^^^ Fake news
Wikipedia gives a brief summary of the press involvement in the Spanish/American War. “Several forces within the United States were pushing for a war with Spain. Their tactics were wide-ranging and their goal was to engage the opinion of the American people in any way possible. Men such as William Hearst, the owner of The New York Journal was involved in a circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and saw the conflict as a way to sell papers. Many newspapers ran articles of a sensationalist nature and sent correspondents to Cuba to cover the war. Correspondents had to evade Spanish authorities; usually they were unable to get reliable news and relied heavily on informants for their stories. Many stories were derived from second or third hand accounts and were either elaborated, misrepresented or completely fabricated by journalists to enhance their dramatic effect. Theodore Roosevelt, who was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy at this time, wanted to use the conflict both to help heal the wounds still fresh from the American Civil War, and to increase the strength of the US Navy, while simultaneously establishing America as a presence on the world stage. Roosevelt put pressure on the United States Congress to come to the aid of the Cuban people. He emphasized Cuban weakness and femininity to justify America’s military intervention.”
I’m quite certain that media manipulation didn’t begin here but this was spectacular.
The “Fake Hews” contrived phenomenon was a leftist idea that has turned around and stung them. The news as we know it is as bad as any propaganda. Journalism has been rotting away for years as the industry has been filled with libtards and those who write no better than children.
At first:
there were no alternatives the Left was careful not to abuse their media monopoly; they’d nose the ball 1 nanometer into the endzone for the touchdown, then do NO victory dance and act all surprised and bashful, “Gosh, what happened..? My word...!”
They wanted Their Side to win but also keep their conservative viewership, capiche..?
There was no reason to spike the football in our faces and in fact, there were many reasons to never do so.
BUT THEN:
Talk radio and the internet meant the end of the Left’s Media Monopoly. Conservatives could find news far that completely agreed with them. Even if the left’s news made great efforts to continue as they had before, conservatives didn’t want “lost but by just 1 nanometer” pablum.
In comes Fox news, etc.
SO THEN:
Lefty news specializes in informing their OWN —SCREW conservatives.
There’s no longer any reason to pretend cuz the conservatives aren’t watching anyway.
AND NOW:
ANYONE can be a journalist. And he will almost certainly do the job better than some fool who shelled out tuition for Columbia School of Journalism:
A gift-shop clerk, a World of Warcraft review scribe, a Lucky Charms guy, a guy whose mom had to drive him to college for a full semester before he quit, etc.
1846
The Associated Press was formed in May 1846 by five daily newspapers in New York City
What year did journalism start to be “unrealiable”? What happened?
It’s for the ladies. Glor is easier to look at than Pelley.
Hearst's "Yellow Journalism" about the turn of the 20th Century, but the shift of "Journalists" to promotion of Socialism and Cronkite's treason on Vietnam was when it started to destroy America.
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”
— Thomas Jefferson
The leftist media hid the health and adultery of JFK... and even further back, FDR.
But the leftist media were also supporting the blunders of Woodrow Wilson and later his health (or lack of it).
When the OSS was disbanded in 1945, but people like William Paley, Walter Cronkite, Sarnoff, Herbert Marcuse and are all tied to the OSS and propaganda.
Operation Mockingbird was a secret campaign by the CIA to influence media. Begun in the 1950s, it was initially organized by Cord Meyer and Allen W. Dulles. At the Church hearings the Dir.of the CIA said there wasn’t a major news anchor they didn’t control.
Media has always been controlled by the oligarchs. The Kennedy’s sold their majority interest in RKO Pictures to the Rockefellers in the 1940s.
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In the 1930s or before for the NYT or perhaps it was never reliable, though generally relied on.
don't know bout urinalism, but the Nixon kennedy tv debate where they put Nixon under the spotlight to make him sweat was the first time i saw itIt became clear to me during the Lewinsky scandal, although I had begun to wonder during the Reagan Presidency.
1933; after FDR forced corporations into his central planning committees.
Walter Cronkite.
Eighteen sixties - you should read what the MSM at the time wrote about Lincoln. Those broadsheets are displayed in the Lincoln library in Springfield, IL.
I stopped reading the Boston Globe in 1975, noticing how politically correct they were becoming, and force-feeding us the dem slant.