Posted on 03/17/2020 8:02:45 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
One of the most frustrating aspects of living in the time of Trump is the utterly corrupt nature of 98% of our national news media, and the inability – or outright refusal – of anyone in a position of authority to hold these miscreants accountable for their misdeeds against our society.
Journalism as a profession is pretty much dead in America today, as the corporate-owned media outlets have abandoned all pretense of objectivity and discarded anything resembling what one used to refer to as journalistic ethics in a mad rush to attract clicks to failing websites and help bring down a President of the United States of whom they do not approve. We live in a situation today in which it has become impossible to trust anything that goes out over the air on cable and broadcast TV networks, or is printed in the pages of the New York Times, Washington Post or the nation’s other big city newspapers.
With the American political left – which essentially owns the country’s journalism schools – having long ago discarded the entire concept of objective truth, citizens are left to fend for themselves in trying to sift through wave after wave of rank disinformation and political narratives in their daily quest to figure out what is really going on. When this happens in the context of elections, it corrupts our political process. When it happens in the context of a national emergency – as it is today – it can costs human lives.
In either event, the absence of a real, working and accountable media establishment serving its intended role as the public’s watchdog represents a true existential threat to our ability to continue to exist as a free society. If we cannot find some way to hold these people to account for their intentional acts to misinform the public, then it’s just a matter of time before the whole thing implodes.
Let’s look at a couple of examples of corrupt journalists engaging in intentional efforts to misinform the public on Monday. First, there is this from Jack Shafer, a corrupt reporter from the reliably leftwing “news” site, Politico:
Jack Shafer ✔ @jackshafer · 18h Those uniforms make Jerome Adams and Brett Giroir look like members of the Heaven's Gate cult.
Jack Shafer ✔ @jackshafer Deborah Birx's outfit makes her look like the cult leader.
So, Jerome Adams is an American anesthesiologist and a vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who currently serves as the Surgeon General of the United States:
Dr. Jerome Adams on coronavirus: Preparedness over panic, facts over fear
Brett Giroir is a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, who currently serves as the Assistant Secretary for Health under the Trump administration.
Deborah Birx is an American physician and diplomat who serves as the coronavirus response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force.” Birx has served as Ambassador-at-Large and United States Global AIDS Coordinator since 2014.
Ms. Birx is widely hailed as one of the foremost experts in dealing with outbreaks of communicable diseases on the face of the earth. The qualifications and level of respect deserved by all three of these experts in their fields are obvious to anyone with a smidgen of a brain and personal integrity. But we are not talking about such a person here – we’re talking about a corrupt journalist, a guy who is employed by the similarly corrupt jackasses who own and run Politico.
Mr. Shafer’s tweets are obviously a malicious effort to smear these three experts and, more importantly from his perspective, minimize and reduce public confidence in their expertise and ability to deal with the coronavirus crisis. Think of it: This clown just reduced Ms. Birx’s entire career down to a snarky fashion statement.
If Michelle Obama had been wearing that exact same outfit, Shafer would have no doubt been blown away by how, like, totes awesome she looks or something. You know?
And if a conservative reporter working for Fox News had made such a snarky remark about the former First Lady he would have been pilloried by all the corrupt leftist journalists who hang out and snark on Twitter 24 hours a day. But because Shafer is a liberal who works for a reliably Democrat-shilling website, you can hear the crickets chirping.
Then there was this from Mara Gay, a member of the New York Times editorial board:
Mara Gay ✔ @MaraGay Trump told governors this morning they are on their own: “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” Mr. Trump told the governors during the conference call, a recording of which was shared with The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/world/coronavirus-news.html#click=https://t.co/RKZusLK5oY …
Well, golly, if the New York Times really did have a recording of that call, then Ms. Gay surely heard the rest of the President’s statement to the governors, which was:
“We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”
Ms. Gay, incidentally, is the same nitwit who, in an appearance with Brian Williams on MSNBC last week, claimed that if Mike Bloomberg had taken the $500 million that he spent on TV ads and just distributed it to the American people, he could have given all of us “a million dollars.” The actual number, of course, is $1.53. This is the level of abject stupidity the New York Times allows onto its editorial board. And let’s be honest, the very fact that Brian Williams, a proven pathological liar, still has a job in the media proves the profession has zero accountability. But in this instance, Ms. Gay goes from mere stupidity to outright mendacity, intentionally abbreviating the perfectly good advice the President conveyed to the nation’s governors in a blatant effort to convince her mindless Twitter followers that he is instead an uncaring beast. Again, if anyone on the Board at Fox News did something like this, they would be mercilessly smeared by the liberal outrage gang on Twitter, and likely fired. But because Ms. Gay is a liberal hack who works for the fellow liberal hacks who own and run the New York Times, she will pay no price for her overt attempt to smear the President of the United States.
This utter and complete lack of accountability for intentional efforts by corrupt journalists to sow panic and fear in our society is not acceptable, especially when people working in every other profession in America are held accountable for their own actions. The first amendment is not a license to lie, not a license to abuse the public trust.
If those in positions of authority at these and many other media outlets continue to refuse to hold their people accountable for their acts of outright mendacity, then either the government or society at large will at some point decide to do it for them. History tells us very clearly that, whenever any society reaches that particular point, things get very, very ugly indeed.
Someone in the corporate media had better wake up, and soon.
That is all.
A small number of major media companies control almost everything. I’d like to see anti-trust laws used or modified so that no News company is allowed to be very big. Let’s have lots and lots of competing News companies.
Also, use RICO statutes so that coordination between “competing” News companies is easy to find, easy to prove, and carries very severe penalties.
In political campaigns while the use of Social Electronic Formats are useful in presenting political positions. Relying solely on using those venues is a mistake because of their SEF content limitations and media bias .
Consideration of the use of reprinted material including handouts and flyers such as of articles in FR and the planning of area saturation distribution known as “blitzing” in the targeted area is essential of one wants to win.
political campaigns while the use of Social Electronic Formats are useful in presenting political positions. Relying solely on using those venues is a mistake because of their SEF content limitations and bias .Comsideration of the use of printed material and the planning of area saturation distribution known as “blitzing” in the targeted area is essential of one wants to win.
I think the press should be held criminally responsible for knowingly accepting stolen property.
Cut the cord. I did 2 years ago and now the only place I have to deal with them is on Fear Republic. They will wither and die without cable revenue.
I’d like to see a few newspaper offices burned and a few TV studios ransacked — preferably on air. Then mass protests outside the smoking ruins. Maybe that would eliminate the need for the next step, which is lamppost decoration.
Yeah, Ms. Gay made the ridiculous calculation but that idiot, Brian Williams, who’s the ANCHOR of the MSNBC News program just sat there, nodding like a bobblehead!
Really, who is the dumkopf there?
Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing March 17, 2020
The question is, do we have the balls to implement them?
Yep, it incenses me that there is no accountability in media, they are corrupt.
When this is all over there will be a handful of assholes that will need to be hanged.
Fear Republic...I love it. There are a few posters on here who has the mental maturity of a 14 year old(Travis Magee is that you). They childishly show up in every Covid-19 thread and post the same redundant propaganda to rile people up. There is trying to educate people and there is acting like a total tool and trying to aggravate people looking for news and insight.
The Star Chamber comes to mind.
We can hold them accountable any time we wish by refusing to consume their product. The big networks are only talking to 30% of the country - if the rest of us want hard news we are going to have to financially support media outlets that are willing provide it.
I think the media is being underwritten by someone (Soros like creatures?) so that profit and loss is irrelevant. The sole overriding mission of the MSM is to push this nation leftward. They don’t care how much it costs.
I’m holding my breath.....
It’s not enough for US to just turn them off; they are abusing their responsibility to the American people. Aren’t news sources granted permission use of the “public’s” airwaves? Can’t this permission be rescinded if they are shown to not be serving the public good? At the very least they should be paying fines for every time they are found to have filed false reports without granting equal time to the retraction of erroneous stories.
bkmk
You are correct.
If hookers and drug dealers spoke up accountable would be sure to ensue.
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