Re: Chris Matthews “Journalism”
March 19, 2016
Roger: Nor can we forget how, when Obama was first elected president, Matthews declared, live and in full color on TV, “I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work.” If MSNBC considered itself a genuine practitioner of journalism – instead of being a bugle for the interests of the ruling establishment – Matthews should have immediately been called into the network president’s office and told “you’re fired!” That he was not, only shows how Matthews’ shortcomings extend throughout the mainstream media.
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
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