![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fiGVhiSe7Es/UC2iXPZr6dI/AAAAAAAAIBo/dnH7JqKKqVQ/s1600/sidepicture.jpg"left")
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
To get on or off the Greenfield ping list please reply to this post.
Next year, the Post suffered an 85% earnings loss. Baron’s plan to save the paper had failed. Instead what made it a powerhouse again was the flow of anti-Trump hit pieces. As Baron euphemistically put it, “I think there’s a direct connection between investigative reporting and subscriptions.”
“The people who are subscribing clearly want us to do investigative reporting... that’s something they are willing to pay for,” he said. But he was playing coy. Those subscribers wanted anti-Trump hit pieces. . They expected the paper to bring down President Trump. They were investing in dead tree media the way they invested in any left-wing political campaign. The Post had become just another PAC.
The media’s business model was to become Media Matters. The parasite had eaten the beast.
The stories fit Baron’s definition of fake news as “stories that have no basis in fact” and “disseminating bizarre conspiracy theories.”
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos bought the Post for $250 million and invested another $50 million in it. Bezos is famously intolerant of failure. The paper must deliver growth and its growth strategy is Trump fake news.
[You are forced to] making up stuff so you don’t get fired, is now the modus operandi of the entire Washington Post.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/16849/americans-know-65-polled-say-msm-full-fake-news-joseph-curl
The China Daily is a more reliable source of news than any of the U.S. media outlets. I mean that as no exaggeration. We are living in an age where “news” is all propaganda.
When YouTube Vloggers became the reliable source of news, Youtube demonitized anyone putting out political content that was not in keeping with the approved propaganda message.
Those Youtubers are increasing relying on ads they insert into their vlogs and Patreon direct viewer contributions.
I make patreon contributions on a monthly recurring basis for about six of my favorite YouTube news vlogs but I am not made of money. And I contribute here on most FR fundraisers.
Sad how the free press has been lost. I am of the opinion the first amendment protections afforded the mainstream media need to be done away with.
no
I’ve added NYT, WaPo, HuffPo, Buzzfeed, and their fellow travelers to my do-not-read list. If I see a link to one, I do not follow it.
Can’t remember last time I read a story on one of those sites that was actually both meaningful and true, so it’s no loss.
Excellent article. So how much are the fake news posters making posting Fake News on Free Republic?
Are they paid by the post or by the hits or a combination of both?
Great analysis.
Spot on.
Off topic question. Went to research something found in a WaPo article, tried to get on Nachumlist. Anybody know what happened to him/her? Where research went? According to twitter, he/she hasn’t posted since December. Last notification I received from FR was Jan 2016. So much research! Would love to know if anyone downloaded.
Ping.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
To get on or off the Greenfield ping list please reply to this post.
There is no news in Pravda.
There is no truth in Izvestia.
The Krokodil is always laughing.
People won't trust them. Not just traditional Americans - even their fans won't trust them... They'll be read for laughs. Picked up in grocery store lines..
New York Times lies will get wilder, crazier - - to bring in the big clicks. Decent journalists won't work there - even if the money is better.
Then what will the New York Times have? Nothing.
They'll be one more trashy tabloid... among many. They'll carry the name of a once great newspaper but that name having been dragged through the filth will foreever be a whore.
Come on Jeremy Peters, you guys can do better...
You will like the analysis in this article.