Article originally appeared on washingtonexaminer.com.
Some within the conservative media sphere celebrate the spectacular self-immolation of the legacy news media. I am not one of them, but I get it: It’s a natural reflex to cheer on the demise of an institution that hates you, thinks you’re an idiot, and works around the clock to manipulate you and your family on behalf of the corporate//Big Tech/Hollywood cultural monolith, all while feigning concern for “the truth.” The people produced by such an industry are truly loathsome in their roles. Who, for example, could help but cheer when CNN canned the monolith’s chief propagandist Brian Stelter ? Our innate hunger for justice rejoices at such moments.
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