Posted on 02/22/2017 6:01:59 PM PST by markomalley
During a lively discussion centered on fears that President Trump is "trying to undermine the media," MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski let slip the awesome unspoken truth that the media's "job" is to "actually control exactly what people think."
(video at link)
SCARBOROUGH: "Exactly. That is exactly what I hear. What Yamiche said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talk to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters. They go, 'Yeah you guys are going crazy. He's doing -- what are you so surprised about? He is doing exactly what he said he is going to do.'"
BRZEZINSKI: "Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job."
As grabien points out, the comment failed to raise any eyebrows from her co-panelists. Instead, her co-host, Joe Scarborough, said that Trump's media antagonism puts him on par with Mussolini and Lenin...
Well they’ve succeeded.
We all think those who work for MSNBC are assholes.
I’d hate to think the way that airhead thinks.
Those must be the new talking points she was instructed to be ready for, since we have a Republican administration. She let the cat out of the bag.
They are a couple, if not married yet, soon will be
Our Job is to Tell MSNBC to take a HIKE!
Miki Bezerkley will have to address this tomorrow, its gone viral. 10 to 1, “I misspoke, that is not what I meant”
Miki Bezerkley will have to address this tomorrow, its gone viral. 10 to 1, “I misspoke, that is not what I meant”
Dear Mika:
Thank you for your forthright honesty.
Now go jump in a lake (polite, self-censored version of my thoughts).
No you stupid Bit*h, it’s to report the news!
If their goal is to control what we think then they have failed miserbly and perhaps they need to explain how Trump got elected.
“Considering that there were no News people until a little before the U.S. was created, that is a bit of a stretch.”
What is a stretch is how you got that out of my quote. Let me rephrase it: News people (journalists), and other names they’ve gone by over the course of history, have been lying to the public not just long before the USA was ever thought of, but before North America was ever discovered by the Europeans.
I did not limit my statement to news papers.
Here’s a fairly good history of news:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News
Now I do not have any links proving news people have been lying all along, but if I dig deep enough, I could probably find a source telling of the ancient Romans or Egyptians putting out propaganda.
The MSM's jumped the shark...
Sure, official propagandists for governments have lied forever.
But they are not what most would consider “news” people.
As for “News people” lying, yes it has gone on as long as there has been people conveying information.
There is an enormous difference between questioning travelers about what they know, and mass media.
I was trying to make the point that mass media is a different animal, and is what most people think of when they think of “news people”.
We are probably not too far off in our understanding, but I think a significant threshold was reached and changed when literacy become widespread and mass media was born.
CNN, FIRE HER.
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