Posted on 06/03/2017 11:35:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed upon the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. ... The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primary traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly from his teachings. ... He was the commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the State. .
“In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the top of their voices in an effort to drown (Goldstein’s) maddening bleating voice that came from the screen.”
Thus did George Orwell in his brilliant “1984” describe the officially mandated daily ritual by which Big Brother inoculated the masses against dangerous counterrevolutionary thoughts and beliefs. Hate Goldstein, love Big Brother, follow the Party line. Or else.
As I watch the mainstream media’s unhinged and semi-hysterical denunciations of President Trump, I cannot help but draw comparisons to Orwell’s prophetic novel. But compared with Trump, Goldstein got off easy. After all, what’s two minutes of daily hate compared with the mainstream media’s 24-hour nonstop barrage of anonymously sourced reports that seek to diminish, delegitimize and undermine Trump’s presidency.
Given that a tidal wave of long-ignored, much-abused and very angry voters sent Trump to wrest control of the federal government from the immutable and permanent Washington establishment, it should be expected that those politicians, lobbyists and entrenched bureaucrats who have so much to lose are using every tool and tactic at their disposal to neutralize him. And not least among those tools are the mainstream media, which feast at the same establishment table.
The media dysfunction has become so notorious and embarrassingly apparent that no less than the Shorenstein Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has released a study that concludes the coverage of Trump’s first 100 days in office by 10 major American and European news organizations has “set a new standard for negativity.”
In no single week did Trump’s coverage “drop below 70 percent negative and it reached 90 percent at its peak.” By contrast, President Barack Obama’s negative coverage was a mere 41 percent.
Not all outlets were equal in their treatment of the president. According to the study, the respective coverages by the Washington Post and The New York Times were 83 and 87 percent negative, respectively, while NBC and CNN tied for first place with an awe-inspiring 93 percent negative coverage.
These statistics come as no surprise. As the public relations department for Washington’s progressive establishment, the mainstream media long ago forfeited any credible pretense of independence or objectivity. What is remarkable, however, is the extent to which the mainstream media have so nakedly and unapologetically debased themselves in their desperate efforts to undo the results of the 2016 election.
So it is that our airwaves, internet and front pages have been flooded with unsupported and unverifiable breathless accounts of purported nefarious deeds by which Trump and the Russians stole the election from the establishment’s anointed president in exile, Hillary Clinton. In doing so, the media have descended to a level of unintended self-parody not seen since the days of the fabulous Baghdad Bob, who so famously shouted into the television cameras that America’s invasion of Iraq had been repulsed even as grinning U.S. Marines stood behind him waving to the folks back home.
As the Harvard study states, “The nation’s watchdog has lost much of its bite and won’t regain it until the public perceives it as an impartial broker, applying the same reporting standards to both (political) parties.”
This conclusion, however true in the abstract, assumes that the congenitally biased progressives who dominate the mainstream media are intellectually and ethically capable of affording fair treatment to those with whom they disagree. But, judging from the media’s ongoing frenzy to reduce Trump to a latter-day Emmanuel Goldstein, that is a proposition that is very much in doubt.
I’d like to know where the hell they found those 41% negative MSM articles about Obama in the early months of his disaster.
Everybody on both sides were walking on eggshells trying not to utter a single disparaging word about the first (half) black pResident and Savior of the Planet.
Never in all history has a President had his ass kissed by the media as much as it did with Zero before and after his election
Seems like it’s changing from meet the press to beat the press haha media a significant portion of the country has been enjoying every moment of your self indulgent descent into hateful rage and screaming into your echo chamber
Popcorn: Lawyer Slams Keith Olbermann For Trashing Griffin’s ‘Selfish’ Presser Post-Tump Beheading Stunt
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/06/03/popcorn-lawyer-slams-keith-olbermann-for-mansplaining-after-he-trashes-griffins-selfish-presser-n2335767
“Media have forfeited all objectivity in bid to pull down Trump”
Objectivity was never one of their virtues. They forfeited any pretense of objectivity about a year ago. More recently, they’ve abandoned any pretense of rationality or sanity.
I think they meant that Obama had .041% negative coverage in the mainstream media -— and 99.959% positive coverage.
The enemy will soon come out into the light.
Who was the last Democrat President they criticized?
Who was the last Republican President they didn't attack?
Don’t forget, he blamed everything on Bush for the first six years of his presidency.
The media was thrilled to jump on that bandwagon.
who are they trying to snooker here?
It’s not working.
You’re right.
They had objectivity?
...”The enemy will soon come out into the light.”...
I try to gain wisdom from those who have gone before and, for me, the Biblical book of Psalms and Proverbs, are just full of it. So, I read those frequently. This a.m. I read this and it is easy to apply it to the MSM: “Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity: Yes, he(she) brings forth falsehood. He(she) made a pit, dug it out, and has fallen into the ditch which he(she) made. His(her) trouble shall fall upon his(her) own head.” Psalm 7:14-16
The ultimate consequences of doing evil, lying and cheating to hurt others actually comes back around against those who do such things. I believe that with all my heart.
Wow, that Lisa Bloom is a bigger “victim” than I realized, too. What a lunatic.
Unrelated: Did you notice Keith Olbermann’s Twitter icon thingy (totally blanking out on the word for those, sorry)? Also a lunatic.
I would estimate early negative media coverage of Obama no greater than 5%.
The only negative coverage I remember of Obama was from his own party saying he wasn’t moving fast enough on their agenda. It was never coverage meant to bring him down or cripple his presidency. Or the Press would quote a Republican criticizing Obama and then provide a commentary from another Democrat denying the charge.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the media would JUST publish the facts of a story and leave out their bias so we could come up with our own conclusions? Never going to happen!
The “negative” articles were ones that implied he wasn’t going to save the entire history of Earth.
Expecting anything from the MSM to be objective is foolish. I will not fall for it. I dont even read the MSM articles posted here. Pure junk and lies. The fold, spindle and mutilate the facts.
Liars and the truth is not in them.
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