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How The Media Killed Itself
New American Prophet ^ | March 9, 2025 | Daniel Greenfield

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 ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; History; Society
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; internet; media; msnbc; zuckerberg
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To: FamiliarFace

The influence of the legacy media may have declined but it’s still powerful. I know lots of people who simply repeat what they read in the NYT and WaPo, and who are terrified that Trump will become a dictator any day now.


21 posted on 03/09/2025 7:33:29 AM PDT by phil00071 (ka )
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

The Viet Cong credited Walter Cronkite’s reporting for encouraging them to hold on even while they were losing. They knew he was eroding domestic support for the US Military actions.


22 posted on 03/09/2025 7:35:54 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: SMARTY

They act like teenagers because they’re teenagers. Go to any college graduation and you’ll see hundreds of graduates in the Journalism school. That is what flooded our media. Neophyte journalism graduates that thought they were so smart ready to be part of the group think media and now wishing they were part of the podcast journalism world. Journalism majorsare the new communication major Easy A degree.They are desperate for bodies at this point.Journalism School will soon all close.


23 posted on 03/09/2025 7:36:27 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

I remember Rather Dan, the night of *Crinton’s big win, blurt out, “We now take you to the spin room...” I knew then.


24 posted on 03/09/2025 7:40:25 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

The habit of Reading three newspapers a day from elementary school age on died in the 90s, killed by the uselessness of the papers themselves.


25 posted on 03/09/2025 7:46:27 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

The media went from being biased in how the reported the news (note that they REPORTED on ACTUAL NEWS) to trying to shape “the news”. More than ever they decided what even was news and tried to craft narratives rather than talk about the events that were happening organically.

They did this at precisely the time the internet dramatically lowered barriers to entry in the form of podcasts, YouTube and Rumble channels, etc. Now suddenly a much more broad array of voices could be heard - including international ones. Now significant events that were very inconvenient because they undercut the narrative could not be ignored. People compared and contrasted this with what they were seeing on TV and realized the corporate media was just propaganda....that is especially so as the corporate media got literally everything wrong. Every “conspiracy theory” turned out to be true. For years.


26 posted on 03/09/2025 8:01:34 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: DeplorablePaul
Obama doesn’t get enough blame for how he wrecked America. It’s all his fault.

Exactly! I've long said this. 2007 was a watershed. Obama came along and the mask slipped completely. They no longer even pretended to be objective or to have any professional standards at all. For example, Obama goes abroad and all 3 network anchors follow him to broadcast following him around overseas. McCain (yuck! What an awful choice we had back then) goes abroad and they ignore it and claim its "not news". They literally did this! They practically fellated Obama live on air every night. It was stomach turning to watch.

27 posted on 03/09/2025 8:04:27 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

Great article,


28 posted on 03/09/2025 8:05:57 AM PDT by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel.)
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To: Mermaid Girl
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.

I was born in 1970 and I remember from a very early age how my dad complained bitterly about how biased the media was. He was 100% correct. He passed in 1996 and couldn't have known how much worse it would get.

29 posted on 03/09/2025 8:06:25 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: brownsfan

I just said the same thing. 2007 was when the mask slipped. They were always biased as hell. They stopped even pretending once Obama came along.


30 posted on 03/09/2025 8:07:37 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

Good Night Chet. Good Night David.

And Good Night to NBC News.

For Ever, Good Night. To all of you.

MSM Propagandists. CIA and MI6 Agents Provocateur.

You Blew it, you Lying Liars.

The Fourth Estate has become the Fifth Column. Promoting lies, deception, Marxism, moral degradation - awful.

This is why Get Rid of The TV.

Get It Out of The House.

Protect your brain and thoughts from these people.


31 posted on 03/09/2025 8:10:14 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: SMARTY

“Our ‘media’ conducts itself like a bunch of star struck teen agers.” Specifically, teenage girls. I spent many years in “journalism” and witnessed its feminization firsthand. With each passing year, more female (cis-female — this was before the tranny fetish had kicked into high gear) journalism school grads joined the editorial staff and the drift leftward into emotional and fashionable reporting began in earnest. Of course there are still plenty of males in the business, but their views have tended to evolve similarly over time. The feminization of our entire culture continues apace.


32 posted on 03/09/2025 8:12:05 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: DeplorablePaul

Not all Obama’s fault, but he had quite a bit to do with it.

For me, it’s the shitification of everything and the permissive atmosphere of further shitification it creates.


33 posted on 03/09/2025 8:19:32 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

I once told the editor of a local newspaper, that when I subscribed to his paper everyday I used to read the front page, the editorials and the comics. I quit subscribing when most days I couldn’t tell much difference between these sections.


34 posted on 03/09/2025 8:21:44 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Blurb2350
"...The feminization of our entire culture continues apace..." I think this is key. Not efficient or stable...way too emotional!!!

No organization functions properly or efficiently if it's run by females...whether it's a family, a busines or a country!!

Example: My mother's familly was all females. I have no uncles on that side. That family was continually at odds. They couldn't get together to plan a picnic. Mom's sisters nursed long standing grudges and spite. My mom was the only one that everyone ELSE got along with, because she was a pure soul.

I was the lucky one and used to tell dad, 'You married the right one out of all those girls'.

35 posted on 03/09/2025 8:21:45 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: mewzilla
The decline began long before a couple of decades ago...

Yes, the HBM (Has Been Media) has been very biased for at least 50 years.

36 posted on 03/09/2025 8:29:19 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Rev M. Bresciani; Lazamataz
The reality is that the media killed itself.

That is only a symptom of the more pervasive rot: Positive reinforcement brainwashing works: from kindergarten, to graduate school, and thereafter mass media advertising. It took media corporations only selecting employees who ascribe to that Marxist university culture to feed itself into ideologically morbid obesity as channeled and amplified by the oligopoly broadcast media once enjoyed. McLuhan was right: the media was the message and that message was: We the major stockholders are in charge.

In that respect the Internet represented a sea change, in which capital could not control ALL outlets. FreeRepublic.com was crucial to planting those early seeds of independent mass education and I am proud to have had a part in exposing the regulatory scam corporate foundation stockholders were playing for fun and profit laundering their money through NGOs (MANY here at FR were not ready to hear that message in 2001; still believing 'all private business is good' if you will).

At that time FR could have been a conservative Facebook, and the reasons for that missed opportunity should be examined but I'm convinced it hinged on two things: the LAT/WP lawsuit and that conservative Internet alternatives to FR (such as Brietbart or Frontpage) all started allowing posters. As truths spread, distrust in mass media spread with them. Once Elon bought Twitter and more people learned how to post links, the floodgates opened, but only for the disaffected. Those happy with their brainwashing (especially acadeemics and bureaucrats) now form the elistist Democrat Party now isolated from its former base by the sheer volume of independent posting.

Positive reinforcement in public education, cable, and advertising remains relatively untouched. Getting rid of the DOE will only be a blip to that monolith. There remain two institutions that MUST be demolished: teachers' unions and university accreditation, the former by vouchers and the latter by competition against their own irrelevance and financial overhead as compared to independent online education with AI facilitators. I promise you, with AI will come testing for hire that will render degrees irrelevant. All that will remain of the university behemoth will be post-graduate degrees in STEM fields involving hands-on laboratory work, particularly field work.

37 posted on 03/09/2025 8:35:11 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: FamiliarFace

thanks ... and here’s the archive text-only version:

https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2025/03/how-media-killed-itself.html


38 posted on 03/09/2025 8:36:24 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Cold_Red_Steel
The Viet Cong credited Walter Cronkite’s reporting for encouraging them to hold on even while they were losing. They knew he was eroding domestic support for the US Military actions.

That is correct and has been documented by the VC and former generals of the North Vietnamese army. After their failed Tet Offensive, they were about ready to throw in the towel with the understanding they could never defeat the U.S. in a military confrontation. But when they saw Cronkite's misrepresentation of the truth, they shifted their strategy to winning the war on the streets of America. The commies were successful and sent the U.S. into a long tailspin.
39 posted on 03/09/2025 8:37:35 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: ClearCase_guy

President Kennedy was not popular on 11/21/63, and a lot of what has become the regime media was critical of him. He had a connection with WaPo, that was about it.

After he was dead, Saint Kennedy was very popular with the media, since he could no longer speak for himself.


40 posted on 03/09/2025 8:44:18 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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