Posted on 02/06/2019 5:55:22 PM PST by EdnaMode
Media Bias: While journalists are getting pink slips across the country, the Washington Post decided to dump a boatload of cash for a Super Bowl image ad that tried to portray the news media as national heroes. Here's a better, and much cheaper, idea to restore the industry's shattered reputation: Be less blatantly partisan.
In the 60-second ad, Tom Hanks intones about the importance of journalists against the backdrop of historic events. Thankfully, during these times, the ad says, "There's someone to gather the facts. To bring you the story. No matter the cost. Because knowing empowers us. Knowing helps us decide. Knowing keeps us free."
The problem with journalists today, however, is that they aren't interested in gathering facts or empowering the public with knowledge. Instead, they are interested mainly in pushing their agenda — a basic failing of the profession brought into high relief over the past two years.
Media Bias Kills Trust
The latest IBD/TIPP Poll makes this abundantly clear. The poll asked several questions to gauge the public's perception of the mainstream news media.
What did it find?
First, that fully half the country says its trust in the media decreased over the past two years. A tiny 8% say it's increased.
That includes a plurality of independents (49%). Even among Republicans, who've long grown accustomed to media bias, 81% say their trust in the press has dropped over the past two years.
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Part of it, is that members of the media are liberal. And the pinnacle of the profession, are headquartered in the New York/Washington axis. They are subjected to groupthink.
They also don’t understand the concept of analysis, reasoning ability, etc. They don’t have the ability to debate and discuss issues. Their position is, if you aren’t agreeing with them, then you are racist/sexist/xenophobic, etc.
And once they call some deplorable racist/sexist, etc, then the discussion is over, because the arrogance of these liberal media types, won’t allow them to deign to discuss issues with deplorable types. They feel too superior to the rest of us, feel they are smarter than everyone else, that they just never debate and discuss issues. Those who disagree are simply dismissed as racist/sexist/Islamophobic, homophobic, etc.
Basically the new media of smart devices, and computers mean the new is crowd sourced. We DO NOT NEED the news, whether it be television, radio or print. We need coverage, like C-Span. I enjoy Fox News, in particular Tucker Carlson. I don’t even see information being disseminated by the alphabets, CNN, MSNBC or newspapers. They print, say and opine ONLY opinion.
One of these is true:
a) members of the media, and the companies that own the media, are totally biased toward the democrat party in the US and toward globalist socialism world wide.
b) Members of the media, and the companies that own the media, are too stupid to realize that their natural identification with like-minded people looks like bias to those with different views.
Jeff Bezos and the other media moguls didn’t get rich by being stupid. The bias is deliberate.
True as the day is long...
People are not willing to pay for a product that is telling them they are stupid, garbage, etc.
....and it's the press who turned out the lights.
Yup, exactly.
Does a boring superbowl and ad die in darkness?
They are destroying my country.
The NYTimes announced in August of 2016, during the election, that they were abandoning any pretense of objectivity. The entire mainstream media went all in on that endorsement of systematic bias.
If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?
Because if you believe all of those things, you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer, and approach it in a way you’ve never approached anything in your career. If you view a Trump presidency as something that’s potentially dangerous, then your reporting is going to reflect that. You would move closer than you’ve ever been to being oppositional. That’s uncomfortable and uncharted territory for every mainstream, nonopinion journalist I’ve ever known, and by normal standards, untenable
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It may not always seem fair to Mr. Trump or his supporters. But journalism shouldn’t measure itself against any one campaign’s definition of fairness. It is journalism’s job to be true to the readers and viewers, and true to the facts, in a way that will stand up to history’s judgment. To do anything less would be untenable.
They finally admitted what we have known for decades, and they even embraced their extreme bias as a virtue.
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