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Armond White writes for National Review Online about a misguided new television series focusing on print journalism.
Just as the public begins to recognize the utter corruption of journalism, when mainstream media lie to us daily, the Peacock streaming service debuted The Paper, a series that attempts to distract us from the horrid truth by mocking the absurdity that journalism has become, the information service we have lost. …
… Intentionally insulting the presumed America-First Golden Age, Daniels and Koman completely ignore the deprivation that most Americans have gotten used to by accommodating the decision of media corporations to aggregate and then shut down local newspapers. …
… The wrong-way comedy of The Paper mocks the bozos who make journalism and cheats the gullible readers who accept it — the way many New York Times subscribers accept front-page “analysis” as news instead of opinion. The Office–derived bureaucratic premise places blame for the media’s constant slanting, deception (gaslighting), and omitted facts on budgets and fecklessness, rather than on the apparent, real causes: nonprofessional activism and dishonesty. …
… The demise of local newspapers goes deeper. It’s not simply a result of mainstream hegemony or the “hyperlocal” trend that favors parochial politics. Local papers now merely republish news-agency pieces or parrot government and public relations press releases rather than do actual shoe-leather investigation and phone-call-intense reporting (as romanticized in the movie All the President’s Men). The Paper’s myth disguises the dread circumstances in which mainstream media now operate as a counter government, using front-page analyses and dubious polls as a way to control public opinion and to support or disable political power. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, and the TV networks remain safe in their feelings of superiority.
It is unbelievable that a TV streaming series tries fooling us to laugh at incompetence and temerity instead. Surely this insanity has something to do with the aberrant fact that so many people do still trust and believe whatever the mainstream tells them.
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