Surely NBC remembers this, eh?
Posted on 11/06/2017 10:33:52 AM PST by ForYourChildren
In a staggering example of the press lacking any self-awareness, on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie fretted over “a recent poll that said nearly half of people think the media make up stories” and unbelievably turned to disgraced former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather to suggest ways in which the news media could “enhance its own credibility.”
Citing a Politico poll from October that found 46 percent of voters “believe the news media fabricate news stories about President Donald Trump and his administration,” Guthrie asked Rather: “The media itself is under fire. And what do you think the media needs to do better to enhance its own credibility? And what do people need to understand about the value of the press?”
The ex-network anchor, who was fired for using fraudulent documents to smear former President George W. Bush in a series of reports ahead of the 2004 election, was shameless as he replied to Guthrie’s softball: “Well, first, those of us who are in the media....we need to do a better job, we need to do our job. Our job is to bear witness, to be honest brokers of information. To be as accurate and fair as we possibly can.”
He then went on the attack against the country’s most vocal media critic:
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Yup. Liberal projection.
Dan Rather: “The document may be fake, but believe me the information is true” LOL Guy has some one create a fake document and gets busted, and then is the “Voice of reason” behind fake news?
Is this some devious plot by NBC to remind people that CBS is just as fake as they are? Or has John Semmens hacked into Savannah Guthrie’s teleprompter.
Ummmmm, cuz you do?
Ratherbiased ..., bwahahahahahayhahahaha !... Total Commie joke ...
Surely NBC remembers this, eh?
It is what they do.
Walter Duranty preceded Walter C.
You can’t make this stuff up...
Koi video. The media lie du jour.
We are surprised it is only 47% who think the media makes up lies to tell us.
Asks Dan Rather? Triple LOL
What’s the frequency Kenneth?
Asking Dan Rather why the media makes up stories is like asking Willie Sutton why bank robbers rob banks.
That’s just the trouble - you are so cynical about American society that your ability to be accurate and fair is negligible. In fact, the fact that you claim to be objective - not to be trying to be objective, a laudable ambition if true - simply proves that you actually are not even trying to be objective. You simply make the claim, and then print whatever fact or fiction you find congenial to your own interests.You know perfectly well that you are negative; “If it bleeds it leads” is Journalism 101. But it is so not because negativity is objectivity, but rather because bad news sells newspapers. To claim to be objective while knowingly being negative is to claim that negativity is objectivity. But “the conceit that negativity is objectivity” is a perfect definition of cynicism.
Thus cynicism is baked into the journalistic cake. But nobody can be cynical about everything; if “A” and “B” are opposites and you are cynical about “A,” you cannot but be naive (at best) toward “B.” Journalism is cynical about society; about government, journalism is at best naive. Which is a precise description of socialism. And whether you call socialism “liberalism” or “progressivism” or whatever expression you may concoct, journalism naturally defaults to pro-socialist propaganda.
And whatever rebuts socialist propaganda, be it never so novel, never so interesting, never so important - just doesn’t suit your idea of “news.”
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