{"id":218249,"date":"2017-01-19T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=218249"},"modified":"2017-01-20T16:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:20:57","slug":"professor-advises-journalists-in-age-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/19\/professor-advises-journalists-in-age-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Advises Journalists in Age of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I found this at one of the tech blogs. I\u2019m not gonna tell you which one, doesn\u2019t matter, \u2019cause I don\u2019t want the attention to focus on the blogs.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all anti-Trump, pro-Obama, pro-leftist, insanely so, without any critical thinking involved. And one of these blogs decided to do a podcast with a New York University journalism professor named Jay Rosen. And his appearance on this podcast was to advise journalists in Washington how to deal now with the Trump reality. What is the future of journalism? I always find this amazing. I thought journalism was journalism. You find out what\u2019s happening that other people don\u2019t know and you tell them.<\/p>\n

\"\"But it obviously isn\u2019t that. Journalism is about moving the Democrat Party agenda, and since that failed — journalism failed to move the Democrat Party agenda, journalism failed to destroy the Republican Party, journalism failed to destroy Donald Trump — journalism failed, failed, failed, failed, failed at everything they wanted to accomplish. And so they now need to rethink journalism. Let \u2019em, folks. The more they\u2019re in the wilderness on this, the better. But let me give you some excerpts of what this guy said.<\/p>\n

“In order for the press to recover some authority so that what it says about Trump makes a difference…” Well, now think about what\u2019s behind that, just that little sentence there. They\u2019re admitting, this guy, Jay Rosen, NYU journalism — admitting — they failed to take Trump out, they did everything they know how to do. They did everything that has always worked to destroy Republicans, but it didn\u2019t work against Trump! So they need to “recover some authority” so that what they say “makes a difference.”<\/p>\n

“‘In order for the press to recover some authority, so that what it says … makes a difference, I think journalists have to conduct an extraordinary act of listening that they\u2019ve never tried to do before,\u2019 Rosen said. ‘What I mean by listening is not asking people why they voted for Trump or asking them what they don\u2019t like about media.\u2019 Rather, he said, journalists need to prove that they understand their audiences\u2019 troubles better than the politicians do. That sets the stage for critical, investigative reporting into how those leaders are governing.”<\/p>\n

So journalists are supposed to go out there and start talking to the downtrodden, and the defeated — the hungry, the thirsty, the homeless — and become experts in understanding those problems, they become better experts than politicians are. That way they could do critical investigative reporting on how the politicians are screwing up. Isn\u2019t that what they do anyway? They do everything but study. I mean, they presume to know. “And that\u2019s just the ‘starting point.'” Oh, yeah! That\u2019s just the starting point.<\/p>\n

“[J]ournalists need to redefine their relationship with audiences. ‘Ditching the “view from nowhere,” or the “voice of God,” and instead saying, “Here\u2019s where we\u2019re coming from” would be very good,\u2019 Rosen said. ‘The second thing journalists should do is make it clear: Yeah, we\u2019re coming from somewhere, but we\u2019ve done our reporting. We\u2019ve talked to a lot of people. We looked at the documents. We dug up information.'”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And then he said, “I don\u2019t think the people interviewing Kellyanne Conway know why they are doing that,” and they should stop. Kellyanne Conway should no longer be interviewed. “‘The journalistic logic of it is growing dimmer with every interview.\u2019 That\u2019s because Conway goes beyond spin. Frequently, Trump\u2019s and Conway\u2019s statements to the press will directly contradict one another,” and so this professor says, just stop talking to her. “‘The logic is, this is a representative of the president,\u2019 Rosen said. ‘This is somebody who can speak for the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

“But if we find that what Kellyanne Conway says is routinely or easily contradicted by Donald Trump, then that rationale disappears.\u2019 ‘Another reason to interview Kellyanne Conway is, our viewers want to understand how the Trump world thinks,\u2019 he added. ‘But if the end result of an interview is more confusion about what the Trump world thinks, then that rationale evaporates'” for talking to Kellyanne Conway.<\/p>\n

“‘Just be real about it and say, “This isn\u2019t actually of journalistic value,”‘ he said. ‘”It has a different value and that\u2019s why we\u2019re putting it on the air.” Just don\u2019t pretend that this is a normal interview, with the normal rationale.'” In other words, don\u2019t interview effective Trump spokespeople. It\u2019s not helping anything, it\u2019s not furthering any purpose. It\u2019s not helping us become authoritative on who Trump is so that people believe what we say about him. Our problem is that people like hearing what Kellyanne Conway says about Trump.<\/p>\n

So you need to stop talking to her. That\u2019s the advice Mr. Rosen is giving to journalists on a tech blog podcast. And by the way, the tech blog people think this is the greatest thing they\u2019ve ever heard. They\u2019re out hyping this. “Oh, this is magnificent! This is miraculous! This is brilliant!” We really have nothing in common with these people, folks. Values, definitions, worldview, nothing. It\u2019s striking.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This Rosen guy, journalism professor at New York University is advising journalists (paraphrased), “You need to let your audiences know who you are. You need to let them know where you\u2019re coming from.” No, you don\u2019t. We have known where you\u2019re coming from for 35 or more years. We\u2019ve known every objective you\u2019ve had. Your best idea is to keep trying to fool us, because we know who you are and where you\u2019re coming from. In fact, do you know what would shock us more than anything is if they start doing their job.<\/p>\n

That would give us pause. We would think, “What\u2019s wrong? What\u2019s in the water? Have they been poisoned?” if they actually started doing their jobs. If there was just one day, one day of total media objectivity from all the networks, tell me, you wouldn\u2019t know what to do with it, you would suspect a conspiracy. You would think you\u2019re being set up for something. You\u2019d think a trick is being played on you. That\u2019s how bad it is: If they did their jobs, you\u2019d be more suspicious than ever. (laughing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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