What Jeffrey Goldberg Gets Wrong On 'Newsroom Decay'

I wasn’t expecting Jeffrey Goldberg of all people to be advocating for a massive reduction in the size of government, but I’m happy to see him advocating for America to return to its libertarian roots. However, “newsroom decay” (a phrase written by CNN alum Oliver Darcy in his headline, not Goldberg) happens in a variety of ways, not just in shrinking the quantity of the manpower inside of the newsroom.

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Another leading cause are weak editors who let their young uber-woke, and very emotionally brittle staffers wag the dog, and that’s something that Goldberg knows quite a bit about. 

Ed Morrissey

Goldberg looks at decay strictly from a headcount perspective. The decay is qualitative first and then quantitative. Newsrooms began decaying when news outlets began replacing apprenticeships with college degrees, and then abandoned editorial balance in favor of social-justice narratives and advocacy. Readers rejected the propaganda, which created the financial issues that necessitated the headcount reductions. 

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