The Seattle Times seemed almost apoplectic the other day in deploring “the debasement of reality” in “the age of Trumpism,” declaring that “lies” have become “the new currency of political discourse.”
It was a long-form screed alright, which appeared in the newspaper’s Sunday magazine. It was not unlike many otherrantswritten during the war between the press and President Donald Trump.
Journos didn’t do it
What most interested Media Myth Alert was not so much the hyperventilating as the credulous reference to the heroic-journalist myth of Watergate — that reporters brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency.
“The American press didn’t have a spotless record in the past,” the Seattle Times article asserted, adding:
“But more often than not, reporters got it right, from uncovering the ghastly conditions in slaughterhouses [presumably a reference to Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle] to forcing a president’s resignation in the Watergate scandal.”
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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