Posted on 08/05/2023 7:16:59 AM PDT by Cliff Dweller
I keep hearing on the conservative news networks the comment/phrase "If only journalists would investigate the Biden's actions the American people would see what a (whatever) he is!"
Well, correct me if I am wrong, but are those saying this Not Journalists? If they are not are there not a slew of independent journalists who could accomplish this? Where are the modern day Woodwards (though he was CIA) and Bernsteins?
I caught Rick Leventhal on Newsmax yesterday and he said words to the effect "There ought to be journalists all over this..." well, you are a journalist, why aren't you?
I think it becomes very clear, if anyone starts to pursue this sort of "investigation" they get shut down, disappeared, arrested, SWAT'ed, or something else to encourage them to stop their efforts.
What is ridiculous is the number of pundits proclaiming that the (collective) Media should be investigating. Well, if they are not, then find someone who will, that only makes sense, right? There must be a reason, correct? When you look at what Watergate reporting did for Woodward and Berstein, if there was a true investigative reporter out there, you would not be able to hold them back, the fame, the fortune, the ability to have your entire existance wiped off the face of the planet... Who wouldn't jump at this???
Well, politics has become such a powerful force, with its behind the scenes powerful enforcement capabilities that the potential benefits are more than outweighed by the potential risks.
It is a sad state of affairs that we have reached this level of status quo, how we got here has evolved over time, why we got here was because we, as a people, were not paying attention. Eisenhower tried to warn us, Watergate, I believe, was designed to shut Nixon down, and now the Deep State is so entrenched they can do anything without fear of being exposed or opposed.
Thoughts/comments encouraged.
Today’s “Journalism Schools” have graduated class after class of leftist agitators who do nothing but spew Deep State talking points—even using the exact same words.
If Deep State controlled AI replaced every last one of them we would never know—the reporting would be identical.
Want the main stream media to cover Biden, support Gavin Newsoms campign if polled. Tell everyone you have switched liberal and soapbox Gavin Newsom is the representation of the modern democratic party. Empty, Shallow and already a total failure...just like dear old joe.
They can’t afford to. They need to keep him there until the election. They are kind of stuck between a rock & a hard place. Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have very dire consequences.
Oh, I think most every ‘journalist’ in MSM has already done the investigation(s) - at least enough to satisfy themselves - and know what a lying, dirtbag, senile, perverted POS Biden is.
Because of their ideology they are just not going to report on it in any meaningful way because the traditional MSM is nothing but a captured-contractor to leftist ideology and this current regime.
Conservative news networks? I know not of these. 🤔😂👍
Same with or schools. They have taught (indoctrinated) students to hate America and taught the kids that anything “right or conservative” is evil and must be destroyed.
Maybe the right can grow a set and start fighting back. How abt we start “canceling” teachers that use “disinformation” or LIE. Start being supportive of our country. If you hate it-MOVE to another who will tolerate the BS libs are spouting.
I don’t mean to presuppose you missed my point, but it seems that no one wants to take on the mantle of responsibility. Not my specialty (journalism, investigative reporting) but there seems to be so much low hanging fruit that it should be easy pickings.
I do not buy into the fact that all journalists are tilted and tainted, but it does call into question their desire to do more work than what is required for a Google search.
That is like asking the mafia to investigate their mafia king. That’s a stupid statement. These people are our enemies. America can never be united again unless one thing happens and you all know what that thing is!
The late and beloved Rush Limbaugh used to do montages of broadcast ‘journalists’ saying the exact same Democrat phrases, whatever the Party’s current narrative was that week. There wasn’t an investigative cell in their brains. It was hilarious, but also sad. It’s only gotten worse since then.
Part of the problem is a lot in the media are opinion commentators, not journalists. That has always been a great disappointment of mine going all the way back to the debut of CNN. There you had a 24 hour per day cable news network that repeated the same several stories with the same lack of detail over and over. My disappointment was repeated with the advent of the Internet where there could be endless detail on news stories and politics. Things are reduced to sound bites on cable news and the internet. When that’s the case there really isn’t much need for real journalists. Every outlet has their own stenographer to repeat what government tells them. Even smaller outlets that can’t afford a stenographer of their own, repeat the stenographers of record at the NY Slimes and Washington Compost.
Journalists aiding and abetting in the Biden’s crime syndicate they honor the party’s rule of oath.
Their flag has 3 monkey’s on it for a reason.
You never see a MSM reporter without a tube of chap stick.
I thought these hearings would expose all? Why do they keep coming up short?
It doesn’t advance the cause of The Revolution to go after the Bidens.
I do not buy into the fact that all journalists are tilted and tainted
Well, then you are not paying attention, if you refuse to believe what your eyes are showing you.
Living in Maryland you see this on a daily basis, and should know that reality.
Vanity oh the vanity
Imagine if Nixon had even HALF the support of the then media that Biden has today?
Nixon would have easily served until 1976.
They wouldn’t survive.
I recall seeing an interview with Jack Anderson sometime in the past when Bill Clinton was President. He indicated he and others kept hearing all these stories about Clinton and what he was and was about as AG and Gov. of Arkansas, and none of them were favorable. He decided to send a research team down to Arkansas to determine what was true and what wasn’t. He indicated his research indicated that most of the rumors were true. Know how much of that he and/or the Washington Post reported? NONE. The legacy media was infiltrated and taken over by the left decades ago. The internet is the only thing that has allowed much of what we know today (the truth) about certain people and things because we certainly wouldn’t have gotten it otherwise.
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