I forget when I first saw subject newsperson(SOBNP) on TV News, but I think it was about the same time Obama ran for President, the first time. The term BREAKING NEWS which seemed to appear as the lead in to everything SOBNP said. She created a lot of other words as well like:
BIAS, the art spinning every political news item to fit SOBNP’s network and personal partisanship.
IMAGING, the planning and posing one’s self to appear as something they aren’t. I cannot get the picture of SOBNP standing bravely at the open ramp at the back of a C-130(I think) in flight(I think), hair blowing, goggles on, dressed like Diana walking through the minefields. I was eating dinner at the time and had to excuse myself, I was laughing so hard. Talk about smoke and mirrors.
TALKING POINTS, the careful and faithful regurgitation of party line handed down from on-high(Oval Office). “We take the high road”, E Pluribus Milium, comes to mind. “Hunter is innocent”. you know stuff like that.
I imagine there is a difference between stepping aside, and stepping down, or away, so I think that the biased influence will continue on. I grew up with Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, and my absolute favorite Peter Jennings. Never did I think about bias when I watched these men, the only bias I can think they might have had was reporting the news without malice, side-taking and talking points. Certainly there was imaging. Cronkite, the wise elderly gentlemen hooked on facts; Brokaw, halfway between Walter and Peter and Jennings, the hip, handsome vendor of truth and sincerity.
I long for those days of truthful newscasting, but I fear they are gone forever.
