Posted on 02/15/2018 12:15:24 PM PST by Kaslin
FOIA used by J/W needs to get on that ASAP.
When newspapers lost readers they had to downsize.
When they downsized they became more dependent on democrats and their thugs in ‘intelligence’...because they had fewer reporters to find their own stories.
Editors who were NOT downsized - those who stayed - were the ones with the ‘best contacts’. The ‘best contacts’ were the ‘intelligence’ people because they had access to the best ‘information in the world’ - paid for by American taxpayers to protect all of us... Used by the corrupt for their own benefit.
The more dependent the MSM became on intelligence thugs, the worse the thugs treated them, the more they demanded - - causing fewer and fewer people to trust what they were reading in the press... Ten years ago they did research and discovered if they added MORE ‘self-serving’ leaks that the idiot editors would accept more of the other stories fed them. Seems when an ‘editor’ rejects more of the intentionally placed ‘self-serving’ stories, the more likely he is to accept the real crap they wanted him to print.
For example? Looks like they publish plenty of self serving articles.
Th psychology behind the study was that editors would feel good about rejecting self-serving pieces (this is a conflict with editors - who really do want to believe they're protecting their readers... it's a balance... “do we reject what is obviously a good story just because we know it comes from ... “X” knowing X has an agenda tec etc... ) Lots of legitimate 'soul searching - (but to no avail...)
Turns out if MORE self-serving stories are added to the packet (easy ones to reject) that the average editor will accept MORE of the other stories - which also are 'self serving' but not 'as' self-serving.
Agenda + Bribes = Journalists
OK thx. “Presstitutes.”
Most of ‘em are basically good people who have been played for fools by democrats for so long they can’t see the forest through the trees...
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