Posted on 03/30/2022 3:38:38 AM PDT by Libloather
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle blasted the legacy media for its collective dismissal of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election.
In a piece published on Saturday, McArdle began by noting what a friend coined was a "growing 'epistemic closure' on the right" that filters out what is reported in the distrusted liberal media.
"This frets the mainstream media. It is our job to provide information, so naturally we worry when so many customers aren’t buying… In fact, we in the mainstream have been so busy denouncing ‘fake news’ that we failed to notice we’re developing a wee disinformation problem of our own - much of which has stemmed, ironically, from our efforts to fight disinformation on the right," McArdle told readers.
She then turned to the New York Post's bombshell reporting about Hunter Biden's laptop, which included emails that implicated his father, then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden, and how the "information gatekeepers scrambled to keep this story from polluting the mainstream’s pristine infoscape" using various tactics like calling the story "Russian disinformation" or a "distraction" to Big Tech's suppression of the report.
"That’s a whole lot of effort to suppress a story that seems to be … true?" McArdle wrote, citing The New York Times' recent report that authenticated the laptop's contents. "One week into the ‘Oops, it was real’ news cycle, I have now heard all the excuses as to why this actually is an instance of journalism and tech moderation working like they should. It was unverified, I’ve heard. Too close to an election. And even if the emails were real, they may have been obtained illegally - can’t have that!"
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The legacy media may not have an obligation to spend ink on this or that political scandal, but damn them for reporting the Biden affair as fake. That among countless instances where what they choose to report is woefully inaccurate and/or perverted to fit the leftist narrative. F’em like the f themselves.
The Steele dossier was fake, but they pushed it like it was verified.
Hunter’s laptop was real, but they dismissed it as Russian disinformation.
Government and media working together to lie to the American people.
Not “entirely” trustworthy?? Try not trustworthy AT ALL.
The Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column.
“Gee this Goebbels fellow does seem to get a lot of things wrong.”
tepid water.
tepid prose; the critics' tepid reception for the new play.
The WaPo is depraved and an enemy of America. But give them this, they found a way to get people to pay for them to create propaganda that poisons their readers lives and destroys America. They’re clever.
Oh, Megan, honey, you have no idea.
It never bothered them when they lost tons of money on the process. They weren’t designed to be profitable businesses; they are simply part of the cost of running a political machine.
What’s starting to bother them now is the realization that you can’t be an effective propaganda tool if nobody believes you.
“aren’t entirely trustworthy”
He still doesn’t get it. He still thinks that there is any aspect of trustworthiness left in the media and there’s not. The phrase “not entirely trustworthy” implies that, well... sometimes they can be trusted... NOPE!!! And it’s clear to me that they’re beyond reform. They have absolutely poisoned the well and it will take Generations to fix.
Little bit.
In the old Soviet Union the average citizen knew that “Pravda” was not “truth” but rather a pile of lies.
After a while they learned to ignore it.
However, there was still one problem.
If they talked about how the mass media was lying in a public forum they could lose their job or become an outcast in social settings.
They did not know that this was a precursor to the West’s “cancel culture”.
Some folks around here are still in denial while they whine about Russia, Russia, Russia.
The US is acting just like the old Soviet Union—there is one approved narrative and anyone who suggests otherwise is peddling “false news”, “disinformation” and conspiracy theories—even if today’s approved narrative contradicts yesterday’s approved narrative!
(Examples of bizarre contradictions in the narrative during the Covid craziness:
—Two weeks to flatten the curve became two years to flatten the curve
—Masks were useless then they became essential
—Health care workers who were unvaxxed because there were no vaxxes were “heros” and then some of those same health care workers became “zeros” who were fired when they refused to take the vaxxes.)
Remember the story decades ago about $600 hammers? Those hammers are the propaganda tool.
She writes: “In fact, we in the mainstream have been so busy denouncing ‘fake news’ that we failed to notice we’re developing a wee disinformation problem of our own...”
OMG, a “wee” disinformation problem? You “in the mainstream” are 80% propaganda. That’s not a “wee” problem. You’ve utterly destroyed your credibility.
And notice of course, as is the modus operandi of the Left loons, they accept zero personal responsibility and it’s always someone else’s fault: “much of which has stemmed, ironically, from our efforts to fight disinformation on the right,”
“Disinformation on the right” was propaganda from day one.
The notion than an elite gets to decide what is true and what is “disinformation” is pure evil.
Those who peddle it are the enemies of human liberty around the world.
That is one reason why the Big Tech firms need to broken up into a million pieces—they have been possessed by evil.
And leftist news will never be trusted again...ever.
When I read that” wee” I got a big belly laugh. Don’t forget the ZimmerBS that was pushed along with the Rittenhouse lies, the lies about Sandman. A “wee bit” seems to be large enough to encompass the western skies.
+1. Even the local media is so out of touch, it’s not worth the powder to blow it sideways. All we watch is the weather.
“Remember the story decades ago about $600 hammers? Those hammers are the propaganda tool.”
Are you talking about the fake story that the government paid $600 for hammers because they were used in an aircraft when the real story is of government contractor definition creep, in that when the specification for the contract said that all things metal on the aircraft will be made out of titanium they included the Hammers under that blanket statement.
Another was the titanium toilet seats which followed under the same guise that acft components had to be made out of titanium due to weight AND the survivability of equipment in crashes at the speeds involved.
The soviet space pencil is another Gov’t acquitions tale of woe... but lessons learned mind you...
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