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Tara Henley names the media's abandonment of objectivity as the direct cause of its collapsing credibility. Once charged with reporting what is, journalists now construct what they desire the public to believe, serving the narrative demands of the managerial priesthood rather than the demands of reality.
This reversal did not occur by accident. The same forces that dissolved the ordered hierarchies of Christendom after the Reformation now press the institutions of information into service of the earthly city, replacing discovered truth with manufactured consensus.
The Realists long taught that truth exists independently of opinion and must be sought with discipline. When the press discards this standard, it ceases to be a witness and becomes an instrument of power, exactly as the City of Man requires.
Henley's diagnosis reaches the heart of the matter: the loss of trust is not a communications failure but a moral one. Objectivity demands submission to what is, a posture the modern press refuses.
Scripture and the ancient creeds alike condemn the bearing of false witness. The contemporary media's habitual inversion of this command places it in direct opposition to the Patristic and Reformed witness that once shaped the conscience of the West.
The faithful remnant cannot repair what has been deliberately broken. Parallel institutions of information must arise that once again treat truth as sovereign and reporting as stewardship.
Every household that still values its children must now choose its sources with the same rigor once applied to doctrine. The cost of continued reliance on the old press is the corruption of mind and memory alike.
Henley's work stands as a clear marker. Those who read it will recognize that the press did not drift into irrelevance; it marched there under its own banner.
