the writer jack shafer, that wounded and limping, doubting its own future. american journalism seems to be losing a quality that carried it through a century and a halfa of trials. its swagger wounded and the limping. sounds like they're describing one of kristi noem dogs. >> and that's it. describand but earth to legacyy you stop crying now it's over and you lost bigly. you're less truste ove d than week old tuna salad. safer's point is that journalism become too timid. t but his real purpose seems to be a call to action for his his fellow reporters to get tougherterr. so >> sorry, brian stelter. can't even do a girl push up st >> now, schaffer goes on to claim that there are a few approved journalists there with swagger, but apparently its definition of swagge appr is writers who despise half the country. because, of coursey hi, they'ree either left or far left. eie listele is a bit lik listen to your grandfather reminisce about the crazy days of his youthnireminisc while wa around the old age home with the back of his hospital or i opeh ckn. or if we're t

days are the characters would be drummed out of the first newsroom they applied to by people like jack shafer talking about the hard drinking, hard charging grizzled white dudes who were abrasive, obnoxious and politically incorrect think lee marvin but with a typewriter. dinosaurs who founded the country but now are designated bonduau villains. if ben franklin were alive today he would be in hr lectured by a nonbinary care and because no women signed the declaration of independence. really what shafer is mad about is that the media is no longer seen as heroes. he writes thanks in part to a fallen status as well as ever irrational attacks from politicians like trump today's journalists experience ridicule and harassment at public events like rallies and demonstrations. troop they are like jill meade in high school so let's get this straight for brian she says. you sold us a years long lie on a russian collusion and try to convince us a laptop obviously genuine was with fake you cheers l'affaire against the leading presidential candidate now you cry because trump doesn't like you because the r

if we didn't do polling and media crit jack shafer pointed this out a yor awe suddenly bang and rid of need impressionistic observations like? okay, how many yard signs are there out there? well, count the yard signs for for one candidate or another or. maybe we should co number of people who show up at a rally and see if that's ■ñ way to to judge support for a■■7 candidat. or maybe we just send people out, journalists into the street andsl journalism, which is which is a fine way to many years, but it's no substitute for signs, nor is counting audience sizes. so polling is is is an attempt to get a representative sample of what's going on in the country at a particular moment in9fime. now, it's often called a snapshot in time. am r impatient with that characterization because given number of polls, we have those snapshots arrayed together are going to give us a something. they tell us important things as to ahead, who's behind and why and i think that's very important to to understand that. sookay. so fine. if you want to wait until election day choice but i think it's also important

if we didn't do polling and media critic jack shafer pointed this out a year or two ago, if we suddenly banned the polling and rid of polling, what would we be left with? we'd be left with impressionistic observations. well, what do need impressionistic observations like? okay, how many yard signs are there out there? well, count the yard signs for for one candidate or another or. maybe we should count the number of people who show up at a rally and see if that's the way to to judge support for a candidate. or maybe we just send people out, journalists into the street and do shoe leather journalism, which is which is a fine way to find pursuits. it's been done for many years, but it's no substitute for polling nor is counting yard signs, nor is counting audience sizes. so polling is is is an attempt to get a representative sample of what's going on in the country at a particular moment in time. now, it's often called a snapshot in time. i am really impatient with that characterization because given number of polls, we have those snapshots arrayed together are going to give us a panorama