No News Is Good News Depends on whose ox is being gored. Hmmm

"Elite Press Offers Readers On How To Avoid News of President Trump"by Ira Stroll, New York Sun, March 27th

"A New York times travel article about Hawaii carries a sub headline describing the journey "as a desperate attempt to escape the news." The Times Sunday etiquette column lead with a question from a reader, who wrote in a letter that began, "Lately I've been feeling depressed about the news, so I decided to avoid it."

The Times technology columnist , Farhad Manjoo, wrote a column on how he spent an entire week in which he didn't read, watch, listen to a single story about anything having to do with our 45th president".

A times shopping column about a store that sells men's pajamas at prices starting at $266 a pair includes this complaint from the work-home journalist who wrote it: "the house no longer feels like such a safe space." There are CNN an all the other stations on my TV, alerts from the New York Times and the Washington Post on my phone screen. "Anxiety is persistent. "

The president of the American Enterprise Institute, Arthur Brooks, wrote a New York times op-ed piece under the headline, " Depressed by politics? Just Let Go."....

It all amounts to a statement about journalism today. The press has gotten away from its traditional job of just telling readers what the news is. Its new ,self-appointed role involves advising people how they should feel about the news and how to get away from it.

In doing so, the Times discloses a certain set of assumption about the ideological uniformity of its own readership. After all , there may have been some Americans who could have used all this advise about dealing with news-related anxiety and depression during the Obama Administration.
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