Posted on 12/10/2018 5:26:36 AM PST by NOBO2012
There is no good news. At least not while Donald J. Trump is president. Its the inverse of the Obama Occupation rule, which prohibited bad news.
And if there is something that might be interpreted as good news it will be ignored, like the blockbuster story about the U.S. transforming into a net oil exporter for the first time in 75 years. The only way youll hear about oil boom in the MSM is in connection with Obama taking credit for the solution to the problem he claimed we couldnt drill our way out of. But I guess he deserves it, after all, oil was his fifth choice - right behind wind, solar, algae and corn.
That was me, people.
Actually, Barack, your alternative energy programs were more a lot more you: a lot of hot air, expensive, foreign built, underperforming units and green slime. Not to mention the cultural appropriation of a native American foodstuff which has been shown to be as dumb as it looks.
And if MSM cant ignore it or lie about it, they will take a good news story and turn it into a bad news story:
Heisman Trophy Winner Apologizes For Tweets He Sent As A Child
They cant help themselves anymore, its just reflexive.
And they wonder why we hate them.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
The “news” is merely propaganda, distortion, omission or, merely, complete BS. What a sad state of affairs. One cannot believe the “news” to be true. Quite the opposite. Integrity is a foreign concept to these purportedly neutral “reporters” of the “news”. One must believe the opposite.
The reason we are in this mess now is due to decades of media lies.
When you listen to more than one news source & the news varies from a little to a lot,or certain things newsworthy are never mentioned on certain networks....then you know that somebody is lying. You have to make the decision as to who that is.
EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL. Business, weather, news, family, religion(especially marriage), sex, science, military, sports, i.e. EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE.
At some point, PDJT needs to go full Stalin.
Take about 200 out of what’s become the Politburo outside and execute them. Then move on to the Journolists.
If they want to impeach him so badly and have him arrested.
Give them a real reason!
Impeach don’t impeach it doesn’t matter. The Libs are no longer rational. We will get a steady diet of bad news until the Libs are in charge; then it will be nothing but Unicorns crapping skittles on every street corner.
A better historical analogue would be 'full Pinochet'. Stalin scooped up way too many innocents, where Pinochet focused on the real leftist enemies.
From the founding of the Republic, any given newspaper has reflected the politics of its printer. That was understood by the authors of the Constitution, and by those who ratified the First Amendment.What changed is that now all the printers are politically simpatico. What caused the change, and when? IMHO (after more thought over a longer period of time than I like to admit) it is the fruit of the wire services, especially the AP. The telegraph was demoed by Samuel Morse in 1844 - and by 1848 the predecessor to the AP was forming.
By 1875 people were raising the alarm about the propaganda power of the AP. The AP responded that its members contributed most of its content, and its members were famous for not agreeing about much of anything (which, at the time and traditionally, was true) - so the AP itself was objective.
That argument held some water at the time, but - as we all know - it is far from true today, and hasnt been true for a very long time. In his 1776 masterpiece Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith asserted that People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. The AP wire is a virtual meeting of all its member newspapers, and it doesnt end at all. And is not about merriment and diversion, but precisely about business.
Anyone who considers that situation - and does not wish to be seen as utterly naive - would have to ask, If journalists conspired against the public, what would be their objective and how would it manifest itself? And Adam Smith has an answer to that, too: "The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires." - Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) Put that way, it is IMHO hard to question the fact that people go into journalism for precisely that reason.
And what would be better calculated to promote the influence of journalists than agreement among journalists
And is it not true that that constitutes practicing on the credulity of the public, and thus a conspiracy against it? The 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan SCOTUS decision famously made it extremely difficult for Democrat or Republican politicians to sue for libel or slander. If you read the decision, you learn that not only was it unanimous, and not only were the concurring decisions critical only that it didnt go far enough, but you yourself will want to cheer the decision, given the facts before the Court at the time. The problem is not the First Amendment, is and not SCOTUSs vindication of it in Sullivan. The problem is that wire service journalism is an Establishment. And, in point of fact, an anti-conservative Establishment.
- not to question each others objectivity, and
- to (rhetorically) stone to death the career of anyone who, claiming to be a journalist, violates rule 1?
There is not supposed to be an Establishment in America. There is only the people. Some few of the people are at any time in government - temporarily (other than a few judges), but otherwise there are people who presently own newspapers, and people who do not yet own newspapers. The First Amendment does not establish journalists as a separate category; it guarantees that anyone who will spend the money for it can buy a printing press. Journalism is neither a title of nobility nor an Established priesthood, both of which the Constitution forbids. It is not legitimately the Fourth Estate because there arent supposed to be any Estates here.
But nevertheless, wire service journalism does function as an Establishment. And the question that raises is, What legal recourse might lie against it?
- Obviously the First Amendment does not empower the government to act against journalists. Out of the question as a rationale.
- Just because 1A does not itself empower the government to control journalism, that does not necessarily mean that the people may not vindicate any rights against journalists. In fact, if you express the objective of 1A in terms of the rights of the people, 1A is understood to protect the right of the people to read (and listen to) opinions of their own choosing (the right to print being meaningless without the right of others to read).
- The crunch, then, is the extent to which journalism as an Establishment controls the ability of the people to read or listen to opinions. Journalism as Establishment tends to control the government. Does it use the government to promote its own status as the Establishment? IMHO the answer to that is yes.
- All campaign finance reform legislation is based on the conceit that journalism is above politics. McCain-Feingold was upheld in McConnell v. FEC by a 5-4 SCOTUS majority, thanks to Sandra Day OConnor (and over the objection of Anthony Kennedy). All CFR legislation is IMHO anathema to the principle that people can spend however much of their own money they wanna to promote their own ideas. CFR restricts that right to only the anointed Establishment journalism (and to self-funding politicians such as Mr. Trump). As the Wall Street Journal pointed out at the time, support for McCain-Feingold didnt come from the public - it came from "the media.
- The FCC puts the governments imprimatur on Establishment journalism, insinuating that the public should listen to it. And occasionally Democrats raise the issue of banning talk radio on one pretext or another.
- Jim Acosta can claim that he has a WH press pass of right, and the journalism Establishment supports that claim, and so far the administration is not disposed to fight it legally.
- My gut tells me that something is hiding in plain sight, too obvious to take note of.
- 1A doesnt protect journalists if they commit murder; it should not protect journalists from prosecution (or civil suit) under the Sherman AntiTrust Act. The change in the cost of high-speed, long-distance information transfer from infinity (impossibility) to very expensive created the wire services. By now that cost has gone from very expensive to dirt cheap. The wire services are no longer too big to fail on that account.
I noted above that journalism is anti-conservative. The reason is that journalism is negative and, in claiming its own objectivity knowing that it is negative, it is cynical. Only a cynic thinks negativity is objectivity. And cynicism is the opposite of faith, and thus of conservatism.
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