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Dear America: Your News Media Absolutely Hates You
The Federalist ^ | 12 Feb 2018 | Ben Domenech

Posted on 02/12/2018 12:50:19 PM PST by Rummyfan

It’d be nice to say that American media doesn’t hate this country. It’d be nice to claim that the American press, while maintaining objectivity and balancing against bias, is still inherently American – that they are patriots who love this country even as they report on its defects. Recall the quote from Daniel Patrick Moynihan while Ambassador to the United Nations: “Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don’t. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do. Have we done obscene things? Yes, we have. How did our people learn about them? They learned about them in the newspapers.” And that is important.

But we cannot say these things when the American media, time and again, illustrates its utter hatred for the nation and its people in those newspapers and on television. Having judged the American project kaput after the election of Donald Trump, they are now stooping to the level of defending the North Koreans – perhaps the most brutal and heinous regime in the world today – thanks to some side-eye from its minister of propaganda, the sister of Kim Jong Un. If the headlines are to be believed, “North Korea heading for diplomacy gold medal at Olympics” is the story American media want to tell about this moment.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: liberalfascism; media; mediawingofthednc; msm; news; newsmedia; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; propaganda

1 posted on 02/12/2018 12:50:19 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Sad, but true. They should all move to N. Korea and see how they like it there, since the US is not good enough for them.


2 posted on 02/12/2018 12:54:07 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Rummyfan

Well, they don’t get a dime out of me...


3 posted on 02/12/2018 12:57:14 PM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Rummyfan

Likewise.


4 posted on 02/12/2018 12:59:38 PM PST by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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To: Rummyfan

PROPAGANDA.

DIRECT TO YOUR TV SCREENS. UNFILTERED.


5 posted on 02/12/2018 1:00:06 PM PST by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY or the Highway)
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To: Rummyfan

We’re a 1st world country with a 3rd world media. I’d rather have North Korea’s media than ours since at least over there people on both sides of the medium know it’s all pro-commie propaganda, they just can’t speak freely about it. Our phony journalists have actually convinced themselves that their partisan BS is real news.


6 posted on 02/12/2018 1:01:04 PM PST by MountainWalker
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To: Rummyfan

This is the Corporate Media in place since the mergers under Bill Clinton occurred.


7 posted on 02/12/2018 1:02:32 PM PST by bkopto
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To: Rummyfan
The news media is populated with a bunch of boomers and generation X’ers who are driven by their egos and fantasy that they are among the most important people on the planet - determining the direction of history. Make no mistake. This is their major motivation, by far, and is why they hate Trump. Trump treats them as what they are, people who are supposed to investigate facts and report them without bias - and he calls them out because they've long ago abandoned this central part of their jobs. These are people who see themselves as great intellectuals, great progressives, part of history, moving with and among those who are going to change the world. Honestly.

They are in reality people with degrees in journalism, maybe English, or other liberal arts major, with the very occasional law school graduate. How and why they ever got to the point at which they think they are smarter and more informed than the rest of us, and that they are qualified to opine on just about everything, is a mystery. Clearly, they are not qualified. They're not even doing their designated jobs correctly, let alone being the arbiters of wisdom. The reality is that you could easily take a group of freshman and sophomores from most community colleges and replace them all.

I do have great respect for hard working journalists who seek truth, but they are now in the minority.

8 posted on 02/12/2018 1:05:42 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Rummyfan

Really? Tell me something I don’t know or better yet, tell them the feeling is ever so mutual.


9 posted on 02/12/2018 1:09:27 PM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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10 posted on 02/12/2018 1:09:55 PM PST by IWontSubmit (2)
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To: neverevergiveup

About four decades ago journalism schools made a shift from teaching the who-what-where-when-why of a story to teaching a Social Justice theory which states the journalist’s job is to go out and “change the world”.


11 posted on 02/12/2018 1:11:04 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Innovative

Sad, but true. They should all move to N. Korea and see how they like it there, since the US is not good enough for them.

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True, Innovative.

Hope they enjoy their grass salads and lovely candlelight evenings (if they can purchase candles, that is).

Don’t see many South Koreans trying to break into North Korea....


12 posted on 02/12/2018 1:16:05 PM PST by proud American in Canada
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To: Rummyfan
Dear America: Your News Media Absolutely Hates You So True
13 posted on 02/12/2018 1:40:34 PM PST by CptnObvious (uestion her now.)
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To: Rummyfan
"Dear America: Your News Media Absolutely Hates You"

From the behaviors of their English program instructors in universities, that's no surprise.


14 posted on 02/12/2018 1:45:45 PM PST by familyop (President Trump said that we're all important, so let's do something!)
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To: neverevergiveup
How and why they ever got to the point at which they think they are smarter and more informed than the rest of us, and that they are qualified to opine on just about everything, is a mystery.

I blame Woodward and Bernstein. Before Watergate the press considered themselves ink stained wretches, just working class stiffs. Afterward they became agents of change, seeing it as their duty to direct the course of the nation.
15 posted on 02/12/2018 2:19:29 PM PST by slumber1 (Islam delenda est)
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To: Rummyfan

It’ll all be over for the Nork Ice Hockey players when they run into USA, Canada, or the Russians. But for the home-ice bye, the Koreans would never have qualified for the tournament. See you boys along the boards!


16 posted on 02/12/2018 6:36:42 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: onyx

Not my screen. : ) Good to see you.


17 posted on 02/12/2018 10:03:58 PM PST by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: Rummyfan

We don’t have “news media.” Except for a few traffic or weather stories.

We have a national propaganda arm that glorifies international socialism and those who profit from it. Of course they hate Constitution and freedom loving Americans. They hate the USA, which traditionally has thwarted world dominating socialists. They work for our enemies.


18 posted on 02/12/2018 10:09:16 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Rummyfan

Hate ‘em back. It works for me!


19 posted on 02/13/2018 4:11:27 PM PST by TigersEye (Where is the Trump/Russia collusion memo? ... Mueller? Mueller? Anybody?)
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