Posted on 01/24/2017 7:27:20 AM PST by Academiadotorg
When President Trump came to the CIA and received the type of ovation he usually gets at rallies of his supporters, his appearance blew away yet another media narrative several weeks in the making on his alleged war on the intelligence community.
Media narratives disintegrate with such regularity that their disintegration in the information age is rapidly becoming a dog-bites-man story. For you younger folk, the origin of that analogy is this: in days of yore, old-time editors would tell their cub reporters that "man bites dog" is a story while "dog bites man" is not.
Hearkening back to those days of yesteryear, here are a couple of other media narratives of days gone by that fell apart when reality reared its ugly head:
• When the U. S. marines invaded the communist island of Grenada and spirited away the American medical students who were virtually under house arrest on the island, much media coverage stateside indicated they were not in grave danger. Then, when the medical students actually made it back in the USA, one of them went out and kissed the tarmac and another media narrative goodbye.
• For years, U. S. media outlets ran warm and fuzzy stories on life in the Eastern communist bloc controlled by the Soviet Union. Then, when the Cold War ended and the Hungarian government allowed residents to emigrate, the photos of them doing so resembled those of enraptured participants at revival meetings.
You would think that with the regularity with which such "stories" fall apart, that some in the media might try the novel approach of actually reporting news.
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That’s too much like work....................
No gonna happen with the MSM.
Their job wasn't to report news. Their job was to shape opinion.
Their collective view of the world, their schooling, and their careers up to this point render them incapable of changing.
Well yeah...UNLESS We The People MAKE them change how they do things.
We have to DEMAND that we want FAIR, ACCURATE, BALANCED reporting with ZERO bias. Otherwise, we won’t buy what they sell.
Enough bankrupt news organizations happen, perhaps they’ll get the message.
Totalitarian leftists will never give up their dream of brutal global oppression. Especially the oppression of Christianity.
I imagine those who attended the Trump speech (1000+ applied for under 400 spots) were disproportionately operators. I suspect the anti-Trump contingent are disproportionately lace-panty analysts and political appointees, an entirely different cohort within Langley. Either that or the Russians hacked the invitations sent to politically-biased CIA analysts, and those insiders didn’t know President Trump was speaking there until the Mainstream Media told them.
I am a fan of Palin despite her journalism degree—in no part because of it.
From the top (by God Himself).
Ping to Mr. Lion.
(Severe back pain is excruciating and can make the sunniest day seem dimmer; prayers for your healing, Lady O.
And did you know that onyx can be white in color? I didn’t until recently. )
Choose wisely. Is it the ornate gold one or the plain ceramic one.
If 98% of the media is comprised of Left Wing activists, is it any wonder their reporting is often false with false narratives.
No, the answer is for a conservative billionaire to start or buy more media outlets to fix them. Comcast would be a good start.
Just a very plain ceramic one.
kinda like One America does?
Why?
The media is not about reporting the news. It is about promoting causes (typically Leftist). And they have been fabulously successful. So what if their narratives fall apart? It isn’t like anyone is going report on it...
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