Posted on 06/27/2016 7:27:33 AM PDT by Hojczyk
From Mediaite: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria spoke with Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources today about whether the media being too “elite” was a problem in how it missed the Brexit outcome so badly.
Zakaria acknowledged that journalists tend to be “better-educated,’ “comfortable with diversity,” more liberal, and “probably less sensitive to the concerns” of average Britons who supported the Brexit.
However, he said, the pro-Brexit campaign was “entirely using emotion, conjuring horror stories” about immigrants and the like, aided on by the British tabloids––which Zakaria referred to as “basically their Fox News.”
Zakaria argued that “the media does have a bias in favor of facts” when it calls out the Leave campaign for going on emotion while the Remain campaign was bringing up facts and figures about the cost and consequences of leaving the EU.
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Many of these journalists are just that.
People who prefer to write, and not engage in face to face discussion where the other person can outright tell them they are full of S__T.
Also with todays internet, they can get others to post favorable comments about their “wisdom” and pass it off as the “ truth”
Quoting those seers of the Music world The Who “ We won’t get fooled again”
Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
Michael Crichton
Dunning–Kruger effect link
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others
Zakaria: Journalists Are ‘Better Educated’, ‘More Comfortable With Diversity’ Than Ordinary People
Zakaria: Journalists Are ‘More Indoctrinated’, ‘More Isolated from the effects of Diversity’ Than Ordinary People
Fixed the headlines...
The elite super-edumacated also have a corner on arrogance.
I like teachers who practice what they teach!
old media journalists are beyond stuck on stupid.
LOL another elitist passing judgment on the great unwashed masses....
“Those who can do
Those who can’t teach
Those who can’t teach teach teachers to teach”
Those who can’t teach teach teachers to teach JOURNALISM?
And they are apparently snobs as well.
That’s odd - the people who took journalism when I was in school were the ones who failed science and math.
They aren’t better educated. Definitely better brain-washed though.
Peutocracy - rule by puerile effete urban twits, cf. Obama, Harf, Psaki, Pajama Boy, etc, etc, etc.
No offense... but that was pretty much every topic when I was younger as well, and I wasnt in J.
Frankly I find that Journalists, as a whole, tend to be more closed minded, closet racists, and a whole hosts of things that are attributed to the voters.
Today’s journalists are laze, ill-informed, miss-informed, will not even do the minimal necessary leg work for any investigative story, relying in the Internet for their info.
There are no three independent confirmations for any stories run. Just make it up and go for it, facts play little or no part in the stories and propaganda pieces run today.
In the last year I have seen more distortion, lies, made up stories, etc. on Donald Trump than any candidate I have ever seen. I have known for a long time that I can’t believe what I see and hear out of the MSM, and now, by extension, the Internet has become the same.
The Truth is out there but now you have hunt and find it. Even Diogenes would be hard put to find any honest in New York and D.C..
At the underclassman level, yeah. But this included juniors and seniors. When I transferred to a REAL major, the main topics were projects, tests, interviews and post graduation plans.
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Most British tabs are fairly liberal, loathe Trump, and dislike America. So how he can compare it to Fox (except for the Trump-hating) is beyond me.
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