Posted on 03/09/2025 6:50:51 AM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani
Over the last twenty years, the media, an institution that had defined American politics in the twentieth century, began a decline that has wiped out its influence, its finances and its future.
Ask anyone in the media what happened and they will blame the internet, social media, disinformation, echo chambers and other tired buzzwords directing the fault elsewhere.
The reality is that the media killed itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at new.americanprophet.org ...
Direct link to Greenfield’s piece.
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/03/how-media-killed-itself.html
The decline began long before a couple of decades ago...
Internet killed the video star.
“The Obama campaign marked a decisive turning point in the media’s shift from a bias to a narrative.”
Obama doesn’t get enough blame for how he wrecked America. It’s all his fault.
btt
The media became cheerleaders for the Left with JFK. It’s been downhill for over 60 years.
Greenfield has said nothing about the censorship of dissenting voices on the Covid jab (or about big pharma’s influence on the misleadia, through its advertising dollars).
“The media became cheerleaders for the Left with JFK. It’s been downhill for over 60 years.”
I wasn’t alive during the Great Depression or WWII, but I think the media loved them some FDR. Wasn’t he basically a cripple near the end of his last term and the media felt it wasn’t newsworthy to report that to the citizenry?
Exactly. I remember in the mid 70s my Dad was already complaining about the leftist spin to the news.
By the 80s, it was full on propaganda.
“Obama doesn’t get enough blame for how he wrecked America. It’s all his fault.”
I agree, Obama was true to his word on the fundamental transformation of America. I think the media did drop any kind of pretense of objectivity with Obama. In the media’s view, there is no impartiality when it comes to “the one”, Obama. It seems to me that when the media quit trying to pretend to be objective, it was beyond easy for them to align against Trump. Trump was and is, undoing much of what Obama did, thank God.
But now, it leaves the media exposed as Democrat shills.
The “media” killed itself when it became the main tentacle of the DNC. It ran their 2024 “election” and now the low life morons are running the RAT Resistance Hate show. One hate article after another. The “media” is nothing but hate, hate, hate. Hate America, hate women, hate Caucasians, hate parents, hate Christians, hate Americans who don’t hold the DNC’s evil core values, hate female athletes, hate the U.S. taxpayers. Hate, Hate, Hate.
They lionize any and every photogenic bimbo or wealthy thug who spews that Marxist drivel they have been dining out on since college!
Finally, a quite successful businessman came along and decided to run for President in 2016 while consistently telling the American public about the “lying” media (MSM). Then, an African - American bought TWITTER!!
I had dropped my subscriptions to Time, Newsweek, and the Boston Globe by 1991, long before the internet was a force. The reason was not so much political slant, but the utterly insipid tone and style.
They had become boring scolds.
It’s only gotten worse. They are unreadable and uninteresting.
When I was in 5th grade I had a friend who’s family was democrats. I remember telling him that if Walter Cronkite told you every night that your toaster would blow up, everyone would get rid of their toasters. That was in 1970.
They took the easy government money. They started in the 1950’s with mockingbird, they got them all on the government tit. They became dependent on the government, started to parrot what they were told. Then comes Obama, and the media is silent on his past, his birth certificate, his mom’s job and employment, his family, and his personal past.
Next it lies about a disease called COVID, says it came from bat soup. The lied about a demented man, whose signature via auto pen was used by unelected people to rob the treasury and murder citizens.
The media needs to go after the story, even the one about them lying to the public for government money. Then, and only then, can they recover.
Disagree. The media starting changing the story long before twenty years ago. This has been going on for our country’s life anyway involving us. The only difference is that the presentation now is far more saturated and thus reaches many more people with their opinions based upon agendas rather than the facts.
wy69
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