WALSH: There Is No News Media

It’s been claimed that the news media embarrassed and discredited itself by advancing the Russian collusion conspiracy theory. I totally disagree. The news media cannot embarrass itself for the same reason that unicorns can’t embarrass themselves. A thing must exist in order to be embarrassed. The news media do not exist. There is no such thing.

The people who spent the past two years amplifying every incredible rumor about Trump and Russia, and who announced over and over again that the end was nigh for Trump, and who repeatedly used phrases like “bombshell” and “the beginning of the end” and “impeachment” when discussing the issue, are not news anchors or journalists. They are propaganda merchants, narrative crafters, agents of an ideology. And we can add one other job title to their resume: Entertainers.