My take is that Rolling Stone at least attempts to do some investigative journalism. I don't like this to be termed 'Assange envy'.
I recently read how some newspaper praised itself for exposing that presidential wannabe despite his denials. It took them months and apparently a huge amount of work hours. This kind of effort has become rare in a media landscape that hires pundits for partisan brawling, sends its reporters into war zones as embeds (cuz it's so cheap), uses viewer-made videoclips fished out of Youtube or even directly asked fro in shows (CNN) and and and...
Regrettably, the German media landscape hasn't much investigative journalism either, but at least we have a bit less of the other superficial stuff.
40's? Really? Weren't three years of that decade soaked in wartime propaganda?
50's? Really? Weren't three or four years of them soaked in McCarthy's media whoring?
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