We don't want journalism back - Don Surber

America does not need a cabal of pencil-necked geeks deciding which is right and which is an illusion - Don Surber

"...Twitter has replaced them all by being immediate and allowing all sides to be heard...

The idea of a Trump presidency sent the cabal of pencil-necked geeks running the news business into a frenzy. 

On August 7, 2016, in a front-page column...the New York Times announced that for all intents and purposes it formally was abandoning objectivity altogether.
It blamed Trump.

If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?
Because if you believe all of those things, you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century..
But the question that everyone is grappling with is: Do normal standards apply? And if they don’t, what should take their place?

Blah, blah, blah.
The newspaper was rationalizing its decision to become a completely propagandist tool of anti-American fascists...