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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If journalists actually practiced journalism, there would be no place for people like Rufo, who isn't a true journalist.

We used to have a media corp that did their jobs, held people in power to account.  But, that is not true today.

The majority of the journalists today are liberal, that is indisputable.  Seems as if far too many of them view their jobs as protecting Democrats at the expense of reporting news or doing investigative journalism.  [/quote]

Rufo is an example of a modern muckraker.  They have their purpose as part of the journalistic establishment.  From the Wikipedia entry:

While cautioning about possible pitfalls of keeping one's attention ever trained downward, "on the muck", Teddy Roosevelt emphasized the social benefit of investigative muckraking reporting, saying:

There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.

— Theodore Roosevelt[/quote]

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