Posted on 06/21/2017 6:37:16 AM PDT by simpson96
Tuesday on Sean Hannity’s nationally syndicated radio show, author and University of the Arts professor of humanities and media studies Camille Paglia railed against the current state of journalism in America.
Paglia called what she said the Democratic Party had done to journalism “absolutely grotesque” and warned it would take decades to recover.
“It’s obscene,” she said. “It’s outrageous, OK? It shows that the Democrats are nothing now but words and fantasy and hallucination and Hollywood. There’s no journalism left. What’s happened to The New York Times? What’s happened to the major networks? It’s an outrage.”
“I’m a professor of media studies, in addition to a professor of humanities, OK?” she continued. “And I think it’s absolutely grotesque the way my party has destroyed journalism. Right now, it is going to take decades to recover from this atrocity that’s going on where the news media have turned themselves over to the most childish fraternity, kind of buffoonish behavior.”
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I started to listen to that interview and turned it off when I heard her name. She bears some responsibility.
It won’t “recover.”
It will be replaced.
She is absolutely right. Journalists should be laughed at — although this is really no laughing matter. Journalism has become a destructive force, using rampant dishonesty to propagandize for an anti-American political party.
Yes...but I give her credit for saying what needs to be said.
Camille is the only (reasonably) sane Lefty on the planet. Always fun.
And they are destroying the DEM party too...
Well, “journalism” has become both grotesque and obscene, but it could recover over night; all it would have to do is opt for truth rather than propaganda. Presto! Recovery!
With position of authority to speak from, I dont think I need to read any more.
That's it in a nutshell.................
There’s nothing wrong with journalism. Just as the invention of the printing press put information into the hands of anyone who can read, the invention of the internet, coupled with effective search engines, put useful information into the hands of anyone with a computer, a connection, and the brains to use it.
i.e. journalism is in finally in the hands of the people, where it belongs.
If the global warming hoax had been started today, it would have been stillborn.
The mdia has not changed. The NYT has been a propaganda tool since Walter Duranty. What has changed is exposure by the internet. That is why they are working to shut it down.
I agree - print and television will not ever recover... not in the sense of getting back to what it was [omnipresent and powerful.]
They probably don’t even know how to be unbiased in reporting. So, they don’t know how to present facts to the public in a way that avoids distrust.
My hope is that any remaining media refrains from making the same mistake - either as a revenge motive or out of ignorance.
Successful media will tell the truth in an unbiased manner. JMHO
It will never recover. Hannity said it had died. I agree with him.
There is actually very little journalism. It’s really just dem activists pushing their agenda and calling themselves the media. It’s fraud.
Classical liberals didn’t leave the democrat party, the democrat party shat all over classical liberals.
“Camille is the only (reasonably) sane Lefty on the planet. Always fun.”
You are correct. I don’t often agree with her political philosophy, but she’s smat, writes and speaks well. I read her stufff And if she were straight, I’d bang her!
It won’t “recover.”
It will be replaced.
It took decades to get where we are. It will take decades to finish the process of replacement, and by that time, a different replacement may be in process.
This is a spectacular failure, similar to the fall of the Soviet Union, and for the same reason. There were very smart people in charge, but their assumptions about reality were false. It is hard to make good decisions based on bad assumptions. Eventually you run up against reality.
That is what is happening with the media, and the false assumptions come from the same source: Leftist philosophy.
She can see the lefty train is heading off the cliff and doesn’t want to be on it.
Gone past fraud. Now just a fad, like “spiritualism” 100 years ago.
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