Posted on 10/01/2016 5:59:49 PM PDT by MtnClimber
If this year’s presidential election has a silver lining, it is the final demise of “mainstream media.” Which is not to say that liberal media are going away; they aren’t, of course. But liberal media’s claim to being mainstream–reliable, objective, fair, unlike fringe or partisan news sources–is gone forever. That is a good thing.
No one could follow this year’s campaign without understanding that the media formerly known as mainstream (sorry, Prince) have jettisoned any pretense of neutrality, or even of journalistic integrity, in their desperation to preserve the status quo by electing Hillary Clinton president. Fair enough. We know where they stand.
One of the last vestiges of liberal media’s pretense to authority is its legion of “fact checkers.” “Fact checkers” like PolitiFact, the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler and others purport to rule judiciously on claims made by candidates of both parties. In fact, as those who pay attention have long known, “fact checking,” in pretty much all cases, is just liberal activism under another name
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I have been a lifelong admirer of an observation I read about as a young man...
"Suicide is the sincerest form of self-criticism"
And, I might add, a most private of decisions, whether we approve of it or not.
R.I.P.
I prefer to call them elected criminals to emphasize the necessary role of the ignorant voter in enabling this major national fatal disease.
But they will!
The MAINSTREAM” MEDIA isn’t worth a thimble of spit.
Nearly match Hillary in the lying department.
Long over due. Now their merely the commie media.
They have become a joke.
The epithet "Presstitutes" has a nice ring to it as well.
bttt
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