Dear A,
With all due respect.... the statement above may well be true but watch blogs and magazines are NOT the mainstream media and their writers are not reporters. They are entirely beholden to the access given by big brands, they get wined and dined in places like Lake Como (Italy) in lavish settings Ben Clymer was proudly posting on his Instagram account. They don’t disclose any of the true inner dealings inside the companies they cover.
Wining and dining and rubbing shoulders with sources may also be true of some journalists in major media— but there are also many risking their lives and /or getting killed to report important information, consortiums of major media joining forces for massive investigations to counteract the power of shady financial networks, corrupt states and organized crime.
The discredit you are referring to may be true and sad, but I find it more interesting to understand its root causes than to fuel it.
This may sound old fashioned, but the so called “mainstream news media” still fulfill an essential role of verifying and sifting through information, and IMHo to disparage it casually endangers democracy.
Best regards,
S
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