Beruhigungsjournalismus

Jeff Jarvis ist mit der ostentativen Gelassenheit der New York Times –

It gives me no satisfaction to say this — indeed it fills me with trepidation for the nation — but The Times is broken.

I know some of you are thinking, You only now realize this? No, I’m only now saying it. I have been criticizing The Times for its willful credulity in the face of rising fascism and its bothsidesism, but also because it is the biggest and was the best we had and I wished it to be better. Now I come to wonder whether it can be.

– und anderer etablierter US-Medien –

It is as if the editorial department at The Washington Post woke up one morning asking, in headlines I will quote below, What are we doing wrong?

I will start by trying to answer the question for them, The New York Times, CNN, and the rest of incumbent journalism:

You have refused to recognize fascism at the door. You insist on covering authoritarianism as just another side in still-symmetrical American politics.

– nicht glücklich. Vielleicht kann er sich damit trösten, dass auch europäische Leitmedien den Kampf der US-Justiz gegen einen Staatsstreich mit Überschriften wie Juristischer Gegenwind für radikale Reformen Trumps begleiten.