“And look for the media to ‘Gosnell’ the hearings.” Gosnell, MSM blackout of a significant event. Should be added to the FR Dictinary.What we need is not a name for the particular tactic, but a proper name for what we have been calling “the media.” IMHO that name should be, "conspiracy journalism”“Liberals” who hate Adam Smith love his statement that "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” What “liberals” do not discuss is the fact that the Associated Press newswire is a virtual meeting of all the major journalistic institutions in the country. If there is any truth at all to Smith’s dictum, a meeting of “people of the same trade” which has been operating continuously since the middle of the Nineteenth Century must, by now, have devolved into little else but "a conspiracy against the public.”
If AP journalism is a “conspiracy,” what does it do to the public? Conspiracy journalism misleads the public into trusting the untrustworthy, and distrusting the trustworthy. People who work successfully to a bottom line are trustworthy, and people who seek authority without responsibility are untrustworthy. Conspiracy journalism promotes “the critic” and denigrates “the man in the arena.” Give the critic authority, and he will fail to execute his nominal mission even as well as the man he criticized. But what the critic will do successfully is deflect any criticism of his performance by boasting of his wonderful intentions. With the full support of conspiracy journalism.
“But here’s one for you to add to the FR Dictinary: D-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-r-y.”
ha.. thanks. Dang iPad.