{"id":20177,"date":"2018-06-19T14:15:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T18:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/?p=20177"},"modified":"2018-06-19T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T19:05:25","slug":"journalism-is-dead-dialogue-is-dead-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2018\/06\/journalism-is-dead-dialogue-is-dead-rip.html","title":{"rendered":"Journalism is Dead \/ Dialogue is Dead (RIP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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I used to love David Brinkley<\/a>, Ted Koppel<\/a> (Nightline<\/em><\/a>), MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour<\/a><\/em>, and above all, Tim Russert<\/a>. I also liked Jeff Greenfield<\/a> a lot. That\u2019s how [the 90% or more who are] liberal journalists used<\/em> to be: calling it straight: not being deliberate agents of propaganda for the Democrat Party and far left ideology. In other words, they were engaged in classical journalism, the way it was in the past: seeking the facts, being fair-minded and accurate. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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They could be respected and listened to. I loved all these guys. Before Fox News<\/em> or the show Crossfire<\/em><\/a> it was all we could watch (they all included conservative commentators who were treated respectfully and cordially). I chose the best journalists among the political liberals who overwhelmingly dominated broadcast journalism and it was the people listed above.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Those days are gone with the wind now. Now Big Media (CBS \/ NBC \/ ABC \/ MSNBC \/ CNN) is a relentless assault against the intelligence of anyone even remotely conservative.\u00a0<\/span>Big Media journalism (and with it, journalism as a whole) died almost exactly ten years ago. It was on June 13, 2008, when Tim Russert died.<\/div>\n
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Thankfully, Fox News<\/em> now preserves the old journalistic ethos, with straight \u201cfair and balanced\u201d (just as they claim!) reporting and \u201ceditorial\u201d commentators (like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham) who are openly conservative and not pretending to be neutral or not what they actually are. All sides are regularly presented. It\u2019s not an immediate insult to one\u2019s intelligence, like all the other networks now are (with the possible exception of PBS). Bret Baier and Chris Wallace are now the closest thing to what Tim Russert used to represent: straight, fair news reporting. And by the way, if I were a political liberal (which I haven\u2019t been since 1982), I\u2019d be even more<\/em> infuriated and embarrassed that this rotgut is what is now representing my<\/em> side.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Likewise, dialogue died (if we are to choose a date) on April 8, 2016, when Amoris Laetitia<\/em> was released and constructive discussion about Pope Francis became almost literally impossible. Now (generalizing, but still . . .) even Catholics<\/em> can\u2019t dialogue with each other anymore, unless they are clones or joined at the hip. Everyone is safe in their little echo chambers, and never the twain shall meet.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At the same time, Donald Trump was wrapping up the Republican nomination, and intelligent discussion about him was already virtually impossible as well [see my many articles about him on my Political web page<\/a>].\u00a0<\/span>Since then we have been blessed with the twin maladies and scourges of Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome<\/em> <\/a>and Trump Derangement Syndrome<\/em><\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Because I have congenial, serious discussions on my blog and Facebook page, between competing viewpoints, it\u2019s become necessary to start avoiding certain hot-button topics, due to the inability of folks to talk to each other in a civil, substantive fashion.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I gave up trying to discuss \/ dialogue about Pope Francis<\/a> two months and a week ago now [see the 120 articles<\/a> where I have defended him]. I\u2019ve only written two exception-to-the-rule articles since then (one in response to Karl Keating\u2019s book, The Francis Feud<\/em><\/a>, where he mentioned me about 99 times, as one of the folks who defended the Holy Father: against \u2014 primarily \u2014 Phil Lawler<\/a>). I could hardly not<\/em> respond to that<\/em>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Now I\u2019ve almost decided to cease writing about (or, more accurately, attempting to discuss<\/em>) President Trump at all, for the same reason: the rampant Trump Derangement Syndrome<\/em> makes any discussion between pro-Trump and anti-Trump folks impossible. I wrote late last night:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I\u2019m trying to do less political posts, folks, I really am. But there\u2019s just so much asinine, ridiculous stuff that needs to be debunked, that I can\u2019t resist at times.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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Given the nature of Big Liberal Media these days, it\u2019s virtually a weekly occurrence. The current Lie of the Week is this stuff [about Trump supposedly wanting to separate children from their parents<\/a>].<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Prior to the present Big Lie, we had the astonishingly hypocritical and hyper-absurd liberal reaction to Trump\u2019s amazing diplomacy with North Korea<\/a>. I refuse to be part of the mania and hysterics. So you will be seeing very little here about Pope Francis, and (I hope) almost as little about President Trump, too (though I can\u2019t make an absolute promise).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Rational discussion is impossible<\/em> regarding either person. And if it\u2019s not possible<\/em>, then I don\u2019t participate<\/em>, since irrational, hysterical, facts-be-damned, \u201cwhoever disagrees with me is evil\u201d, fanatical discussion (rampant with conspiratorialism and flat-out lies; made-up \u201cfacts\u201d) accomplishes exactly nothing, and in fact, does great harm in many ways.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nevertheless, despite the current ludicrous situation, I continue to try to find common cause and areas of agreement<\/a> with anyone (including on the vexed immigration issue<\/a> and with the \u201cnew pro-life movement\u201d<\/a> as well). It\u2019s getting tougher and tougher all the time to even achieve\u00a0that<\/em>, since so few people are willing to talk to and find common ground with anyone significantly different in opinion from themselves (and because it takes two<\/em> willing partners to engage in any dialogue). But I\u2019m a stubborn idealist (a thing that used<\/em> to widely typify liberals), so I\u2019ll keep trying, no doubt driving myself nuts till I depart this mortal coil . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo credit:<\/strong>\u00a0Real journalist Tim Russert (1950-2008) broadcasting live, a day before the\u00a0New Hampshire primary election. Photograph by Dan Pinard (1-7-08)\u00a0[Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \/\u00a0\u00a0Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0Attribution 2.0 Generic<\/a>\u00a0license]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I used to love David Brinkley, Ted Koppel (Nightline), MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, and above all, Tim Russert. I also liked Jeff Greenfield a lot. That\u2019s how [the 90% or more who are] liberal journalists used to be: calling it straight: not being deliberate agents of propaganda for the Democrat Party and far left ideology. 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Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. 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