Posted on 04/02/2018 10:41:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
My thoughts exactly. My red flags went up when I noticed 3 ‘independent’ articles that showed up simultaneously. Someone is pressing the ‘thought control lever’. I could hear the handle being pulled down. I will try to absorb what the message is and the ultimate questions; Why now? What are they trying to sell us? It is a saturation bomb that was dropped that reminded me of Susan Rice’s blitzkrieg on 5 shows on the same day concerning Behghazi.
I worked in a local TV newsroom in an editorial position. Here’s the drill: the editorial people and news producers read local and national newspapers early in the morning to structure their newscasts. The local rag dictates what local stories may be covered. Most all local station news departments will deny that they use the papers for guidance and will tout their stable of “investigative reporters” but this is garbage. In the internet age, I assume that the papers’ websites take the place of the physical fish wrappers. Although I never watch the network newscasts, I assume they are wed to the WPost and NYT as papers of record and worship.
. . . and well you should!But you should also demand proof for the opposite claim that wire service journalism - a monopoly - is objective.
You will find proof of that claim to be wanting, for the simple reason that it is obviously false. Journalism is not objective, journalism is negative.
Journalism is negative for the simple reason that bad news attracts attention, and good news is advertising. Journalists all know this to be true, and yet journalists claim that wire service journalism is objective. In fact, making that claim is the definition of a journalist - anyone who does not go along and get along with that claim is, according to mainstream journalists, “not a journalist, not objective.”
But, of course, "the conceit that 'negativity is objectivity’” is a fine definition of cynicism.
“Sinclair Chairman Claims Entire Print Media Has ‘No Credibility’......
“The print media is so left wing as to be meaningless dribble which accounts for why the industry is and will fade away.”
Notice he inserted the words “print media”? Well, even though he is part of the “media”, he admits they do have some issues within their ranks.
Exactly. And it should be cold comfort to think it came from “establishment on the right” instead of the left. We are a country based on principles enumerated in our founding documents. Above all, freedom. No one should want “news” delivered from anyone’s propaganda, though if it’s properly labeled I have no problem with propaganda being sold.
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