Skip to the 7 min mark and watch 2 min. So funny.
LOL. Has red and alfalfa blamed the headlines on Trump yet?
Yeah, I watched those two minutes. Can't say I was rolling on the floor laughing, but I do get it. One of my chief complaints with respect to the media in our era is the focus on the profit motive. It's always been there, but I find fault, as an example, when an executive for CBS, was quoted during the 2016 campaign as being glad that Trump's "outrageous" statements were at least good for the bottom line. I know they can't help that focus, does not mean I have to admire it.
A far cry from the press as watchdog in a democratic society. A far cry from the example of Edward R. Murrow, who one night, to a national TV audience, exposed McCarthy and the Red Scare once and for all, and did so because he loved our country, while his bosses were concerned what effect his monologue would have. It had the right effect, it swept away McCarthyism.
Despite the opinions some here on this board have where I am concerned, I am indeed interested in truth, and I cannot help it if there are competing narratives tearing Americans apart. I believe I am fair minded, but I will oppose Mr. Trump to my dying breath. I believe it's called the courage of my convictions, and I either have honor or I do not. I believe the same of those who hold opposite opinions.
Most here are too young to remember when one broadcast journalist put mere reportage aside, and instead, in the spirit of the press as watchdog, which I believe was the spirit in which the founding fathers envisioned a free press, spoke to the nation. This is broadcast journalism at its best, profit motive be damned: