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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: Rev M. Bresciani

Opinion piece, lies, opinion piece, lies, opinion piece, lies, opinion piece, lies, opinion piece, lies...


41 posted on 03/09/2025 8:45:19 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

I got to see an early introduction to this in my teens and early twenties when I often read remarks from hockey writers at establishment media outlets about how stupid veteran NHL players (Guy Lafleur, Rod Langway, Al Secord, Brad Marsh and a few others) were to continue playing without helmets even when it became obvious that they were generally treated with that good bit more respect when it came to high sticks or elbows or cheap shots from behind.

Ones like Don Cherry and others correctly warned about phasing the helmets (and later shields) in would lead to more injuries to the head and neck area from the lack of regard and respect to the head area. Now you have all sorts of players who wore helmets either voluntarily or were covered by the NHL’s 1979 law suing the league over concussions and head trauma. I know it is maybe that bit silly to mention something like this but it still shows in a way the wisdom (or lack thereof) of the media in trying to force opinions on people.


42 posted on 03/09/2025 8:53:52 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving crowd


43 posted on 03/09/2025 8:55:45 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: shotgun

I bet the fib file on ole Walter showed him to be a communist.we will never know.


44 posted on 03/09/2025 8:59:20 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Rev M. Bresciani
By the end of his term in office, the media was spinning the ‘unspinnable’, denying that the economy was a disaster, that inflation was devastating American families

and the media continues to do so and, instead, pretends that high inflation and other challenges started two months ago. Also, Greenfield leaves out of his narrative the damage the media did to itself during COVID. They killed anyone who didn’t dare ascribe to the madness of masks and lockdowns.

45 posted on 03/09/2025 8:59:23 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Cold_Red_Steel

I remember seeing that news spot as a kid and knew what it meant.


46 posted on 03/09/2025 9:01:27 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Mermaid Girl

The last few conservatives in media were Harry Reasoner and Howard K Smith on ABC News. I liked them in my youth, early to mid 1970’s. The last good non communist on ABC was David Brinkley who finished his career on This Week every Sunday. It was the last time I ever watched a news program on Sunday morning since they put George Stephanopoulos in his place. The partisanship of ABC was undeniable at that point.


47 posted on 03/09/2025 9:23:29 AM PDT by webheart (We have to call them what they are: Communists. They are not liberal or progressive. Eed Plebnista. )
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48 posted on 03/09/2025 9:56:21 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The media decline began ca. 1907 when Joseph Pulitzer’s New York City newspaper was found to have libled President Theodore Roosevelt.


49 posted on 03/09/2025 9:59:46 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

Yuri Bezmenov warned that the commies were taking over our schools and teaching American kids to hate their country. Generations later those kids are running the media, under the control of the intelligence agencies.


50 posted on 03/09/2025 10:34:24 AM PDT by CtBigPat
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To: Rev M. Bresciani
The media has served the purpose of bypassing laws involving donations to political candidates by giving illegal political contributions-in-kind.

"You pay us and we run the story for you."

51 posted on 03/09/2025 10:39:24 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Jim Noble

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

I think the media loved and protected JFK all along, I don’t get your post.


52 posted on 03/09/2025 3:15:22 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Rev M. Bresciani

How JFK Censored Right-Wing Radio
https://www.cato.org/policy-report/march/april-2020/how-jfk-censored-right-wing-radio


53 posted on 03/09/2025 4:16:18 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

“President John F. Kennedy launched the most successful censorship campaign of the past half century. Its target was the Radio Right, an informal network of conservative broadcasters who reached millions of listeners across the country by the early 1960s.”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/psq.12450?msockid=3d8ee800649c69ba1c32fca6656c68e5


54 posted on 03/09/2025 4:19:38 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: mewzilla

TV news has been mostly agitprop since the days of Walter Cronkite at least. Where has this guy been?


55 posted on 03/09/2025 4:34:57 PM PDT by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I can remember when Time was a favorably looked-at publication in schools. Maybe it still is.....in some schools.


56 posted on 03/09/2025 5:09:23 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: Dan in Wichita

A significant portion of social media consists of reposts from MSM news clips.


57 posted on 03/09/2025 6:20:40 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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EXCLUSIVE: Dumped Host Joy Reid Set to ‘Scream Bloody Murder’ Over Being Axed from MSNBC – ‘She Knows Where the Bodies are Buried and Is Getting Set to Torch Network to Ground!’

Photo of Joy Reid Source: MEGA

Joy Reid, axed from MSNBC, is reportedly preparing to reveal network secrets and cause turmoil.

Radaronline.com Staff——March 13 2025

An unrepentant Joy Reid is set to scream bloody murder and seek vengeance against MSNBC for canceling her show, The ReidOut, and unceremoniously kicking her out the door, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The 56-year-old anchor, who had been with MSNBC for over a decade, is said to be furious over what she sees as a backstabbing betrayal from the very network she helped build.

joy reid expose msnbc after host axe
Source: WIKIPEDIA; MEGA——Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Nicolle Wallace were part of Joy Reid’s internal revolt against MSNBC’s new direction.

An MSNBC insider said: “She’s livid, and she knows everything. She’s ready to burn the house down.” According to sources, Reid signed her own death warrant by holding an internal summit with other anchors, including Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Nicolle Wallace, to unite in battle against the network’s new strategy to be less left-wing biased.

Reid also took to the air to liken President Donald Trump’s tactics with fascism. Meanwhile, the liberal television personality has been blasted for her own racially charged rhetoric in saying that Americans were afraid of a “brown invasion” over the border and that Black people would be “weird” if they didn’t vote for Kamala Harris. She also blamed Harris’s loss in November on “white women” who “did not show up” for her.

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MSNBC bosses are said to be eyeing further lay-offs at the network. with the likes of Joy Reid, above, having already dramatically exited the network.

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58 posted on 03/14/2025 9:12:55 AM PDT by Liz
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