Posted on 08/27/2016 8:32:49 AM PDT by pabianice
This week I am going to do something unusual. I am going to enter into a conversation with another columnist. Doing so was not so unusual a few decades back. Bill Buckley and James Jackson Kilpatrick did it when provoked and it was always interesting. Yet today a columnist is a godlike figure. Today’s columnist communicates solely with Olympus, and the result is often a bit tedious.
I propose to address the New York Post’s Michael Goodwin and congratulate him on noting that mainstream media (MSM) have passed yet another milepost in their decline. Michael wrote in his column this weekend that “Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.” And he elaborated: “The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand in hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.” Michael writes for a Rupert Murdoch newspaper and I write for the good Times and The American Spectator. None is a member of the MSM, but I would venture that neither of us is as tyrannized into homogeneity as the writers for the MSM. In fact, there exists more diversity of opinion about Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton where we write than within the MSM. In our audience we trust our readers to decide for themselves.
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Liberals live for confirmation bias. Otherwise, fake news organs like the New York Times and CNN would cease to exist.
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. says, “Yet today a columnist is a godlike figure.”
This is a perfect example of an inflated opinion.
There are columnists I don’t like. There are columnists I do like. But I consider none of them “godlike.”
The “fourth estate” has become the outhouse.
Jack, With all due respect, the behavior of the so-called “media” transcends purveyors of useless information.
The klintoon/obozo scandalrama should have made it
clear to anyone with half a brain that, in America
today, the Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column!
That should scare the hell out of anyone who
understands where that leads!
Can you say ”Nazi Germany”?
TREASON TRIALS ARE IN ORDER!!
Scandalrama.
I like that.
I knew Emmett years ago.
He is a talented writer, funny guy, and I was a big fan.
American Spectator was a great magazine during the early years of the Clinton administration. They were all over every Clinton scandal, did outstanding investigative reporting.
Then the Vince Foster “suicide” happened. For a couple of months they were on the case with their usual diligence. They had several great articles.
Then all of a sudden they stopped covering the story, started cracking jokes about “Foster conspiracy nuts”, and lost their determination to go after the Clintons.
The Clintons got to them, somehow, some way.
So, I cannot trust them at this point.
It would be a great research project to find out what happened with this once great magazine.
Their function now is to provide irresponsible sensationalist reporting that is beneficial to the platonic libtard elite who consider themselves to be superior beings with superior wisdom based on mystical intuitive powers, and who consider themselves the protectors to the masses and the public good.
I believe his point is valid. So-called journalists/opinion-columists now believe their duty is to advance social evolution (progressivism) which align with their college instructors beliefs. Obviously, it's no longer about reporting news, but reporting their biased agendas. This goes as far back as Walter "Lost the Tet Offensive" Cronkite, of which he was wrong.
Somewhere, sometime back, I read that most journalists are some 77% registered democrats. Wonder what the percentage is today.
For those who don't who R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is, he is one of the first who has always been on the money about biased journalism.
This is their Achilles heel. Like the hard left parties before them, any contrary actions or words are dealt with a swift hand. So, their is a dysfunction in the MSM's ability to any course correction. IOW, they will ride that Zeppelin all the way down to the ground.
Like the little snowball that caused an avalanche, the TAS had a story called "Troopergate" which told of State Troopers in Arkansas who helped Bill Clinton score women. One such "score" was a gal named Paula, Paula Jones. She read the story, got pissed, sued...Monica Lewinsky was called in to testify, you know the rest.
THIS is all they have on Trump for the day?
It is clear the media are on the payroll of America's enemies, which makes them our enemies as well. But their assault is more subtle than outright propaganda. They attack with half-truths, buried stories, outright lies, and the pretense that all that treacherous filth is Truth.
Which is not to say they're immune to using outright propaganda as well.
The point is, they're in no way purveyors of news anymore, so anyone -- even liberals -- who want NEWS has to admit that they're not getting it from the media.
So what use IS that "estate?"
Most people cite MSM’s political bias as their reason for not trusting the press. An important aspect which is overlooked is the members that make up media give favorable reports on the establishment is hopes of receiving exclusive interviews and invitations to parties and dinners with the elite.
Oh, I thought that they made the announcement that they’re now a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC and CPUSA.
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