Posted on 10/26/2015 5:54:46 AM PDT by Duke C.
We have heard it many times. We in the mass media are ignorant and deceptive partisans, propagandists, and shills. The rest of us are just mindless puppets. The 24-hour news cycle is responsible for dividing America and dumbing down political discourse. In short, modern journalism is the worst thing to happen to the U.S. since Justin Bieber crossed the border.
True, journalism isn't perfect. But such widespread disdain toward journalists is predicated upon exaggerations and misconceptions. A recent, eye-opening literature review by a professor from Stockholm University in Annual Review of Economics examined the impact of the mass media on society and politics. Its findings were far less grim than what is commonly believed.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearscience.com ...
The left loves the media.
True, journalism isnt perfect. But such widespread disdain toward journalists is predicated upon exaggerations and misconceptions.
Journalist report thyself!
....annnnnnnd they lie AGAIN.
What a bunch of BS. The media today is the 5th column.
The Media is nothing more than “Mass Delphi Technique”
Here is what the Delphi Technique is:
“ In group settings, the Delphi Technique is an unethical method of achieving consensus on controversial topics. It requires well-trained professionals, known as “facilitators” or “change agents,” who deliberately escalate tension among group members, pitting one faction against another to make a preordained viewpoint appear “sensible,” while making opposing views appear ridiculous. “
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1998/nov98/focus.html
[ When television began to take over providing news, there were only three networks, and to be honest, the coverage was almost universally the same. ]
They used the three voices that were in sync to achieve a “consensus” and make any viewpoint that disagreed with the three to appear “extreme” or “out of the norm”.
This was when the National Media really became a “National Delphi Technique Session”
I believe that is also called the Straw man Argument.
[ When television began to take over providing news, there were only three networks, and to be honest, the coverage was almost universally the same. ]
They used the three voices that were in sync to achieve a consensus and make any viewpoint that disagreed with the three to appear extreme or out of the norm.
This was when the National Media really became a National Delphi Technique Session
Forgot to Add that the “Fairness Doctrine” was a tool of “enforcing the Delphi technique” on THEIR terms and not the terms of the People.
Why do you think they are so damned scared of Talk Radio?
Why do you think the Internet has then doubly scared as they try to force the FCC to “regulate” the internet????
The headline is a lie and the item that follows is worthless. Now that said not all the mass media is worthless. The New York Times has a crossword after all.
Why does that matter?
Actually, I believe it was 18 minutes.
But the point is made.
CA....
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