Conservatives who despise the MSM often forget that journalists are human beings, too, and one thing that journalists hate is being played for patsies.  People go into journalism in part to demonstrate their penetrating acumen, able to explain to others what really is happening.  Being played in public threatens their self-concept. The mainstream media may be populated by progressives, but there are residual pockets of professional integrity left.  There are signs that blinders may be slipping from the eyes of some at the pinnacle of MSM prestige, now that they know they have been manipulated and deceived. For example, Callum Borchers, a reporter, not an opinion journalist, for the Washington Post, called out the Hillary campaign for double-dealing after BuzzFeed first published the Steele Dossier that we now know Hillary's people paid for. When BuzzFeed published that now-infamous dossier of unproven claims about Donald...(Read Full Post)