Posted on 02/04/2018 4:13:08 AM PST by Kaslin
Should not the fake news networks be REQUIRED to register as partisan political agencies?
There should be a law...
>>I wonder how the Journ”O”list sleep at night knowing they sold their integrity and credibility for an political ideology
It’s what Howard Zinn trained them for
Some of it might be political ideaology, but I think there is systematic blackmail, bribery extortion, and payoffs throughout media, starting with the ownership of news outlets. If it would be honestly investigated, the corruption would be mind blowing.
It was clear before Watergate that the press hated Nixon. They were not as "in your face" about it as they are today.
If Trump were the one who had done this, the lefty media would have gone with torches to the WH until he was charged.
Journalism by means of bloggers/vloggers/Breitbart/FR/etc has never been better and more honest or more free. We live in the greatest age of journalism in Earth’s history.
It is just that the “traditional” outlets (like WaPo, NYT, LAT, etc) are finally being recognized for what they are - Democrat Party newsletters.
Journalism died when Operating Mockingbird killed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
All that is left now are simulacrums pretending to be journalists.
Next step: the intelligence agencies create AIs and put them on the air—no need for humans who keep sexually assaulting each other. :-(
90% of US media outlets are owned by Wall Street firms.
The media doesn’t even try to appear fair. It has chosen to align itself 100% with the hate-America left. It uses its resources to promote hate-America interests, including m*slim expansion into the free world.
Journalism has been dead for at least a century.
Read about the media’s support of the supremely arrogant and incompetent Woodrow Wilson and later hiding his health condition from the public.
And further evidence of the rotting carcass of journalism is the fifth-column media hawking of FDR, JFK, LBJ (and the media’s attack on Barry Goldwater), JC, Slick Willie, and Traitorobama.
That whole incident STILL fills me with fury!
The bastard excused his actions by insisting that they wouldn't be able to get any news out of Iraq if he didn't do what he did, but nobody ever bothered to ask him why you need news coming out of Iraq if it's just propaganda!
The only reason I can think is the unstated premise that CNN would still have something to sell to its viewers, so what it boils down to is betraying news consumers for the purpose of keeping revenue up.
It was a huge mistake to bring in the paper clip Nazis to help us set up and organize the CIA after WWII. Their ideology infected the intelligence community and it and the other alphabets have morphed into a 4th branch of government that is more powerful than the other three combined. It is also unelected and above any oversight, either by the other three branches or civilian.
It is a goose stepping frankenstein with a nightmarish sci-fi spy apparatus that one former NAS director, I believe it was, warned us would one day stop being used to spy on our enemies, and would be turned inward to be used against We The People.
It was clear to me back then.
I can remember sitting through the wall-to-wall coverage of "the old country lawyer" Sam Ervin's senate committee, with the old fart hammering Nixon at every turn with his folksy anecdotes.
It was enough to make any objective observer puke.
Does anyone recall the wall-to-wall media coverage of the Clinton impeachment hearings?
I think not, because it didn't happen.
Really makes me mad when I click on an article for the NY Times and they WARN me that I have only 2 free articles left.
I am crying crocodile tears cuz they are losing money and have had to consolidate their workspace due to all the journalists they can't afford to hire any longer.
Those Slimeballs can just go where the sun don't shine.
“It’s clear now the Watergate reporting was not journalism but rather a partisan attack on Nixon.”
I think what is clear is that Saints Woodward & Bernstein couldn’t have brought that story in without the copious leaking from the Deputy Director of the CIA.
Journalism died circa 2008.
5.56mm
They are essentially working for the Democratic Party and are a part of them. They should be required to register as PACs.
And there’s a simple way to prove that, too, without any opinion needed whatsoever. Whatever the Democratic politicians say, they say. Whatever line Democrats take, they take the same one. It’s that flagrant.
Again, as the article says, they didn’t have to see the memo this week. They “knew” they could automatically support Democrats against Republicans, that Democrats were being “the patriots” and Republicans were being “partisan political hacks.” That’s being wholly partisan. And they adopt the left’s terminology, even to the point of using ridiculous euphemisms like “undocumented immigrants.”
I was too young then to have more than the vaguest memories of Nixon’s presidency, but read quite a bit about it, including the “All the President’s Men” series, and believed the conventional wisdom about Nixon’s corruption. I’ve started to think more and more, though, that maybe if Nixon had been a Democrat, he would have finished out his term and “Watergate” wouldn’t be a word for scandal.
Yellow Journalism is alive and well.
Definition of journalism: writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation
Definition of propaganda: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
I think it is abundantly clear which is being practiced by the main stream media.
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