ORIGINAL: obvert
It's interesting you've included a handful of unsubstantiated reports over the past, what, 60 years? [:D]
The piece about the NY Times in 2016 is actually quite telling. To me that says there is a real intent on the part of the best journalism to self-regulate and call out non-objective reporting. Good on him. Takes courage to do that. Thanks for mentioning.
"Unsubstantiated"???? CBS FIRED Dan Rather at the height of his commercial success. Why do you think THAT happened? The alleged National Guard letter was proven forgery. How else could you have a font not invented for two decades after the letter was allegedly written??? You have blinders on, man.
As for 50 years...well, every example except JFK was from the last three Presidencies. I merely included JFK as an example of egregious press whitewashing.
As for the NYT, one shouldn't need the Editor writing an apology piece AFTER a two year election cycle telling his own journalists to be more unbiased. Objectivity is a prime ethical duty. They all took an ethics class. The piece was ONLY written because Trump won. He needed to claw back some credibility.His own readers were angry at him for failing to warn them. [:D] It's pointless. You say there are no examples I cite a few in a two minute post from memory and you call the firing of Dan Rather "unsubstantiated". Guess what there is no film of the Titanic hitting the iceberg either.
; Julia Child