The godfather of broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow, must be spinning in his grave this April Fool’s Day as a once prestigious award in his name has been bestowed on NBC’s chief Orwellian propagandist, Lester Holt.
Mr. Holt’s acceptance speech laid bare the cancerous media bias that Post-deconstruction exists to chronicle: “I think it’s become clearer that fairness is overrated. . . . The idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in. That the sun sets in the west is a fact. Any contrary view does not deserve our time or attention.” (Click the nearby video link to watch Holt’s self-serving remarks in their tedious entirety.)
Mr. Holt’s sunset analogy foolishly implies that the proper policy choices on taxes, immigration, law enforcement, trade, health care and countless other matters of intense political and societal consequence are as self-evident as planetary movements, which is to say beyond debate. But nothing could be further from the truth. And as with fairness, he and most of his know-it-all colleagues aren’t interested in any truth but that of the progressive left — the same wise folks who these days tell us a newborn baby’s gender is really unknowable.
In any case, an excellent antidote to Mr. Holt’s poisonous April foolishness is Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway‘s recent post, “It’s Important to Be Honest about What Today’s Media Actually Are.” “With very few exceptions,” she writes, today’s so-called journalists “are not there to do journalism, and we need to be honest about that with the public. Not everyone is as bad as everyone else, but nearly the entire press corps is somewhere on the Democrat activist scale, from lefty to fringe, from shrewd to clumsy and clownish.” Preach, Sister!