To me the issue isn’t this–this is inappropriate and frustrating but as you say, as old as the printing press and really pretty expected.
The issue I dislike is that this business aspect was at least previously restricted to the businesses that ran media–meaning that in school one was taught certain restraint and objectivity as a journalism student, as it should be. That this objectivity went out the window is disappointing but simply human nature. There has been a definite shift in the teaching of journalism away from objectivity and towards advocacy, which only worsens the problem. When one isn’t taught that objectivity is the goal it makes the barrier to breaking good journalism habits all the lower.
She didn’t misrepresent herself on the things I mentioned but people have said she did on this thread. I’m just being a stickler for the facts. They still matter to some of us.
I’d say the story of how it happened is a doozy, but the news cycle of this Presidency has kind of changed the definition of what that means to me (huge if true! lol).
I was talking with my co workers at lunch today and one of them brought up the Mooch…I mean, how crazy is it that the Mooch came and went so quickly that now I barely remember his tenure? I don’t even remember when he was “in” without looking it up.