The kids call it “keeping the receipts.” For far too long, media members enjoyed near-flawless opinion immunity thanks to the absence of tangible evidence proving they flat-out got it wrong.
Sure, real-time readers of the New York Post or New York Daily News a few decades ago would formulate their own opinion on the merit of the thought in print. But rarely was it possible to keep those much-needed and desired receipts organized for the world to fully realize simultaneously.
Today, not only are receipts kept, but social media accounts specifically designed to call out and/or humiliate media members also exist.