Posted on 10/05/2020 7:10:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As every sentient person knows by now, our mainstream media and Big Tech platforms are limitlessly corrupt. Almost nothing they say, report or interpret can be trusted. They have become mouthpieces for the political Left, resonating bullhorns for the Democratic Party, the “social justice” insurgency, the feminist movement, domestic terrorists like Antifa and BLM, and the concerted effort to vilify and destroy the sitting American president.
A dead giveaway of their malignant agenda is the customary reliance on the “expert,” the “insider,” a someone-in-the-know code-named as “a source” or, more explicitly, “an unnamed source.” The phenomenon is so ubiquitous that it scarcely needs even a jot of documentation. Just pick up The New York Times or The Washington Post et al., scan any number of Internet sites, or watch CNN, MSNBC and the rest of that morbid crew, and you will meet the unnamed source at every turn.
Once there was a good reason for anonymity: the identity of the source needed to be protected for reasons of his or her safety as well as to ensure the continued flow of information. Such is now rarely the case. The source is unnamed because it has no name, it does not exist except in the bureau of missing persons known as the editorial office. The source is a disembodied figment that can be found nowhere but in the journalistic toolkit. In effect, whenever the reader or viewer comes across a newspaper article or visual report citing “a source,” a red flag should immediately pop up alerting us that we are dealing with a malevolent ghost now haunting the media, aka the house of lies.
Indeed, nothing attributed to “a source” should be believed; in fact, if the source says X, the proper conclusion is Not-X.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
When, for whatever reason, the insider is outed or the unidentified source exposed, the next step is to “walk back” his revelations. But for the most part, the source remains in hiding, as commanding as obscure, enjoying the unassailable power of anonymity, the spectral familiar of the political Left.
In the media world, however, the “source” has acquired a kind of consecrated significance—it is always right, its authority is incontestable, and its omniscience cannot be questioned. It must be universally accepted though it remains nameless, unidentified, cryptic and impenetrable. It attests to a species of faux religiosity that masks a cynical manipulation of the facts and operates as an attempt to create something out of nothing, usurping the Divine prerogative. In the religious literature, this has always been the aim of the Father of Lies. It is now clear who and what the contemporary media serve.
Tune out the MSM until after the election. EVERYTHING they put out is leftist gas-lighting.
Unreliable Sources say PROPAGANDISTS are PEDOS. See how that works?
Haven’t watched in 8 years. Charie Kraut (FOX) was it for me.
The “source” used by my local Gannett newsrag spots Biden a 14-point lead this morning. Same crap as slam-dunk Hillary in 2016.
...Tune out the MSM until after the election.....
Why would anyone tune in the MSM after the election?
There are no non biased news reports in the media and there are no statistically valid polls. The “journalists” make no pretence of being non vested and the polls are flawed since most decent people refuse to take unsollicited calls and discuss their personal political beliefs with strangers. Hopefully the election will be honest and the true wishes of the American people will be reflected in the outcome.
Schadenfreude is delicious!
To watch them cry silly.
Also, “Studies show”.
True that.
I hold “The Experts” in the same level of disregard, distrust and disgust as I do “The Sources” ... especially “The Unnamed Source” who far more often than not have absolutely no credibility.
RE: Also, “Studies show”.
Also “Experts Say...”
Also “Most Scientists believe in Global Warming (Now Climate Change)”
etc. etc.
The leftist media is just the information warfare wing of the democrat party.
JoMa
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