follow your programming.  You were all trained in the same idiotic schools, to think the same way. I believe you called it “journalistic conventions” earlier.  You are so deep in the Kool-Aid you don’t even realize it.    This is the problem with reading your own press.

 “And what did we reporters do in the face of this cable onslaught that would eventually turn into a social-media virus and lead us to the election of the most fact-free presidential candidate in American history? Nothing.  We did nothing, because we were trained to say nothing. Good reporters know that they have to let the chips fall where they may,”

Wait what now?  You did nothing?  I must have missed that, because I have been living in a world where 91% of every word out of every reporter’s mouth for the last two years has been bashing Trump.  And the list of ridiculous stories, which they attempted to use is unending.  The flagship of which is a totally fake, ‘investigation’ into Russian ‘meddling’.  Whatever that is. I think it has to do with the medley of mixed nuts working at any given has-been news outlet. And the Mr. Muller Nut on the can.

“to the biggest missed news story of the 21st century—the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq”

This article really is a catalog of delusional stupid for the past decade.  When did this story get missed?  When you people used it to create ISIS and weaken the US Military, for political ends?  When it got your Marxist patsy Obama into the White House?  And what about the growing number of troops developing cancer, related to weaponized carcinogens they encountered in Iraq?  What about the nerve gas Assad has been using on his own people, which everyone knows came from Iraq?  I’ll wait for the patient, unbiased reporting on that one from your ‘reporters’.  I mean it’s only been a dozen years or so.

“I’m fully aware that some entity will try to tarnish this piece simply because I work at a news organization that, yes—gasp—has made mistakes.”

This is the best you can do at anticipating criticism of this insane screed?  But thank you for reminding us of NBC’s  Tom Brokaw and Chris Matthews and Matt Lauer and their  serial abuse of women.  Abuse which your crack squad of savvy motivated journalist were unable to see right under their noses.  Let us not forget Brian Williams and his tall tales.  And since you are so cozy with all the journalists except Fox News.  You surely want to own your buddy Dan Rather’s forged documents over there at CBS.

“The same can’t be said for the manipulators who aren’t playing by any set of serious journalistic rules.”

Which rules are those exactly?  Are those the rules that say you can send thousands of vermin up to Alaska to dig through a vice-presidential candidate’s neighbor’s garbage.  But were duty bound to ignore the huge list of scandals associated with Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the previous months.  See you, the average American, are a Deplorable.  Only the wise Chuck Todd is able to set the rules for journalism so that all you peons can be kept on the plantation.

“American democracy requires a functioning press that informs voters and creates a shared set of facts.”

Seriously?  Like the ‘facts’ Obama manipulated at every established branch of government, which had been trusted for years.  From manipulated jobs numbers at the Department of Labor to manipulations of climate data at NOAA to whatever happened for those 18 months when the national debt magically stopped.  I’ll hold my breath for your reporters getting to the ‘shared set of facts’ on those issues.  And the foolish audacity to pretend there is such a thing as unbiased facts.  In the immortal words of Will Ferrel playing Alex Trebek: “Simply stunning.”

“The idea that our work will speak for itself is hopelessly naive. Fox, Limbaugh, and the rest of the Trump echo chamber have proved that.”

I just love this eco chamber response to everything conservative.  I get it all the time, apparently it’s their only argument apart from “racist”.  And yet which perspective controls all the schools, all the colleges, NPR, PBS, and all the ‘responsible’ media outlets, Hollywood studios, magazines, books, TV shows.  It would be hard to construct a more complete echo chamber.  It’s like the squirrel in 1491 who could go from Florida to Main without touching the ground.  You can live your whole life without ever hearing a word from “Fox, Limbaugh and the rest”.  What you do hear is the echo chamber narrative that their listeners are all programmed robots.  As Todd malfunctions he repeats his J-school firmware programming.

“It recently allowed a sitting state attorney general to co-host a show for three days. The network effectively gave a GOP candidate for Florida governor nearly unfettered access to its airwaves during his primary campaign, providing a more significant boost than any super pac can offer.”

So you admit that TV shows are free airtime unregulated by the twisted McCain-Feingold legislation?  Hold on a second while I tally up the fawning-as-news for Obama, Hillary and every other Democrat.  This is a pretty amazing psychological projection.

“ Every day, we need to do our job, check our facts, strive to be transparent, and say what we’re seeing. That’s what I’ve tried to do here.”

Really?  Because I have not seen one fact here.  I have seen no restraint or objectivity or transparency. It’s just another commentary piece dressed up as poignancy, with the effect of endless belly laughter.

“I even caught myself drawing false equivalencies because I was afraid of being labeled as biased”

Don’t worry Chuck everyone knows you are biased and this insane piece of garbage is the final nail in your credibility.

“I’ve also learned that the louder critics bark, the more they care about what’s being reported.”

Well we shall take your barking for what it is then.  Concern that your pet projects are dead by the hand of Roger Ailes, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.  We know who to call to dance on your grave.

“I’m not advocating for a more activist press in the political sense”

Yes because how is that even possible?  You shot your wad.  You fought the corrupt, deceitful, evil fight and now it’s all over but the massive over-eating and a gender transition, that you might be that fat lady who sings.   But you do look like more of a swan, singing.

“It means not allowing ourselves to be spun, and not giving guests or sources a platform to spin our readers and viewers”

Seriously?  After you leave the truth on the cutting room floor for a few sound bytes which clearly feed your bias, time and time and time and again.  You are going to attack new forms of media where people talk for three hours on AM radio or Youtube, thoroughly interviewing guest and working through issues, uncut?

“The truth is that most journalists, in newsrooms large and small across the country, are doing their best each day to be fair, honest, and direct. These values are what Americans demand of one another, and it should be what they demand of their media. The challenge for viewers and readers is this: Ask yourself why someone is so determined to convince you not to believe your lying eyes. “

This probably is true.  They are really this far gone.  They have never read anything from the other side, because their professors kept it from them.  I have met almost no college grads who have heard of Edmund Burke, G. K. Chesterton, William F. Buckley, Richard M. Weaver,  or Whittaker Chambers, much less actually read their works.  From the Fairness Doctrine to Shadow Banning to Demonetizing, you don’t use truth, you use government and corporate censorship.  The protections of the free press were aimed at you.  America has asked itself this question and it has found the simple answer, you don’t want us to have the truth.  This article and articles too many to count attempt to shut down all opposing viewpoints. And so you are out.  You are over.  You are a joke.

This is how liberal hackery dies.  With a whining list of all it’s faults posited as accusations against anyone who dares to question the groupthink.