Comments on: The More Things Change /2009/the-more-things-change/ less helpful Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:37:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: A. Mercer /2009/the-more-things-change/#comment-247121 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:37:56 +0000 /?p=4564#comment-247121 Yeah, well grandma quit ready papers in favor of tv news because papers were “full of lies”, which may have seemed to be the case when you compare Walter Winchell to Walter Cronkite, so that is a super old argument, papers have just run out of a good revenue stream model as Internet-based ads take over.

But…I did almost do a spit take when I saw the originator of that quote. Really, Brit Hume complaining about objectivity, honesty, and checking out the story, considering the professional company he is now keeping, is a pretty funny.

I think looking at Hume’s quote, and the present day, both where he is at, and where op/ed is today, I would say that today, there is no agreement on facts.

He talks about investigating to see if the guy is telling the truth and confirm what they say. You could do that today, but you would get no agreement on the conclusions.

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