If the Media Reports and No One Is Listening ...

Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones declared recently that “all journalism is activism.” Advocacy journalism is all the rage in journalism schools and on major media platforms. ...

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The result is that the mainstream media is increasing speaking to itself and a dwindling number of viewers and readers. NPR is again a good example. ...

So we are left with the variation of a common Zen-like question: if the media reports and no one is listening, does it still make a noise?

Ed Morrissey

Turley springboards his analysis off the same AP/NORC poll I wrote about earlier this morning. He makes the same point I make about narrative journalism, but uses a more specific term, and probably the better term for it. I would have provided a longer list of examples, but really, why bother? They're all in our archives under the Media Bias tag. I don't think it's incumbent on critics to provide a list of bias and corruption in the media; it's long past time that the media start proving integrity. 

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