Posted on 05/10/2023 4:46:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Last year, Forbes concluded that "only 16% of adults in the U.S. say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers, and just 11% said the same for television news." Anyone confronting these stats must conclude that our media are deeply incompetent or crooked or both.
The New York Times announced a few years ago that defeating Trump was the important thing. They gave themselves a free pass to lie all they want. How can they now reclaim their honor or their usefulness?
Real journalists, when they hear an assertion, immediately try to determine whether the assertion is true or false. This is also what scientists do. It's honest, valuable work.
Unfortunately, our liberal journalists do not care about true or false. When they hear an assertion, they try to determine whether it will help their agenda...their narrative.
If it won't help, they know they must attack the assertion, typically by declaring it debunked, fake news, or misinformation.
Let's try to recapture what the Founding Fathers imagined when they put freedom of press at a high place in the national schema. Ideally, we could always assume that major media were telling us the truth as honestly as they could. But nothing can be assumed anymore.
Novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) and Czech statesman Václav Havel (1936–2011), having lived under communist dictatorships, knew what hell on earth looks like. They ended up with the same obsession that, before all else, we must "live in truth." Conversely, they figured out that societies start to crumble when the leaders are concerned primarily with their own ambitions, their own realities.
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Now do the Courts and the Administrative State.
The media didn’t need Trump to begin lying. They lied perpetually about Reagan and then again about Gingrich. Once they decided the ends justified the means, (aka advocacy journalism) they had carte blanc to spout whatever lies they wanted, peaking with the “mostly peaceful” riots and stolen election of 2020.
the LEFT does not care if the country is a pile of rubble
as long as they are in control
What is the truth? The truth is that which serves the revolution.
Yeah, that "hope" and $4+ will get you a gallon of gas.
Like in the Old Soviet Union, Americans need to develop a “Sh*T Detector” to judge what is real in the “Pravda” News and what is fake. They knew 80% of the things they read was BS. What we need is an Underground of Truth—like the USSR developed. It is our own fault—we surrendered our freedom willingly. We were asleep at the switch. We became too complacent, too fat and lazy. We deserve what we get pushed upon us. May your chains be light as Thomas Paine wrote so long ago.
Journalism lost it's way when idiots started writing for 'prizes' rather than for their readers. It's been downhill ever since. This latest stuff is just more crap.
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