Posted on 09/05/2023 8:10:05 AM PDT by FarCenter
The mainstream media have abandoned the pursuit of objectivity and truth.
Are we living in a new age of agitprop? It is not unusual for journalism, culture and the arts to reflect the political bias of societies and individual writers. But in the past few decades, the business of providing information and insight has sharply deteriorated. Particularly at the elite level, the media now embrace an increasingly uniform point of view on issues as diverse as gender, race, the pandemic and climate.
To be sure, there still exists a vibrant oppositional press that offers divergent views. Nevertheless, so many mainstream media outlets increasingly resemble something closer to the kind of agitprop perfected by Russian Marxists, Lenin and their heirs. What was once a liberally minded industry, notes Michael Shellenberger, has embraced censorship as the one cure for what it defines as ‘misinformation’.
The results for consumers have been disastrous. In the new media world, all news coverage is geared towards upholding pre-established narratives. Actual reporting has become exceedingly rare. A 2019 report from think-tank Rand revealed that journalism is steadily moving away from a fact-based model and toward one dominated by opinion. The result is what Rand described as ‘truth decay’. This reflects a disappointing turn within a media industry that once proudly opposed existing power structures.
The rise of agitprop in the media is largely a result of increasing geographic, ideological and class uniformity. There has been a drastic change in the composition of the journalistic profession. Working-class reporters, many with ties to local communities, have been replaced by a more cosmopolitan and uniformly ‘progressive’ breed with college degrees. At schools like Columbia, aspiring journalists focus less on the fundamentals of reporting and more on openly advancing a ‘social justice’ agenda.
Many of these younger reporters, notes Pew, do not embrace the old ideas about objectivity and balance. And most tilt overwhelmingly to the ‘progressive’ side of politics. A survey in 2014 found that barely seven per cent of US reporters identified as Republicans. And according to some analyses, in 2018, some 97 per cent of all political donations from journalists went to Democrats.
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That's because that is exactly what they are.
I was briefly observing the old Mike Wallace “Biography” series, and his subject was Woodrow Wilson, one of our most wicked presidents. Criticism was minimal. This is the guy who gave us the Federal Reserve, the income tax, and admission to World War One.
Wallace’s tone was very professional. The reading and tone were exemplary. The Murrow’s and Cronkite’s of old were full throated liberals, but their tone and presentation could fool you because they were so good. Just ask Joe McCarthy or Goldwater or Nixon or Reagan.
Today’s media is full of screeching leftist maniacs who all but slobber and turn red. Their copy is loaded with repeated weasel words and bromides. “Cookie Face” Nicole Wallace recently impressed my wife who barely pays any attention, by loading the phrase, “disgraced former president” into her piece several times.
The media is an organ of the state. When they chased Nixon, they pretended not to be.
A few things about this:
The media is Leftist activists and has been for my entire lifetime.
They are both. Many have major connections to the government and the establishment. The establishment has always been the left.
The Leftists of 2023 were the “Loyalists” of the Revolutionary war.
Historians have estimated that between 15% and 20% (300,000 to 400,000) of the 2,000,000 whites in the colonies in 1775 were Loyalists (per Wiki).
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In today’s polls, you NEVER see a lefty idea/concept get less than 20% support. This means that about 400,000 lefties were around in the Revolutionary War and many of them signed up to fight the Patriots (like they do today in the streets and in the press). In fact “Loyalists” fighting along side the British once outnumbered the whole entire Patriot Army.
So, communist journalist’s in 2023 have, historically, a solid base to come from.
Now days it looks like about 35 to 40% of voters are hard core marxist, Loyalist, Democrats. So, the bastards have doubled their numbers in 248 years.
They are experts in incrementalism and they've taken over most aspects of society with little opposition.
Good point!
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