Posted on 11/01/2016 10:58:13 AM PDT by The Revolutionary Act
A quarter century in the mainstream media establishment furnished me with ample evidence of how the media shades and distorts coverage in the most professional and yet opaque ways — so ingrained that the shading is all but invisible to the journalists doing it.
The media’s multi-generational predilection has become established journalism. The worldview defining what is newsworthy and why, and what is not and why not, is now a foundational part of journalism. That it reflects one worldview over a competing worldview is undeniable for those looking at life through the competing worldview. But this truth is invisible to those practicing journalism, because the newsworthy industry standard fits like a glove with their worldview. Of course it’s good journalism! We all agree!
Most reporters and editors I worked with were mystified at the accusation of bias, or simply chalked it up to my own conservative proclivities. That my conservatism might inform my view of journalism was perfectly clear to them. That their liberalism might inform their view of journalism was bewildering to them, because by every journalistic standard they were practicing professional journalism. The reason they could not see the bias was not a lack of intelligence or dishonesty, but that journalism was defined through the basis of liberalism and therefore they did not see any bias.
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The is mostly right. When your assumptions about reality are false, it is hard to make good decisions.
But there is more than that. Many of those in the “progressive” world view have no compunction about lying or cheating to advance their agenda. They see the Constitution, and oaths to uphold it as “quaint” or “outdated”. They see any restraint on their actions as illegitimate.
Actually Wilileaks, the 2008 Jour-0-List and other inheritances of activey colussion has show modern “Journalism” is actively colluding with the DNC and Leftist candiates to manipulate coverage.
The 92% negative coverage of Trump was not just an unfortunate accident.
“Journalists” deny it because it would require them to question their deeply cherished illusions about the supposed “nobility” of the profession. They live in a state of denial rather then confront the hard facts that challenge their disillusion.
In my college days, virtually everyone who had any political view at all was either a liberal or an occasional self-declared Trotskyite or Communist.
They viewed any other thoughts (conservative, libertarian, anarchist, whatever) as an insult to the body politic.
Since they were on a mission to make the world perfect anyone who got in the way was quickly dismissed as either irrelevant or stupid.
Their self-esteem was totally tied up in their belief system.
They literally could not function in a world where their beliefs were not validated and supported.
Welcome to the press room!
And, needless to say, there was no tactic too devious for them. They were fighting for justice and to save the world!
Their other defining characteristic—every one of them—is that they were arrogant and often down-right nasty.
Fish do not know they are wet, and abhor the dry.
I should add how I try to persuade them—had a chance at that today.
I was talking to a liberal and I knew he was convinced Hillary was heading towards a landslide victory (since he reads and believes the New York slime).
I just asked him if he saw the ABC poll today on the Presidential race. He said he hadn’t and asked me what it said. I said “ABC says the race is even”. He was stunned, and said, “Well, of course, Hillary will still win, right.” And I said, the truth is “nobody knows”.
And—he didn’t argue the point.
See—dragged him an inch closer to reality.
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There is another aspect. To run a news organization that actually conducts its own investigations and sends reporters out to remote sites and writes its own material...is tedious and requires upper-level review of everything to assure compliance with whatever standards happen to be in effect. You need reporters and writers and editors and the stuff takes time to put out. To run a news service that simply sucks AP, Reuters stories off the wire, and even more insidiously, gets its talking points directly from the administration (in the case where the admin is what their designated subject matter is) costs pretty much nothing and can be staffed with eager interns or recent J-school grads.
It’s massively cheaper and since the copy just directly parrots what the admin wants you to say, there’s less need for compliance checking or veracity checking because hey, athe WaPo and the NYTimes and the Des Moines Register all say the same thing.
Very good article - thanks for posting.
I disagree with this article - it’s a cover story. All journalists know they are scheming, sold-out liars. They work for money, fame and status - and that’s it. They consider themselves “realists” above the riff raff, and develop cruel, sarcastic personalities. At heart they are all precocious teenagers who live to party and get away with as much as they can. That’s the fun and excitement, to be part of the in crowd, to know secrets, to blackmail. They are terminally narcissistic and their language is designed solely to deceive. In short, they are evil whores, sold out to the highest bidder, shamelessly and with a smile. In many ways they are the nadir of the human race, even lower than politicians, bureaucrats or lawyers. They are the flies on the sh!t of life, and they breathe deeply and love every second of it. Their souls are utterly, completely lost.
Huh, and here I thought that the video, radio, and print media were just a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC.
Even Goebbels couldn’t hold a candle to the US MSM when it comes to party propaganda.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t the 1962 communist agenda say that they should take over the media?
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
re: All journalists know they are scheming, sold-out liars
Not all “journalists” know they are scheming. Example: Bill Kurtis of Chicago and Agent Orange fame.
Kurtis is the prototype for Ted Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Kurtis has no clue how he is used by his producer and others around him.
“Journalists” are on a continuum from the extreme of naivete to Alinsky-Machiavellian. Some are more naive on some aspects of journalism than others. Of those who are very much aware they are just mouthpieces for their producer some are aware the producer lies and they are repeating the lies while others are naive and don’t realize the producer lies ... even when they know that they are puppets of the producer.
Yes, there is a spectrum. But people who do not accept the “progressive” world view are quickly weeded out.
The news is always framed from the Democrat perspective.
-PJ
One inch at a time!
I had one extra little trick there.
I told the liberal that the ABC poll was even.
When he checks it out he will see it was Trump ahead by one.
That improves my credibility—since I understated the number—even though just by a little bit—and that adds to the “shock value” when he sees the poll.
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