”Made in China” Ping.
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“At one time, the American press was well-respected throughout the world.”
Really? That must be before my time.
Was it ever???
Excellent article J, thanks for posting it!
I knew about the first two things on this list by monitoring the stories here on FR!
This is why the sucess of the new media, of talkradio and the internet.
Nuff said.
That is a conclusion I came to more than 10 years ago and nothing has changed which would cause me to reevaluate.
You know that, I know that and most people on FR know that, but unfortunately the sheeple (majority) of this country don't have a clue. Whats really scary is that they really don't want a clue because that would require thinking and thinking is really hard and it's much easier to have some pompous leftist moron on the tube do it for them. Worst of all, thinking for yourself could cause, horrors of horrors, un-pc thought.
They are indeed, no longer a source of relevant information, but in that so many continue to be dependant upon the MSM for what little they 'know' about our nation and the world, the MSM remains a relevant source of information, by virtue of the very masses they infuse with their lies and drivel.
“At one time, the American press was well-respected throughout the world.”
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Perhaps in the 1930’s and 1940’s, but during my lifetime, they have always lied, yet no where near as bad as they do now.
Speaking of blind squirrels and irrelevant sources, my wirehaired doxie writes better than Jack Russell. What an awkward, cliche-ridden waste of pixels.
When the American newsmedia made the decision to become a propaganda machine instead of a provider of truth and information it damned itself to irrelevance and ignominy. It has earned the scorn and disgust of decent, honest people now and for all time.
Maybe that's because they were able to get away with their lies and deceptions more easily before talk radio and the internet though. For example:
The Ukrainian Holocaust of 1932-33:
"To curry Stalin's favor, for example, Walter Duranty - the Moscow based reporter of the New York Times, repeatedly denied the existence of a famine in his articles (while privately estimating that about ten million people starved to death). For the "profundity, impartiality, sound judgment and exceptional clarity" of his dispatches from the USSR, Duranty received the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
I don’t think it was unbiased back then either. It’s just all the people had. The gatekeepers have been defeated.