Amid a pandemic, the woke-ist media are experiencing a psychotic break

Washington Examiner ^ | 3 July 2020 | Becket Adams

[Rummyfan]

If the press suffered a nervous breakdown after the 2016 election ⁠— and they did ⁠— they are experiencing a full-on psychotic break amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Floyd protests.

It is as if the lockdowns and nationwide demonstrations caused media executives to snap, leaving them in a wide-eyed, obsessive frenzy to cleanse society of all problematics, screaming all the while, “Out, damned spot!”

CNN, for example, engaged in explicit political activism this week when it sought to shame companies that have yet to pull ads from Facebook over CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s persistent refusal to censor problematic speech.

“These are the big brands that haven't pulled ads from Facebook yet,” reads the headline. The report then goes on to name and shame the businesses that have had the temerity to continue to advertise on one of the biggest social media platforms in the world.

This is not news reporting. This is activism. It is a poorly disguised effort by a major newsroom to pressure companies into boycotting a social media platform that is too committed to political neutrality and too opposed to political censorship for the media's taste. In any other time and place, the press would have mocked and condemned the CNN article. But these are unusual times. Many journalists today agree with CNN's shaming tactics and the reasons behind them, and so the Facebook report came and went this week with barely a whimper of objection from our brave Fourth Estate.

[Rummyfan]

Nevertheless, their biggest problems are (1) historical ignorance and (2) a rigidly enforced (at the cost of one's job) orthodoxy and (3) adherence to the narrative , the narrative being that anything The Orange Man does is bad, evil, and financially and egocentrically motivated.

[Bookshelf]

Maybe so, but the so-called conservative media offers no help. I urge anyone reading this to go to Breitbart. You will note that the majority of reports could have easily have been written by Newsweek, or the Huffington Post.

[RummyChick]

Maybe grandparents in the 60s felt the way I am feeling right now..but this whole thing is abysmal.

[Gene Eric]

>> CNN's shaming tactics

Corporate Marxism

CNN is ATT

[5th MEB]

He says 4th Estate, didn’t he mean 5th Column?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I remember my dad saying some things about Walter Cronkite that I can’t repeat here.