Journalism

Journalism has failed us, not just in the US when the news media refused to report on the obvious corruption and utter incompetence of one candidate while failing to expose the lies told about the other.  They failed to treat the Presidential election as the serious matter it is.  Instead of properly  informing us, they chose to treat the 2016 election as entertainment.

Now that they realize the gravity of a situation they helped cause, the news media is fighting back, hard.  They are doubling-down to expose their enemy because now their business is threatened by the corrupt leadership they did nothing to expose!  Too late! The time for truth was before the election!

This is actually a global problem, journalism is now a bought-and-sold commodity.  Hard news is only offered when there is a profit in it.  The integrity in today's news is bastardized by greed.

Gone are the days when our news media fought to be the first and the best to bring the public to awareness of national and international news.

Shamefully, the only way some people get their story told nowadays is through social media.

Here is the story that was recently brought to my attention about the horrific conditions that are just being ignored by the media in a less lucrative part of the world.  Take a look at the people of Yemen, a poor neighbor of Saudi Arabia.  The deaths each year of thousands of helpless people are being ignored by the western world because our journalism is completely capitalist (or based on profit) and no longer concerned with integrity.  The corruption and violence in that part of the world has silenced the press.  Because what goes on there has little or no effect on our western economy, we hear nothing of these horrors!

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.dw.com/en/yemen-conflict-all-but-ignored-by-the-west/a-37157913

Shame on this once honorable profession for its utter failure to inform and protect our society.  An ignorant people are soon to be a captive and defenselessness nation.  Read about what it is like to be a victim when the whole world isn't looking.  Then maybe you will see what our future will be when our reporters turn a blind eye to truth!