Posted on 09/22/2016 4:26:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
The media meltdown we are gobbling popcorn to right now is the result of two key phenomena – we normals have grown tired of the media elite’s lies, and today’s technology allows us to ignore the people who would presume to tell us what we can and cannot know. As the walls collapse around the few remaining information gates and we barbarians bypass them, gatekeeper gigs are becoming as rare as jobs for millennials with masters degrees in Feminist Interpretive Dance.
Now you media creeps are finding yourself ignored and irrelevant as America proceeds to do whatever the hell it pleases whether you like it or not. We don’t need you; we can and will get our information by ourselves. How I yearn to fill a hot tub with the salty, sweet tears of a thousand so-called journalists who decided to put their money down on progressive ideology instead on objectivity and public service. You just crapped out. That’s what you get when you always bet on hack.
Let’s savor their pain. Imagine yourself coming out of some university where you were reliably liberal and sucked-up to your pinko professors. You nodded eagerly whenever anyone said “global warming,” and you shook your head in horror whenever someone said “Men can’t have babies.” You got a job at some prominent newspaper or mainstream network, dutifully parroting the party line with perfect precision, awaiting the day when you would finally reach a level of power where you could not merely lie about and distort the news, but to actually control the news.
Then, just when you thought you were going to become a Lord of the Fourth Estate, you idiots completely overplayed your hand right when technology gave people an alternative to your old school media monopoly. You pushed us past the point of toleration just as the web created other places for us to go. And now, look at you. You’re nothing. Just a bunch of pompous, boring, nobodies without reputations, without respect, without futures.
We’re laughing at you.
Then Donald Trump comes along and outrages you, but not for what he says or does. Hell, you haven’t seen so many eyeballs turned your way since that unpleasantness with the pumpkin-infused craft ale and trans lifestyle editor at last year’s winter solstice office party. No, Trump outrages you because he thinks you’re a clod and a joke and he mocks you, and no matter what you say, no matter what you do, no matter how much futile fussiness you manage to muster in that concave chest of yours, you can’t dent his popularity.
You’ve dumped everything you have on Donald Trump and he’s still tied with your ancient, crusty crone candidate Hillary. And you realize that you don’t have the power you were promised. You don’t have the influence you sought. You have nothing.
No one cares anymore.
No one listens to you anymore.
We’re laughing at you.
So of course you double down. Now, back in the day, long ago, before I could ignore you by going on Twitter and getting my news unfiltered, you had some pretensions of being worthy of respect. You were journalists, the guardians of public integrity, afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted. Except you sold out, and now you comfort the comfortable – “Gosh, Ms. Clinton, your energy and robust health are an inspiration to women everywhere. Does your courage make it hard to be the example of feminine perfection you indisputably are, except to racists?”
And you afflict the afflicted, bullying and slandering good people whose unforgiveable sins include believing in God, loving our country, and not having wasted $400,000 of Daddy’s hedge fund loot partying at some Ivy League resort with thousands of other layabout parasites who despise the better men who built the country your presence degrades.
You’ve tossed away your pretense of objectivity because Donald Trump is different. Yeah, now it’s hard to be objective, because you really, really, really want Youthfulia McVigor to be president, so you openly dispensed with objectivity. Apparently, objectivity was only a thing when it is easy, when you didn’t actually have to risk your preferred outcome by giving the complete and balanced story without putting your puny thumb on the scale. Yeah, you’ve moved beyond the “he said/she said” model which tragically prevented you from overtly packing the story with your preferences and prejudices – oh, we know you always slipped in your biases, but now you don’t even pretend. You’re all in, charter members of the Democrats’ Team Take-A-Memo.
If you ever had a shred of credibility, it’s long gone, like your monopoly on the free flow of information. Technology made you superfluous. Hey, I’m right here in my pad writing a column just like you, with three key differences: I’m not pretending to be unbiased, I don’t have to wear pants, and this time next year I’m not going to be looking for a new job at some place where the term “Frappuccino®” is a thing.
Gatekeepers are falling everywhere, not just in the news game. Look at publishing. My last book was traditional. I had to get someone’s approval to put it out, then I had to wait for the publisher to publish it. But I put out my new book People’s Republic this week and within 72 hours it was in the Amazon Top 500 and ahead of a whole bunch of traditionally published books. Keep manning those gates, chumps – we’re going around the collapsing walls that you once used to control the narrative.
We don’t need you.
We don’t want you.
And we’re laughing at you.
WTP have never before seen a more complete performance of “Hari Kari”
Surely there are some who should be making notes!?
You betcha!
literally, the Party line. Literally the same line as all the other alphabet networks are repeating.
heard a local radio guy yesterday talking about a Readers Digest article called "The 50 Most Trusted Brands". He goes "oh yeah, now they want to tell us what brands we like. I don't think so!" Guy was about 35 maybe 40. People are finally getting it.
Great article!!!
Well if true then Trump will landslide Hillary because the Gatekeepers are pushing her 100%
Talk about being in an echo chamber...
Good riddance to bad rubbish...
(emphasis gleefully added)
They say true journalism has been dead for some time.
Believe it started to die in the 60’s and 70’s when there were a number of concerted efforts from liberals and communists to take over the schools of journalism in the colleges and universities.
True journalism may have completely died about 2008.
But the question is, How can it come back to life?
It is up to US. And by that I mean conservative institutions need to pick up the slack and provide a better option. Perhaps colleges like Hillsdale should offer a journalism course to produce a REAL objective journalist, and then let the market prove them right... JMHO
You’ve dumped everything you have on Donald Trump and he’s still tied with your ancient, crusty crone candidate Hillary. And you realize that you don’t have the power you were promised. You don’t have the influence you sought. You have nothing.
This is ALL that I have asked of Trump since last year.
And he's DELIVERED in SPADES. :)
Any lib media rat who reads this will have smokin' eyeballs.
You are spot on with having institutions like Hillsdale teach “real journalism.” However, we must do our part also. Until companies who advertise and support entities who are free from the confines of liberal group think and political correctness there will not be much of a market for real journalism. I would like to think that people remain skeptical of the news, but it largely boils down to financial decisions.
Consumers must bring about change with their wallets. That is the real way to get the attention of MSM. As long as corporate advertisers continue to fund MSNBC, CNN, and the other primary offenders nothing will change no matter how obvious their bias or how much we laugh at them. Bad theater will always exists as long as they sell tickets.
Nobody has voted yet. If they know they’ve blown their credibility, which they have, and they are still willing to do it, then it is likely they are willing to manipulate the vote.
It isn’t who votes. It’s the one’s who count the votes.
Kurt is taking advantage of self-publishing on Amazon, making an end-run around publishers. So, it's an eBook only, and there are no options for a printed edition at this time. But, you can either download the Kindle app for your phone, tablet, or desktop/laptop computer -- or you can just read it in your web browser.
I've already read Kurt's previous book:
Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009 - 2041
It's fiction, predicting the downfall of progressives and the rise of constitutional conservatism. However, I think you will notice right away that the real timeline has diverged from the fictional timeline since Kurt wrote it back in 2013-2014 (it was published in June, 2014).
Specifically, Hillary Clinton is elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2020 in Kurt's fictional timeline. Of course, Clinton was a disaster -- ruthlessly suppressing dissent and humiliated by a failed invasion of Iran. In 2024, voters were tired of progressives and chose a conservative woman.
I just went back to read the first part of the book. Kurt's description of Marlowe (the fictional conservative President) sounds a lot like someone you may know:
So, Kurt predicted the rise of a new type of candidate -- it's just happening 8 years earlier.
No one is listening to the Ministry of Propaganda anymore and it is killing them.
They are used to producing a narrative and having everyone go along with it.
It’s a new day.
Time to Make America Great Again
Thanks for pistil this morsel of truth.
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