Ralph Peters takes stock of the “citizens of the world“:

In place of the old healthy skepticism, we have arrogant cynicism. The highest echelons of the media and government became preserves for America’s most-privileged. An Ivy League degree was the ticket to a reporting job on a major daily. And incest produced the usual ugly results.
“Mainstream” newspapers lost touch with American workers because the new breed of journalists didn’t know any workers.
After journalists became matinee idols, every bright young reporter had a new career goal. Forget honest, get-at-the-facts reporting. Henceforth the crowning ambition in the field was to bring down a president