Journalism has 'comforted the comfortable' for too long now
In 1902 a Chicago newspaper columnist coined a now-famous phrase that defined journalism in his time: "The job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
Whatever happened to that?
As the Biden administration pushes forward on social programs and foreign policy moves that have consistent voter support, the mainstream media too often under-reports that support, and instead headlines the rallying cries of the opposition and glosses over deeper reasons why expanding middle- and working-class benefits ignites such resistance in this country.
Coverage of the Democrats' efforts to craft a reconciliation bill has been relentlessly superficial. Reporting from inside the Beltway resembles campaign horse-race journalism, with an unwavering focus on minute-by-minute assessments of who's up and who's down.
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