Posted on 10/28/2024 1:05:46 PM PDT by MosesKnows
When Do Media Narratives Become Deceit? I have a generational problem regarding “news”. My problem is that the networks’ opinion of the facts has replaced the facts of the matter, which in my time was news, the facts.
The newspaper reported the facts on the front page along with the editorial page and an op-ed page, in opposition to the editorial. We also heard radio commentary on those facts from Commentators.
This was the first rule for news reporters.
Rule #1: A straight news lead should be a single paragraph consisting of a single sentence, should contain no more than 30 words, and should summarize, at minimum, the most newsworthy "what," "where" and "when" of the story.
From the information provided in the first paragraph, one may form their own opinion from what they know. They could then listen to a Commentator to compare opinions.
When did the media start skipping the "what," "where" and "when" of the story and go straight to the opinion and not the opinion of the reporter, but the opinion of the network?
I believe we accepted partisan “spin” to a point but what prompted my question is my curiosity when does “spin” in the media become “deceit” in the media?
My first notice of downright deliberate, orchestrated, and executed deceit was that Donald Trump mocked a person’s handicap. I believed the narrative because the media told me that is what he was doing. What was Trump reacting to? Why didn’t the media report what prompted the incident, or any back-story.
I later discovered that there is likely another reason to mock that person. The point is that Trump may have mocked the person’s handicap or the person’s poor memory.
Here is what is missing from the media, an investigative report comparing the two points of view.
Yeah. I think around the time Kennedy was assassinated.
They saw they could draw big crowds for many hours with millions watching. The space program was also “must watch” live TV.
Things deteriorated from that. To wit:
The Watergate hearings
Three Mile Island
Iranian hostages
Iran “Contra-gate” hearings
From an interesting newspaper movie, Deadline USA.
I came over the river Jordan from a weekly scandal sheet and asked old John Garrison for a job.
Are you a journalist or a reporter he said.
What's the difference I said.
He answered. A journalist makes itself a hero of the story while the Reporter merely becomes the witness.
It became a never ending bombardment of body counts and narratives of eroding public support. No story came on the nighty news without those caveats attached.
When has the Media NOT been deceitful???
They attacked Nixon in 1952 and ate Joe McCarthy for lunch. They praised the Soviet Union while Stalin was slaughtering Ukrainians. Was long before Kennedy. I just don’t know when.
They are deceit from to moment they are concocted in the offices and zoom calls among media and Democrat operatives.
On an hourly basis.
it was only in 1889 that the American States decided to meet periodically and to forge a shared system of norms and institutions. There were, in the meantime, conferences and meetings that attempted to give birth to the system, but it was only at the invitation of the Government of the United States that the process began that was to continue uninterruptedly until this day...
There's more. You should read it but I want to get here...https://www.oas.org/en/iachr/mandate/Basics/declaration.asp where it is written...
The Ninth International Conference of American States
AGREES:
To adopt the following
AMERICAN DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MAN
Preamble
All men are born free and equal, in dignity and in rights, and, being endowed by nature with reason and conscience, they should conduct themselves as brothers one to another.
The fulfillment of duty by each individual is a prerequisite to the rights of all. Rights and duties are interrelated in every social and political activity of man. While rights exalt individual liberty, duties express the dignity of that liberty.
Duties of a juridical nature presuppose others of a moral nature which support them in principle and constitute their basis.
Inasmuch as spiritual development is the supreme end of human existence and the highest expression thereof, it is the duty of man to serve that end with all his strength and resources.
Since culture is the highest social and historical expression of that spiritual development, it is the duty of man to preserve, practice and foster culture by every means within his power.
And, since moral conduct constitutes the noblest flowering of culture, it is the duty of every man always to hold it in high respect.
and that's only the preamble.
I was looking for the SFBs behind it back in 1889 (and I got my suspicions), UNfounded as yet but did learn who the OAS U.S. Ambassador is Francisco_O._Mora
If you're wondering what's the big deal or whydja start down this rabbit hole, I was thinking earlier tonight about reading about the UN commission on migrants here on FR back in 1998 and went looking for the UN paperwork on the members of of that commission; instead the search engine served up https://cidh.oas.org/Migrantes/migrantes98eng.htm
The Declaration of Santiago, adopted by the Heads of State and Government participating in the Second Summit of the Americas, reasserts that "respect for and promotion of human rights and the fundamental freedoms of all individuals is a primary concern of our governments." To this end, it was decided to make a special effort to "guarantee the human rights of all migrants, including migrant workers and their families.”
In the Plan of Action of the Second Summit of the Americas, the Heads of State and Government agreed, among other things, to "seek full compliance with, and protection of, the human rights of all migrants, including migrant workers, and their families, and adopt effective measures, including the strengthening of public awareness, to prevent and eradicate violations of human rights and eliminate all forms of discrimination against them, particularly racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance.”
Furthermore, the Plan of Action indicates that the states will "support the activities of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights with regard to the protection of the rights of migrant workers and their families, particularly through the Special Rapporteur for Migrant Workers.”
What pisses me off is these past forty years of increasing national concerns about the invasion looks to me like politicians have been playing US for suckers for that long because somebody retired our Constitution but hasn't told US yet. They show US pictures of the enemies crowded at the border gates but our dangerous enemies are the politicians at every level controlled by our overseers
https://www.rbf.org/about/about-us/timeline https://rockinst.org/issue-area/what-are-the-most-effective-policies-in-reducing-gun-homicides/
https://www.rbf.org/about/our-history/timeline/planned-parenthood
https://www.ssrc.org/programs/the-mercury-project/
If you're going to ask me what are we supposed to do about it my answer is to take them seriously. That might sound trite but we have to start somewhere.
They did.
David Rockefeller addressed a Trilateral Commission meeting in 1991 with these words:
We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications, whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years.
(Kent 2005, p. 66)
Kent, Deirdre. 2005. Healthy Money Healthy Planet: Developing Sustainability Through New Money Systems. Nelson, New Zealand: Craig Potton
https://cognitive-liberty.online/david-rockefeller-thanks-the-media/
A real news organization cannot push a “narrative” that consistent favors one side over the other. If they have consistent bias, they are instead, propagandists, as in the case of the maninstream media.
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