The news business and journalism should never be ruled by public demand. And the best moments of journalism aren't. If memory serves me, the Woodward and Bernstein stories about Nixon did not start to a captive audience. It took time. And if journalists do their job, as some have been, and continue to expose Trump's corruption, it will happen again.
If there's one problem that irks me about journalism today as opposed to when I was in journalism school 50 years ago (yes, that's true), it's a lack of judgment. It seems to me that everything is reported literally note-for-note, which is what allows Trump's stupid crap on Truth Social (what a false name that is) to get repeated endlessly. On the other hand, though, a "president" who relies on name calling because he know it'll get widely distributed by the news media is not a leader, but a child.
And opinion pieces, as much as you disagree with them, aren't journalism in and of themselves (though they can be the subject of news stories, depending ...).
Yeah, I know, it can be hard to discern what's what these days. That's where the real journalists come in.
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