“. . . framing the independent media as an anti-national . . .”
The mainstream media in both the U.S. and India are not independent. They are bought and paid for by liberal/leftist/commie/Marxist/Islamic/Muslim/globalist entities. They are not “free press” either.
I guess Mr. Tharoor hasn’t spent the last 45+ years reading the NY Times and Wash. Post or he would have shot himself because of the openly, blatant leftwing bias that both newspapers have shown.
Accuracy In Media was born to fight both papers for bias over the writings from the Vietnam war (not all of which were bad, but the ones that were slanted were). Over the decades, the NYT has slide into a Little Pinch Marxist hate-fest of America, only to be joined by the totally blatant far-left bias of the Wash. Post on a daily basis.
Since I don’t read the NY Times much anymore, I won’t say that everything is bad because a few of the writers/articles have been very objective and information.
However, with the Wash. Post, I’ve noticed a shift from their usual anti-conservative, cover up for the communists smear and disinformation writing (from editorials, articles, columns, the Metro section columnists, the Arts/Culture Style section and even in the Sports section), to a position of sheer vitriol and 24 hour non-stop smear jobs against conservatives, anti-jihadists and immigration reform individuals and organization.
I have never seen anything like this in my almost 50 years of journalism (I covered Vietnam/Cambodia/ Congress, street demonstration, the PLO Lobby in the US, communist movements in the US, and media bias as both a card-carrying reporter and a columnist).
Sane rhetoric by Post reporters and columnists has gone from “it comes with the territory” writing to rants and smears that would make the Marquis de Sade and Charlie Manson seem sane. Everything is now “far-right, Alt-Right (whatever the hell that is), extremists, mysoginistic, homophobic, xenophobic, racist, anti-Semitic, and words I didn’t even know existed. I threw out my dictionary because I couldn’t find some of their words in it.
The shrillness of their banshee-like screeching-writings is a 100 times greater than that of someone dragging 3 inch nails across a slate blackboard.
The Inquisition of conservatives by the Post is on the same scale of lunacy as the Spanish Inquisition was. I sometimes wonder if Torquemado was made the editor of both the news and editorial desks. And the letters to the editor reduce the supposed educational level of DC area residents to that of a writers group in an insane asylum.
Rational, logical, and factual thought have gone down the crapper to be replaced by LSD-laced comments that are often rebutted by the writer in the same letter (or article/column).
The facts of history are often totally ignored, either by ignorance of it, or deliberately in order to propagate their views. Unsubstantiated “disinformation” is used instead of cited sources and provable “facts”.
In reading old Soviet theoretical publications and propaganda publications, I’m struck by the overwhelming similarity between what the NYT and WP editorials and some columns have.
I feel as though I’ve gotten into the “Wayback Machine” and travelled back to Stalin’s 1930’s and 40’s, or Hitler’s attacks on everyone in the 1930’s.
The “Big Lie”, the anonymous source, the distortions of history, the twisting of facts and the use of words to destroy other Americans is, to me, unparalleled in modern American history. And with the Soros, Clintons, and Obama “shadow groups and government” emerging from the political sewers of the Democrat Party/Marxist Left, it is only going to get worse.
When you read one of their articles on “climate change”, “global warming”, etc., and see the words of their writers or from the studies they are quoting that say, “maybe”, “probably”, “possibly”, “modeling”, and “potentially”, you know that real science and scientific facts have been flushed down the Middle Ages hole of ignorance that punished Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, and those whole believed that the earth revolved around the sun, and that the earth was round.
And the Left Media is just warming up, with some waiting for their George Soros blood money to get them up and running like the Marxist propaganda machines and hatemongering “yellow journalists” that many of them are.
Will the last honest journalist turn off the printers and the lights because we are heading towards a new “Dark Ages” of media bias, ignorance and disinformation that is going to make the past 50 years seem like a paradise.
Independent media? The DNC / MSN is anything but.
I just came off reading an AP hit piece on the Trump hotel, a new development opening in Vancouver, totally negative, pushing the line that it’s not enough to turn the control of the hotel to Trump’s sons, it still violates the emoluments clause, article states the values Trump espouses against immigrants are not Canadian values, reiterates old charges he makes comments against Mexicans and women, etc. It made me turn to the Lord in prayer, the liberal global establishment will give it their all to bring Trump down, I’m praying to God for His protection over the Trump administration and conservative values worldwide. This constant anti-Trump narrative is why many of the anti-Trump posters on social media have become so obnoxious that they’ve ruined many formerly enjoyable chat threads, small groups, professional associations. I’m pulling back on a number of them.
“supposedly liberal and elitist media”.
Supposedly? Supposedly!?
The guy’s a moron. No other way to put it. Actually there is.
Retard. Delusional fool. Imbecile. Idiot.
Politicians no longer need the Media. They now can go directly to the People.
Soon we will be able to vote on any given issue.
FAke News.......more about it......its weaponized media....deesigned to kill the target through subterfuge, innuendo and lies.
Weaponized media=fake news.
That cannot be constitutionally protected for the press. Its not a free speech issue. Its literally the press crying “fire” in a crowded theater when there is no fire. Weaponized media can never be protected speech.
As President Trump says, that makes the purveyors of fake news the enemy of the People.