Journalist, media critic and bestselling author Howard Kurtz, the host of the Fox News program Media Buzz, that turns the microscopic back on the media is out with his brand new book, Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth. In the book, Kurtz puts out a plaintive cry to make journalism great again or failing that, at the very least he presses the media to get back to objective journalistic practice.
Unfortunately in the era in which we find ourselves currently mired, where Tweets, more often than not from Twitiots— are often passed off as news, that hope seems a long shot at best. All too often the truth is sacrificed on the altar of ideology and the need for speed.
Much like Bernie Goldberg’s classic take on the media, Bias, Kurtz offers a solid insider’s view of a world that he has been part and parcel of for decades as a working journalist and later as a media critic. Here his criticism is on point and not self-serving like so many other so-called media critics…CNN’s Brian Stetler, cough cough.
Kurtz makes a clear case that the media incessant, biased pursuit to “get Trump” at the end of the day will do little to impact the President and will have a detrimentally negative impact on the already diminished reputation of the media. Just like they underestimated Trump and his campaign and over-estimated the Hilary Clinton campaign, the media continues to misjudge the American people who populate the portion of the country that does call the media bubble home, and they do so at their own peril.
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