This article exemplifies the dangers of the style of journalism it is trying to promote. It proposes - without any proof – that Mark Felt was an unsuspecting tool manipulated by the “Deep State” into leaking information as part of a plot to destroy the Nixon presidency. Hunter then goes on to list a conspiracy theorist’s smorgasbord of issues on which he claims the media has, wittingly or not, acted as promoters of malign, secret, state agendas.

Hunter says there has been a decline in the credibility of what he calls “legacy journalism”. Sadly, I think he’s right. But the decline in journalistic competence and ethics that has been both a cause and a consequence of that decline will not be remedied by so-called “independent media”, which don’t even pretend to adhere to traditional journalistic values of evidence, argument and balance.

Journalism, particularly in Australia, has become opinionism for indoctrination propagators of Leftism !
Saw a piece by some commentator a few days ago who suggested that there's no Right or Left in politics however, there is an Up & Down with Labor et al being the Down category !

A recent US survey showed that traditional journalism as a group are among the least respected professions in the country, lower, if you can believe it, than Congress-critters.

Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, recently wrote..."We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement."

And since the election, other left leaning media have seen a massive decline in readership/viewership. MSNBC are looking at ditching their more opinionated, less believed channels.

People are increasingly getting their news from social media and aligned sites - Facebook, Twitter and the like. The whole substack experiment seems to be working out and sites like Free Press, now with close on 1,000,000 subscribers and whole knows how many other readers, are leading the way in how succinct and unbiased media is delivered.

At the same time, we have podcasters like Joe Rogan, fiercely independent and unaligned, (although he did finally pump for The Don) gathering more followers than most mainstream TV shows. He sits and chews the fat for three hours with this or that guest, and the fans flock to the podcast in their millions.

Traditional media was suborned by tertiary educated activists who see their jobs as supporting a side rather than gathering and reporting the facts. And people are turning off in droves.

Australia is behind the US curve in these regards but we are on the same trajectory.

Of course, not all of this is for the good. Charlatans and activists disguised as truth tellers litter places like Youtube and we see quite a few people in just this little group drawn into those echo chambers and falling for all sorts of rubbish.

The trick, as always, is to find the gems and follow them until they prove to be otherwise. I have my dozen or so go to sites that I visit each day but also ensure that I regularly cast my net wider rather than get caught in the echo chamber