I remember they briefly sent A.G. to the national desk and he had to do his time in the journalism trench by covering the mysterious "Midwest" with its many diners full of real Americans.
How does that old quotation go? " Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed (because its demonstrably incorrect and also virulently racist and transphobic and besides all that it’s source is a goddamned 4chan thread): everything else is public relations"
A.G. once basically said at an All Hands that NYT would avoid taking positions that would limit their access and told a story of a Guardian reporter who was banned from an Exxon press event after The Guardian stated plainly their position was climate change was real and oil companies are to blame
Corporate media exists to serve the interests of its owners. Always and everywhere. Rupert didn't buy all those networks to serve the public good.
The “noble crusading journalism” mythology is nothing but marketing spin.
Telling the truth is sometimes disruptive, sometimes challenging to conventional wisdom. Challenging conventional wisdom without regard to truth is vacuous contrarianism.
