Thanks for posting the Persuasion link by William Deresiewicz, Tara. Not to compete with your great work, but I think every free thinker (critical thinker) should read this piece. He nailed it as to how the liberal elites got to where they are today. I read it yesterday, then printed off the transcript and read along while I played the audio. I wish I could articulate matters like that. ps - Thank you so much for being on Substack. There are a lot of folks (like me) who really appreciate what you think and say in the cause of current events and freedom.
I loved reading this piece. What great scenes are portrayed by the three writers.
From Nora Ephron: "That old ethos of gumption and self-reliance and mental toughness was a huge part of what we absorbed in newsrooms. It was as ambient as the ever-present noise."
What Ms. Ephron describes, was not just the province of the newsroom, but permeated much of working life in the past. Now, rather than being attracted to the energy and accomplishment that work can provide, the current fragility consumed zeitgeist fosters a demeaning focus on "work-life balance" and a host of other namby-pamby approaches to life.
It sounds like much of journalism succumbed to the same imposed social sickness as so much else of our society because of Covid. The lockdown perpetrators only considered the economic costs when the social costs were far more expensive. There is still a willful ignorance in the Elite offices of this nation of the essential need for real journalism in our once and future great and free society.
Just look at the ‘free world’s’ cancellation of Seymour Hersh’s revelations about Nord Stream…consider the dismissal, dehumanization and demonization of Vlad Putin and others and the false narratives so effectively dispensed to the masses in order to propagate hatred and Russia’s complete ‘cancellation’.
The 1960s and 1970s was the Golden Age, and today’s journalism and popular culture have moved on - to the detriment of humanity.
When i visited my brother in the CBC Montreal newsroom where he was editor, it was a small space they all worked in together. He went on to become the senior editor of the National, but succumbed to alcohol in the mid eighties and was fired. This profession does have its dangers!
Thanks for posting the Persuasion link by William Deresiewicz, Tara. Not to compete with your great work, but I think every free thinker (critical thinker) should read this piece. He nailed it as to how the liberal elites got to where they are today. I read it yesterday, then printed off the transcript and read along while I played the audio. I wish I could articulate matters like that. ps - Thank you so much for being on Substack. There are a lot of folks (like me) who really appreciate what you think and say in the cause of current events and freedom.
I loved reading this piece. What great scenes are portrayed by the three writers.
From Nora Ephron: "That old ethos of gumption and self-reliance and mental toughness was a huge part of what we absorbed in newsrooms. It was as ambient as the ever-present noise."
What Ms. Ephron describes, was not just the province of the newsroom, but permeated much of working life in the past. Now, rather than being attracted to the energy and accomplishment that work can provide, the current fragility consumed zeitgeist fosters a demeaning focus on "work-life balance" and a host of other namby-pamby approaches to life.
It sounds like much of journalism succumbed to the same imposed social sickness as so much else of our society because of Covid. The lockdown perpetrators only considered the economic costs when the social costs were far more expensive. There is still a willful ignorance in the Elite offices of this nation of the essential need for real journalism in our once and future great and free society.
The state of contemporary journalism?
Just look at the ‘free world’s’ cancellation of Seymour Hersh’s revelations about Nord Stream…consider the dismissal, dehumanization and demonization of Vlad Putin and others and the false narratives so effectively dispensed to the masses in order to propagate hatred and Russia’s complete ‘cancellation’.
The 1960s and 1970s was the Golden Age, and today’s journalism and popular culture have moved on - to the detriment of humanity.
Advanced AI will be interesting…
When i visited my brother in the CBC Montreal newsroom where he was editor, it was a small space they all worked in together. He went on to become the senior editor of the National, but succumbed to alcohol in the mid eighties and was fired. This profession does have its dangers!
"I’m mystified when I hear that so many of our 20-something news assistants prefer to work from home."
Just replace "news assistants" with almost all professional employees in the knowledge work fields
Dowd's book "Bushworld" is a great read!!!