Where have you gone Woodward & Bernstein?

By Kent R. Kroeger (April 6, 2018)

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As journalism slowly dies in this country, the major news media organizations are gaining customers. These two trends are not unrelated.

Television and digital news audiences for many media outlets have been steadily growing since the election of Donald Trump. He is their golden goose.

According to the News Media Alliance, “Newspaper websites in the United States have seen an increase in paid subscribers (in 2017) — The New York Times has grown to more than 2 million paid digital-only customers, while The Wall Street Journal passed the 1 million mark.”

On the television side of the news business, as just two examples, MSNBC is attracting its largest audiences ever and CNN posted record profits in 2017.

Say what you want about President Trump, he is good for the news business.

Unfortunately, the news media’s coverage of Donald Trump has too often been riddled with errors and falsehoods.

The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who broke the Edward Snowden story in 2013 and a favorite target of the Democratic Party’s neo-liberal elites, offered in a recent article on theintercept.com a list of just some of the…