This combination photo provided by Time magazine shows its four covers for its 2018 “Person of the Year.”
Rex Murphy, National Post: Time is wrong. Today's journalists are not 'guardians of the truth'
Contemporary journalism is frequently as wayward as the social media it deplores. It has long since given up any attempt to be objective.
Time, that tattered, shrunken revenant of a once-popular news magazine, continues in its endless decline to delude itself that it has either the authority or the competence to name the “Person of the Year.” Brilliantly it named journalists — “The Guardians” — as 2018’s collective heroes, with Jamal Khashoggi given pride of place on the once-iconic cover. Time neglected to check on Khashoggi and now finds that it nominated a Qatar stooge, whose columns were midwifed by officers in the Qatar government, and whose “journalistic” career was but a distracting pendant to his many more serious activities, latterly as an anti-Saudi lobbyist, nephew to the one-time world’s biggest arms dealer, and a host of other shadowy mésalliances. The neatest summary I have read of Khashoggi, the journalist, is: “a highly-partisan operative who worked with a handler to publish propaganda at the behest of the Emirate of Qatar … in other words, an agent of influence.”
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WNU Editor: Regular readers know that I am always skeptical of the media. I guess being exposed to years of Soviet media news reports and lies made me become that type of person. But here is a real good post from Canadian commentator Rex Murphy, who unravels it all with a blow-torch.