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American journalism is collapsing before our eyes
NY Post ^ | August 21, 2016 | Michael Goodwin

Posted on 08/21/2016 3:28:51 PM PDT by QT3.14

Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.

The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand-in-hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; clinton; duplicate; journalism; media; mediabias; msm; partisanmedia; trump
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1 posted on 08/21/2016 3:28:51 PM PDT by QT3.14
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Journalism is collapSING?? Where has this guy been for the past umpteen years? It collapsed completely a life time ago. We no longer have journalists, we have propagandists no different from North Korea. The only difference is we have access to other news sources which will probably change if Hitlery is elected.


2 posted on 08/21/2016 3:33:08 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (By His wounds we are healed.)
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To: QT3.14

The Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column!


3 posted on 08/21/2016 3:34:50 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Obozo's MALadministration has been a series of Rieschstag fires. And we KNOW how THAT turned out!)
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To: QT3.14

American journalism died sometime before 2008.


4 posted on 08/21/2016 3:36:56 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: QT3.14
Goodwin is spot in in his column.

And like him, I wondered how and why Bratton excitedly emerged out of this meeting as though he'd just met Santa Claus IN PERSON. Now we know:

Clinton and Bratton’s Political Play

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton emerged from a meeting with Hillary Clinton gushing about her “ideas” and “experience,” as dutifully noted by numerous news organizations. But most failed to note that Bratton is leaving the NYPD for a job with Teneo, a corporate cousin of Clinton Inc.

It’s probably also just a coincidence that Bratton is cozy with the candidate that his current boss, the mayor, has endorsed.

Imagine the howling if a police com­missioner showered praise on someone the mayor opposed.

5 posted on 08/21/2016 3:37:26 PM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

>>We no longer have journalists, we have propagandists<<

You’ve stolen my thunder. Agree. Propaganda and misinformation. Very scary to watch this.


6 posted on 08/21/2016 3:39:04 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: QT3.14

There is a massive amount of political coordination between the media. There is an enormous amount of “reporting” which goes on, which is nothing more than a way to set the national agenda, and a huge amount of that, reporting is done by hardcore leftists.

Bigtime. Especially since the networks, had control over the airwaves, which have them control over everything. Also entertainment had a similar agenda-setting capacity.

America’s media, and America’s entertainment, are both controlled by leftists.

There is a small group in charge of a very huge amount of what is covered in America. AND THEY ARE PARTISAN.

They use their positions of (very much) power to advance a political agenda.

Every network. With one exception Fox, but they are globalist, and they also have an agenda.

That is what we have in America. A small group coordinating their political agendas. All of whom, are against Trump now. All of them.

The agenda coordination has been happening for a long, long time. Media and big entertainment.

But what has changed, is now we have an effective mouthpiece.

Trump is effective. And EVERYONE is coordinating to try to bring him down.

Everyone.

I sure hope, Trump wins, and turns this nation’s media conglomerates on their leftist heads.

Mind you, maintaining media independence. :D

But we have not had a “free” media for several decades.

Not even close.


7 posted on 08/21/2016 3:42:17 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent...not true for those of us who watched the press including the likes of Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Sam McDonald assassinate Richard Nixon after the Watergate "scandal".....
8 posted on 08/21/2016 3:43:02 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: QT3.14
American “journalism” was assassinated ages ago by none other than the man that the left holds up as the gold standard of "journalists", Walter Cronkite.
9 posted on 08/21/2016 3:43:51 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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My GF sent me this: I have no use for what passes as journalism these days, particularly on tv. Accordingly they spend too much time in deep admiration for politicians who show particular skill in lying, so much so that they have now institutionalized the destruction of public ethics by elevating deceit to a statecraft called ‘spin’. It is no longer the lie that matters but the qualitative fashion in which it is told. Sometimes it appears they’ve thrown their backs out giving news a twist.


10 posted on 08/21/2016 3:44:04 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3461511/posts


11 posted on 08/21/2016 3:44:08 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
No kidding. He must have been kidnapped by cavemen to have missed the last two decades.

Fake but accurate, and they didn't even fire him?

12 posted on 08/21/2016 3:46:17 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,)
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To: QT3.14

Hope, to The LORD, so.


13 posted on 08/21/2016 3:52:01 PM PDT by Bellflower (Dems = Mat 6:23 ....If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!)
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It all started when Dan Rather said “are you Mr. President?”


14 posted on 08/21/2016 3:53:55 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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When the US won the cold war circa 1991, we pillaged a few things from Russia that they no longer wanted ... things like socialist leaders, big government, empire, and of course Pravda.

We have been enjoying Pravda ever since.

15 posted on 08/21/2016 3:57:13 PM PDT by mvonfr
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Pravda (Russian: "Truth") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, formerly the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million. The newspaper began publication on 5 May 1912 in the Russian Empire and emerged as a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union after the October Revolution. The newspaper was an organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1912 and 1991.

Pravda has moved to America.

16 posted on 08/21/2016 3:59:04 PM PDT by tflabo (#.)
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We don’t remember history. The media slimed Herbert Hoover to elect FDR. They slimed Nixon to elect JFK. This has been going on for decades.


17 posted on 08/21/2016 4:02:08 PM PDT by littleharbour
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You’re correct.

But in my view they were simply biased liberals back then.

Starting in 2008 they became integral regime operatives.

They spent more time investigating the status of Joe the Plumber’s trade license than they did Baraq’s fake life story.


18 posted on 08/21/2016 4:04:33 PM PDT by nascarnation
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Reddit user explains when and why the media changed from journalism to activism.
19 posted on 08/21/2016 4:05:33 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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To: QT3.14

Awesome


20 posted on 08/21/2016 4:10:00 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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