Surber used to be in the nooz biz. And he's pissed.
The Washington Post published a column that admitted to a dirty little secret. Many reporters not only don't read a newspaper but they don't follow the news at all.
Amanda Ripley of the New Yorker wrote, "I’m a journalist who stopped reading the news. Is the problem me — or our product?"
Ripley joins 42% of Americans who avoid the news....
That's a large number, but from my experience it's not surprising.
Oh, but Surber isn't done!
...The news media is laughably awful. It provides more sources for news and fewer people are bothering with it. That is how terrible the product is. News stories too often are biased, error-prone and wrong about basic facts.
The words don't, say and gay are not in what the media calls the Don't Say Gay law....
... Interest remained high during the Trump years but seems to have declined significantly since Joe Biden became president. Today, less than half of our sample (47%) say they are very or extremely interested in news compared with 67% in 2015."
President Trump was right (as usual) when he said the news industry would collapse without him....
He's not done yet!
...Climate change is a hoax.
A half a century of doomsaying by the media have sold the public on an imaginary problem. None of the famines and destruction predicted at that first Earth Day (Lenin's birthday) celebration in 1970 came true.
The problem is Ripley has heard this junk news all her life and she believes it. She gets depressed because we never are doing enough to stop this bogeyman. We never will.
Her problem is her sources of news: NPR, NYT, CNN and other purveyors of junk news. They pushed the Russiagate hoax for years. It was a lie to cover up Obama's use of the FBI to spy on Donald Trump. She gets depressed because The Donald will never go to jail because the crime never happened....
OK, Mr. Smarty-Pants. How do YOU keep up??
... In compiling Highlights of the News daily (Monday through Saturday) I use dozens of resources. I seldom link AP or NPR or NYT or CNN because they lie, often and without apology.
Oh and in Gaza, AP shielded Hamas by having its offices in a Hamas building. Israel eventually gave AP an hour to leave the building and then blew it up. AP is still angry not because it was duped by Hamas but because Israel dared to defend itself.
The sources I use come from real news aggregators, beginning with Citizen Free Press. Readers send me dozens of news tips. Instapundit, Pro Trump News and Legal Insurrection also are good reads....
At least one local TeeeVeeee reporter might learn a lot by reading Surber's daily offering. But I can also name a few who wouldn't--or won't--learn a thing. Throwing real news at them would be like throwing lightbulbs at a concrete floor. No illumination can possibly penetrate. Almost all of those work at the small local branch of USAToday.
Oh, well.
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