Posted on 10/01/2016 5:59:49 PM PDT by MtnClimber
If this year’s presidential election has a silver lining, it is the final demise of “mainstream media.” Which is not to say that liberal media are going away; they aren’t, of course. But liberal media’s claim to being mainstream–reliable, objective, fair, unlike fringe or partisan news sources–is gone forever. That is a good thing.
No one could follow this year’s campaign without understanding that the media formerly known as mainstream (sorry, Prince) have jettisoned any pretense of neutrality, or even of journalistic integrity, in their desperation to preserve the status quo by electing Hillary Clinton president. Fair enough. We know where they stand.
One of the last vestiges of liberal media’s pretense to authority is its legion of “fact checkers.” “Fact checkers” like PolitiFact, the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler and others purport to rule judiciously on claims made by candidates of both parties. In fact, as those who pay attention have long known, “fact checking,” in pretty much all cases, is just liberal activism under another name
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It is amazing the lengths the “mainstream media” will go to convince their audience the story they are peddling is true.
We need to stop calling them mainstream, they are anything but.
They are the Ministry of Propaganda and they are propagandists.
Tell them to their faces.
I like “Ministry of Propaganda” that you mentioned.
The MSM has peed away any credibility it once had.
Consider this in your voting decision-making process
Am Thinker ^ | Sept 30, 2016 | Jim Waurishuk
Donald Trump is being ripped apart in the news, the mainstream media, and the liberal left nonstop for being a private American citizen like most of us. Yet Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the criminals occupying our government are not.
The mainstream media is the Democratic Party. Stop listening to them and allowing them to influence your thinking with their Goebbels-Stalinist-Alinskyite propaganda. Stop being brainwashed, and start thinking for yourself, as an individual, as a private citizen, as a concerned American – about the Constitution, your country, your and your family’s and your children’s future, about America.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3475480/posts?page=1
Sarah Palin’s word for them, for a long time, has been “Lamestream.”
They need to be called exactly what they are...
Democrat Party Operatives
The MSM has been dead to me for over 25 years.
And yet any story that is reported here as news generally has to be from one of those mainstream media sources in order to be comsidered credible. Other sources go to the black hole of chat. Because politico, msnbc, cbs, and the rest are so much more reliable than some random blog I guess.
The LSM has power because we give it to them.
Nah....not Ministry of Propaganda.
They are simply run of the mill DemocRAT Party operatives lying about being “journalists” to advance the DemcoRAT party and it’s agenda.
TO say they are the Ministry of....imparts a certain legitimacy they do not deserve. They are DemocRAT Party apparatchiks, period.
I openly mock them when I see them out and about. You should see them seethe when laughingly I point out they they are in debt up to their ears, don’t know s#!t, they can’t write or think coherently, and don’t get paid dick and are overpaid at that. Those exact works BTW.
Unfortunately, that remains to be seen.
When they lost in 2004, they decided to up their game. They haven't lost since.
And they don't intend to lose this year.
Unfortunately, that remains to be seen.
When they lost in 2004, they decided to up their game. They haven't lost since.
And they don't intend to lose this year.
It’s actually quite shocking to watch.... CNN in particular which may as well be called “Non-stop coverage of DDT (Disparage Donald Trump)...... where reporters and commentators need not worry if there is absolutely no truth and facts to support anything they say.
They are not going away. The MSM does not believe in any rules of the marketplace ie: “Customer Service” forget it; “Make a Profit” Not necessary (profit is nasty); “Cut your losses” you must be kidding. No, the MSM will be around because they are not a business, they are a weapon.
I hope this is true. I’m sick and tired of being lied to by a media that think I’m stupid enough to believe them. Every time I look at an editorial page, it’s an insult. And the so-called “news” pages are just as bad.
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