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July 23, 2014

The reality is that we have no mainstream “conservative” media, at all,

nor could have under the conditions the retired Pope Benedict described under the phrase,
“the dictatorship of relativism.” What we have, as soi-disant “conservative,” is instead “populist” — at several levels of dignity, mostly crass tabloid. And, the pomposity of journalists who wish to appropriate the higher-brow term, to give themselves the appearance of modest elevation above the moral and intellectual mire.
On news judgement : Essays in Idleness

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 23, 2014 2:10 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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