Remember Journo-list? Bunch of well known liberal journalists collaborating with one another to develop anti-republican memes and hone “the message” they wanted to “teach” Americans? Well all those quotes from various liberal authors in your post focus (collude?)on the word “dark” in a way that confirms my assumption that “Journo-list” never dissolved - it reconstituted under another name.
This was my first thought. They really make it obvious, and they’re very lazy, by using “dark” or “darkness” repeatedly.
Never heard of it before, looking up info on them right now. Thanks!
PS - I’ve been out of politics for quite some time. I was a member here back in 2000-2002, but I lost that login info
Wow the exact same source, just printed this story today - http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/07/23/news-media-kept-using-one-word-describe-trumps-rnc-speech-not-accident-368877
Ezra Klein and his Journo-list mob are just well hidden and underground. They still coordinate everything in the news. Their overuse of the word “dark” was too obvious, and you caught it. They reacted because of hysteria and threw it out too fast.
Back in the mid eighties, the sister of a good friend worked at a central telex center for the Associated Press. This was where news stories came in 'on the wire' from reporters wordwide.
According to his sis, there were banks of telex machines with operators who'd take the stories off the telexes and type them up for distribution to the networks.
As she told it, there was a team of supervisors who'd patrol the rows, looking at the stories that were coming in. Every so often, a supervisor would snatch new copy out of a telex and begin redacting portions of reports or editing them on the spot. In some cases, they took the copy and shredded it.
Manipulation of the news didn't start with Journ-O-List.
Note that one of the headlines actually sources the “dark vision” line to a Clinton spokesperson, while the other headlines just ran with some variation of that, but didn’t attribute it to Clinton.
It’s not just journalists colluding amongst themselves, they are getting their talking points directly from the Clinton campaign and DNC and passing them off as their own reporting.