Greenfield: Fixing the News

Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog ^ | Sunday, February 02, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

[Louis Foxwell]

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[Louis Foxwell]

Yes. We understand the drive by media have no interest in reporting actual real events. That is left to a burgeoning industry centered online offering in depth factual reporting of everything that happens anywhere in the world.

There are winnowing centers like FR offering a particular take on events.It is left to the reader to choose the appropriate venue.

Altogether not a bad system. Works for me.

[PA Engineer]

The news media has become just another outlet in the culture war of the left. Its business model can't be fixed because it isn't in business to make money, but to indoctrinate. It doesn't care about the financial bottom line, but about the political bottom line. Its future is boutique journalism funded by liberal billionaires looking to influence policy by subsidizing failed media outlets that would otherwise go on the block for a buck just like Newsweek

They destroy everything they touch. People are confused who try to follow or at least get an understanding of the world as we know it. I recently had a wonderful young lady who cuts my hair ask what is going on. I cannot help, but to come back to modern science fiction.

People understand the movie The Matrix. I explained that everthing we hear from the "occupation media" is within that matrix. There may be a pause. There may be a sense of confusion. Planting the seed is the important thing when explainig today's news from outside the occupation media narrative. Some may write you off. My experience is interesting. The majority come back with a sense of understanding and agreement. That understanding is a process where the individual is going through an awakening.

I never push it, however I am ready to explain what the real reality is. I never push it and I do not insult them. I do reinforce their opionion is just as valid as the images portrayed to them.

The process is slow, but I still have not lost faith in humanity.

[FreedomPoster]

That’s a great analogy. I will look for opportunities to use it.

[jsanders2001]

Where are the Bob Woodwards or Carl Bernsteins in our day and age? Investigative reporters that will jump in headfirst and aren’t afraid to expose the corruption which is far more rampant than it ever was in 70’s. We just gotten so used to it we’ve learned to accept it as standard operating protocols for politicians. We need some new Bob Woodards. James Kieffer is the closest thing we have to that right now and the libs absolutely hate him for exposing their true intentions and fallabilities.

[left that other site]

Winston’s Job in “1984” was “Fixing the news”.

[tomkat]

             

(and those colors aren't random)

[csmusaret]

Woodward and Bernstein were not investigative reporters. They did not go uncover anything.

[jsanders2001]

Okay Deepthroat handed them the ball and they ran with it. Satisfied?...lol

[marktwain]

“Where are the Bob Woodwards or Carl Bernsteins in our day and age?”

They are everywhere. They are the model of the modern news reporter. Woodward and Bernstein were not great “investigative reporters”. They were the front edge of the media that pulled a media coup on the Nixon Whitehouse.

Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Johnson had all committed much worse crimes that were known by the media, and given a pass.

[Excellence]

In the digital era, the Inner Party looks a lot like Pajama Boy or the new wave at MSNBC or the Obama campaign, it's young, skilled at social media and it never grew up.

I'm trying to think of a political analogy to a Toys R Us kid.

[montag813]

Best conservative writer, by far

[nhwingut]

Excellent analysis. Very well written.

[Travis McGee]

[Albion Wilde]

"The insiders get endless analyses that read like a case of college sophomore arrested development ..."

Ouch! LOL!

[Albion Wilde]

"Middlebrow content that is meaningful to the average person is usually the first casualty of postmodern leftist institutional domination. It happened in every area of culture and it just took a little longer for the same phenomenon to kill the news as we knew it and replace it with a wide gap between lowbrow indoctrination and highbrow guides on how to indoctrinate.

This split is fundamental to understanding what is going on not only with the news media, but with the country. The national audience is being divided between those who are to be fooled and those who do the fooling. "

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Orwell was a prophet.

[Albion Wilde]

Where are the Bob Woodwards or Carl Bernsteins in our day and age? Investigative reporters that will jump in headfirst and aren’t afraid to expose the corruption which is far more rampant than it ever was in 70’s.

Points to consider:

1) Their story was anti-establishment and anti-Republican; therefore it got the green light. Their drama of "breaking news" involved huge and simultaneous circulation across print and television, which was limited to a few channels that that most people consumed.

2) They couldn't and didn't act in a vacuum. They enjoyed the support of their editor and publisher, including finances, time and approval of their story. There are no equivalent major news outlets today (or then) on the conservative side.

3) There was no internet nor YouTube. So they could get "exclusives" that would last all the way back to the newsroom and that day's edition without getting leaked, foreshadowed, or distorted before they even got the story into print.

By comparilson we are living in an age of news anarchy, with no source willing to take the time to be the "paper of record" because the premium is on speed, not accuracy.

[Luke21]

So why nothing on the conspiratorial Journolist, which Klein ran?

[GOPJ]

The news media has become just another outlet in the culture war of the left. Its business model can't be fixed because it isn't in business to make money, but to indoctrinate. It doesn't care about the financial bottom line, but about the political bottom line.

Folks who top the media food chain compete for prizes - they're long past where mere 'money' matters. And the folks who give out the prizes? The most liberal of the liberal... Not that they've created a perverse incentive or anything.../s