By now, it’s a familiar and undisputed story. Journalism was once the profession of working-class people, unglamorous and interested in just reporting facts. Then came Watergate and Woodward and Bernstein in the 1970s. Journalism was suddenly considered sexy. The profession became overrun with elites who badly slanted their stories to push the narrative of liberalism. As a result, they lost readers. And now the legacy media are dying.
It’s all true. Still, in 2024 we seem to have reached a dramatic tipping point where the far-left Fourth Estate finally comes crashing down. Sports Illustrated is shutting down. The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times are losing millions every week and laying off reporters. CNN has no audience. Pitchfork, Jezebel, Gawker? Toast.
