Impeachment proceedings used to be news of unquestionable gravity. The week showed it's just more fodder for the ideological and culture wars
Big font, double-decker headlines, home page takeovers: It’s been a big week in the news business for visual devices like these.
People below a certain age may not have first-hand experience with news events that did indeed command that reaction — and impeachment proceedings against a president unambiguously would have been one of them. It took a little more than a year from that night until February 1999, when Bill Clinton survived his impeachment by the House with a mostly party-line vote acquittal at a Senate trial. In retrospect, it seems clear what a critical moment of transition the Clinton impeachment — for that matter, the entire Clinton presidency — was in the journey to Nutsville.
There was the notion that establishment news organizations were no longer the gatekeepers of the news or what right-minded people were supposed to think about the news. Internet pioneer Matt Drudge beat the Washington Post and Newsweek to their own scoops, with sources who told him of the debate in those newsrooms about whether the story was ready to publish. These days, with social media, everyone if they wish at any hour of the day can revel in the rubble of the old MSM filter.
Trump’s case, however, shows the essential reality — the significance of a piece of news depends mostly on how it can be used as either weapon or shield in the ceaseless ideological and cultural war — applies no matter the underlying subject matter.
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