Searching for Honest Journalists

            I have a soft spot for journalists. My dad was a journalist. He was also the most honest man I’ve ever known. The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes, who was known for holding a lantern as he walked the streets of Athens looking for an honest man, would have liked my father. But Diogenes would have a tough time today looking for honest journalists in the mainstream media. That’s because most reporters who call themselves journalists are nothing more than propagandists or political operatives. And that’s not just my opinion.

            South African Lara Logan is a celebrated freelance journalist. She has covered the news for ABC, NBC, and CNN, and was a foreign correspondent for CBS News from 2002 to 2018. She reported from Afghanistan and Iraq, and gained notoriety when she broke news stories on what really happened in Benghazi. In 2011 she was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted in Cairo while reporting on the Egyptian Revolution. She has earned her stripes and the right to speak out.

            “It is a fact that the vast majority of journalists in this country are registered Democrats,” she stated in a recent op-ed in the New York Post. She blames colleges “dominated by one political ideology,” with the result that “reporting has become so one-sided,” and “people have lost faith in journalism.” Unsurprisingly, Logan has been reviled and castigated by the mainstream media for speaking the truth.

            But she is not alone. Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times has said, “We have become political activists…and some could argue propagandists.” She recognizes that all the negative coverage of Trump all the time is a distortion of the truth.

            By speaking out against their Leftmedia colleagues, Lara Logan and Jill Abramson have committed professional suicide.

            Diogenes, meet Lara Logan and Jill Abramson.