Really dummie? How about reading this article exposing the truth in the Atlantic? The author grew up in the conservative bastion of Berkeley CA. Wrote articles for the conservative NY Times. Make sure you read the last two paragraphs dummies.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must-learn-covington-catholic-story/581035/
She pretty much exposes the MSM bias and takes them to task over their story... and she is one of them. And the bosses at the MSM news orgs wonder why they are losing revenue.
Pretty much, it's an admission against interest, as The Atlantic is reliably Lib/Prog, and as one can tell from the writer's tone, she's along the same lines, but has some honesty. Her conclusion is worth reading:
How could the elite media—The New York Times, let’s say—have protected themselves from this event, which has served to reinforce millions of Americans’ belief that traditional journalistic outlets are purveyors of “fake news”? They might have hewed to a concept that once went by the quaint term “journalistic ethics.” Among other things, journalistic ethics held that if you didn’t have the reporting to support a story, and if that story had the potential to hurt its subjects, and if those subjects were private citizens, and if they were moreover minors, you didn’t run the story. You kept reporting it; you let yourself get scooped; and you accepted that speed is not the highest value. Otherwise, you were the trash press.
At 8:30 yesterday morning, as I was typing this essay, The New York Times emailed me. The subject line was “Ethics Reminders for Freelance Journalists.” (I have occasionally published essays and reviews in the Times). It informed me, inter alia, that the Times expected all of its journalists, both freelance and staff, “to protect the integrity and credibility of Times journalism.” This meant, in part, safeguarding the Times’ “reputation for fairness and impartiality.”
I am prompted to issue my own ethics reminders for The New York Times. Here they are: You were partly responsible for the election of Trump because you are the most influential newspaper in the country, and you are not fair or impartial. Millions of Americans believe you hate them and that you will casually harm them. Two years ago, they fought back against you, and they won. If Trump wins again, you will once again have played a small but important role in that victory.
My emphasis. I think this fiasco and the ongoing shitstorm proves the sentence I put in red bold italic. The NYT and other MSM outlets violated and trampled basic core journalism ethics and principles because the boys: are Pro-Life; some wore MAGA hats; are Catholic; are mostly white; are from flyover country.
This incident did not merely "reinforce millions of Americans’ belief that traditional journalistic outlets are purveyors of 'fake news'" and the belief that the MSM "hate them and that you will casually harm them".
It was the latest and most recent demonstration of those facts. There are no journalism ethics and principles the MSM will not violate and trample to hurt Donald Trump and people who voted for and/or support him.
