Newspaper journalism has decided it’s found a fix for its woes: ProPublica. What is ProPublica? you ask. Just a conglomeration of left-wing foundations, media has-beens, and Democratic suck-ups. You know, the mainstream journalism establishment. They’re all excited about the “investigative” journalism that this lash up will produce. But will it help? Not according to one astute observer:
But aren’t these exactly the same people who are responsible for newspapers’ declining fortunes in the first place? And, isn’t this the same formula that is no longer working? Isn’t this the same monolithic, center-left crowd that continues to deny that the mainstream media are biased, despite the claims of a landslide two-thirds of Americans? Can’t we predict with absolute certainty that in the run-up to the election, ProPublica might as well be called AntiRepublican — that its so-called nonpartisan investigations will remarkably avoid Democrats, while delivering precise, last minute hits on Republicans, as we have come to expect from mainstream media? You know, like the 1992 Bush I-sinking, weekend-before-the-election leak of the Iran-Contra indictment of Caspar Weinberger, the 2000 nearly Bush II-sinking, weekend-before-the-election exposure of a 24-year-old drunk-driving arrest, and the 2004 Dan Rather-sinking misfire involving forged documents.
Hammer, meet head of nail.
