That and it’s not about facts and the accuracy of the story, it’s about the “narrative” and whether it fits...
Yes, the whole concept of “the narrative” needs to be discarded. It’s just a convenient shorthand for saying, “I’ve made up a lovely little story which helps me push my ideological agenda and will allow me to push people like you into the dirt”. Most of what the media and the politicians say is simply designed to fit “the narrative”.
How about some Truth?
Whatever fits - dodging bullets at the airport.
The fundamental facts of “liberalism” are:
- Whereas T. Roosevelt said, “the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . who does actually try to do the deeds,” socialists are cynical critics who insist that the credit belongs the them.
- Journalists perceive, rightly, that bad news sells, and “No news is good news” because good news “isn’t news.” Bad news is the journalist’s stock-in-trade. But . . .
- A laser-like focus on bad news is not “objectivity,” it is a bias. Journalism is inherently biased, because a negative bias enables journalists to make money.
- Journalists know that they are focused on the negative, and yet they insist that they are objective. But . . .
- Equating negativity with objectivity is a perfect definition of “cynicism.”
- ”The narrative” is that people are cynical about the work of producing goods or services are virtuous “public servants” or “objective journalists.”