Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. — Hunter S. Thompson

Just what the fk is “objective” journalism? For Judy Woodward on the PBS Newshour it is to have two more or less equally brainless Congresscritters tell us what we know — which is that we have been complicit in electing brainless egotists to represent us in Congress. For CNN it means paying former Senator and unreconstructed soulless quasi-catholic Rick Santorum to give us the “other side” on issues on which they absolutely KNOW that he is batshit crazy. Of course that also ensures that the real dicks of the world get represented on the news cycle.
Recently MSNBC declined the opportunity to televise a Sarah Huckster Sanders press conference and I felt a brief breeze of sanity. Why continue to send overpaid journalists to listen to a blatant liar consecrated in the Church of Trump-Pence? Bad management at best, stupid adherence to a myth at worst. When a national network wheels out Congressman Nunez to defend sort-of-President Trump does anyone think for a moment that he in any way represents a true attempt at “objectivity”? If so, let’s imagine the dual interview of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler on the practicality of euthanizing 6 million Jews in the 1940s. Oh yes. Let’s hear from both sides because they both have a point….
It is possible that the American press simply needs to grow some courage to present itself as a real arbiter of the truth. Sure, Fox News will continue to find it’s “truth” as will MSNBC. But the more we take charlatans and whores like Rich Santorum and most of the Congress off the air the sooner we might begin to dream of the fantasy of a press that is objective in the sense of really seeking the truth. And while a significant portion of America will buy into Fox News myths, the news outlets with both brains and integrity can possibly win in the long run. And, if not, then America is in the dire straits that I have thought. And that will be dire in disastrous way. Time is short.