[no_butterscotch]

Yes, journalists used to speak truth to power.

Now they work on behalf of the power.

And they don't just work on behalf of power, they are power themselves, and it isn't the people's power despite their claim to being "the voice of the people".

[mcpackieh]

> Yes, journalists used to speak truth to power.

How do you know that? Certainly it happened sometimes, and it still happens sometimes, but was it ever common? Maybe journalists like to tell stories about the times journalists did really good work and they deliberately leave out all the many more times they didn't. Media tropes of principled gumshoe journalists breaking important stories are probably not representative of what it was typically like.

[avgcorrection]

> Yes, journalists used to speak truth to power.

So people say. If you don’t trust journalists then why should you trust their history telling about the-way-things-were?