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More humor. This time from the Reporters without borders. A journalistic version of amnesty international.
1 posted on 04/26/2018 12:43:02 AM PDT by BBell
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Interesting to know that they fling the predictable accusations towards conservative or leftist-taming leaders.


2 posted on 04/26/2018 12:56:30 AM PDT by setha (Resume where Pershing left off.)
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Norway is #1, huh? I wonder what would happen to reporters in Norway who write about certain . . . inconvenient facts.


3 posted on 04/26/2018 1:07:24 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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It us too bad that this suspicion of the press as a political tool has happened so recently.

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” 
― Thomas Jefferson

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.” 
― Thomas Jefferson

“… the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” 
― Thomas Jefferson, Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Ed. By T.J. Randolph

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” 
― Thomas Jefferson, Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Ed. By T.J. Randolph

4 posted on 04/26/2018 1:23:49 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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So called journalism is a threat to democracies.


6 posted on 04/26/2018 1:36:23 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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Yes, the people are hating media that takes sides and then tries to claim they are being objective.

It is laughable.


7 posted on 04/26/2018 1:48:55 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Just try to find conservative opinion or reporting in Canada.

It is not done.

Canada under Trudeau has Hate speech codes.

Yet they rate Canada higher than the U.S.


8 posted on 04/26/2018 1:55:20 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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I don’t hate journalism.

I miss it, actually.

I wish it was taught and practiced in this country.


9 posted on 04/26/2018 1:59:25 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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The article managed to totally ignore the big Mockingbird in the room—the manipulation of the media by intelligence agencies.

That has brought the mass media into disrepute.

The average working journalist is clueless, of course.

Stupid people should not be treated with respect either.


10 posted on 04/26/2018 2:05:31 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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“The unleashing of hatred towards journalists is one of the worst threats to democracies,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said.

It looks like RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire needs to take his foolish notion back to the drawing board, take a time out to think through his fallacious argument, and come back with a meaningful plan to produce real journalists.

Does he know the difference between propagandists and journalists?

Most of our USA based propaganda artists know nothing but blind hatred for President Trump, and would flunk out of a real and genuine school of journalism.

12 posted on 04/26/2018 2:38:55 AM PDT by olezip
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13 posted on 04/26/2018 2:56:56 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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A media-bashing enthusiast, Trump has referred to reporters “enemies of the people,” the term once used by Joseph Stalin.

So RSF tries to get away with "guilt by association" where there is not even any association. How very Stalinist of RSF to attempt that.

“The unleashing of hatred towards journalists is one of the worst threats to democracies,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “Political leaders who fuel loathing for reporters bear heavy responsibility because they undermine the concept of public debate based on facts instead of propaganda. To dispute the legitimacy of journalism today is to play with extremely dangerous political fire.”

Crocodile tears much? Since when has 'journalism' been about 'facts'? Either Christophe Deloire is intentionally lying or else he is stupidly ignorant. Most 'mainstream journalism' in the US today is in fact propaganda, with ugly lies being substituted for facts, and with lies of omission being particularly rampant. 'They' think that if they do not report it, they can hide it - 'they' got away with it for a long time, but in the Internet age their choke-hold on reporting has been broken.

If reporters don't like being loathed, perhaps they should try reporting truthfully for a change, instead of pushing ugly leftist agendas.

14 posted on 04/26/2018 3:08:30 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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"A media-bashing enthusiast, Trump has referred to reporters “enemies of the people,” the term once used by Joseph Stalin." Wonder what the writer thinks of dear Uncle Walter and his grand contribution to the profession, eh?
15 posted on 04/26/2018 3:15:18 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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They don’t get it- the hostility towards reporters is due to the reporters’ themselves- their lack of professionalism, lack of ethics, their blatant bias, laziness, herd mentality, frequent and displays of ignorance, and most of all their arrogant condescending attitudes.


18 posted on 04/26/2018 3:50:09 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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ABDNCBS is not journalism, it is propaganda. Other than Fox News and a few websites there is no real journalism in America.


20 posted on 04/26/2018 4:33:05 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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Social media is supplanting dinosaur journalism with citizen journalists. Their angst is self induced.


21 posted on 04/26/2018 4:38:54 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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"More and more democratically-elected leaders no longer see the media as part of democracy’s essential underpinning, but as an adversary to which they openly display their aversion."

Yes. ALL truthful people and truth seekers see "the media" as such--as a profoundly corrupt enemy of truth which corrodes the essential underpinning of democracy.

Truthful people and truth seekers are averse to propaganda, and a propaganda machine exactly what the "news media" has become.

In the USA, the "mainstream news media" is nothing more than a propaganda machine for the Democrat Party and Democrat politicians. Honest people and truth seekers are absolutely right to hold it and its agents in utter contempt--and they do.

22 posted on 04/26/2018 4:50:02 AM PDT by Savage Beast (MAGA!!!!!)
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If they’d quit lying and pushing their agenda, and just post news stories, nobody would *hate* them.


23 posted on 04/26/2018 5:06:10 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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But, no danger to Constitutional Republics!


24 posted on 04/26/2018 5:15:21 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Democrats in California want another civil war over cheap labor!)
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Distrust and hatred of the media all over the world. Who would have thought that the media lying to the people all over the world would cause this? (S)


25 posted on 04/26/2018 5:24:30 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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Maybe if they tried being Journalists, rather then propaganda whores for the DNC, people would take them seriously.

Instead this is the same usual whine from these narcissistic clowns any time they are being held accountable for their actions


26 posted on 04/26/2018 5:27:36 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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