Journalists being retarded, dishonest, and partisan is not new. Here is a bleak timeline:
Daniel Defoe would write for anybody who pay him. There are several large books specifically talking about all of the people who were
not ghostwritten by Defoe because he was that prolific amongst the elite. He wrote for both the Whigs and Tories. Defoe at the very least had the decency to do real journalism, but most of the time he shilled. He is sometimes considered the first real journalist.
The Boston Massacre was hardly a massacre and justified by the standards of the time. American colonists even found the soldiers innocent for good reason. The press still made this a rallying cry.
The Pullitzer Prize was created by yellow journalism. Pullitzer and Hearst were famous liars, but they also dragged the United States into the Spanish-American war by fabricating a story about the Spanish blowing up an American ship. There is no evidence of this and historians all agree that it blew up because its a steam ship and that just happens in hot climates if you mismanage the ship. This ended in the US fucking up Cuba and committing a genocide in the Philippines.
During ww1 the British and American press worked hard to push the war and their effort was so insane that it lead to people treating the holocaust and Japanese war crimes as a "boy crying wolf". When Germany executed a British nurse the British press went wild and when the British executed German nurses the Germans just accepted that as fair. Of course, the British nurses that were executed were actually spies.
Pretty much every major newspaper except
The Times in Britain denied the Holodomor in Ukraine. They had their journalists kicked out of Moscow for saying that people were starving in the countryside because of mismanagement. Most journalists took the bribes and underage prostitutes or were communists who believed they were serving the greater good with their lies. Walter Duranty of the New York Times even won a Pullitzer Prize for denying the genocide.
During ww2 the media failed to cover German war crimes, and basically just served the US government. The Uncle Joe (Joseph Stalin) propaganda is especially bizarre. They failed to speak up about internment and the numerous violations of civil liberties that happened during the war.
During the Cold War the press either printed red-baiting bullshit, or were basically communists sympathetic to various regimes. Meaningful discussion of the government expanding and breaking rules in the name of fighting the enemy was limited. Some journalists and academics even stanned for the Khmer Rouge.
The Gulf War was started by outright lies. The Kuwaiti government hired a media firm to get the press and government to push a story about the Iraqi government stealing incubators that they didn't even need. This was what made America support the war.
Everybody knows the Iraq and Afganistan wars were started based on bullshit. "War for oil" is an untrue meme, but the war being based on bullshit is true. The press worked with the government to start the war - simple as. Neoconservatives and their vague geopolitical goals are dangerous and hold disproportionate influence.
The New York Times and Washington Post take lump-sum payments from China to host a series called "China Watch". This also gives them access to a Chinese market.
TLDR: Most Journalists have always been retarded and dishonest.
All we really wanted was resolution too, proof that what was said to have happened really happened. Instead we got some acepilot manuveuring from the "friend" who did nothing to intervene and only blamed the most convenient party involved.
This is going to be reported as gospel by even historians if the Kiwifarms ever gets such attention. Although, Byuu may just be too retarded to keep a secret forever.
