Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” by an election outcome few anticipated, and repeatedly describing the media as “the opposition party” of the current administration. “The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” Mr. Bannon said during a telephone call. “I want you to quote this,” Mr. Bannon added. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
#ICYMI BuzzFeed hires reporter to cover Trump's relationship with the media https://t.co/s8njTOF2mn
— Poynter (@Poynter) January 26, 2017
.@seanhannity says the media doesn't "get" Trump. https://t.co/BKPgJ4MPSw pic.twitter.com/B8f1kjQR2l
— TVNewser (@tvnewser) January 26, 2017
We began work on this issue with the belief that the conventional wisdom about journalism is almost certainly wrong. You know the litany: Newspapers are dying; young people are abandoning mainstream news sources for Snapchat and Twitter; talented college students are choosing different professions; journalism, at least as it has been practiced for the last century, is done. The result of all of these facts, some of which are actually true, is deemed to be stagnation and decline, a scary spiral into an unfriendly future. At CJR, that is not the world we see. For the last six months, we've gone on the hunt for dispatches from a different future of journalism, and the results are here, in what we're calling our Innovation Issue. This future is dynamic, promising, and rife with opportunity.
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