The Miniaturization of Media Dinosaurs

American Thinker.com ^ | October 25, 2020 | Clarice Feldman

[Kaslin]

In much the same way that dinosaurs miniaturized to today’s birds, the ancient Democrat solons and media have devolved from positions of respect and power to starlings, annoyingly chirping and scattering guano from their perches.

The easy access to the internet diminished the power of the networks to control the narrative. Indeed, their monopoly is dead, and their audience must largely consist of people too feeble to manage the remote controls and turn them off or too technologically illiterate to view how crooked TV reporting has become.

The president understands this and has utilized every means to get his message through their once blinding scrim. This week, he pulled down the curtain on “60 minutes.”

“60 Minutes” Has a History of Running False, Unverified Reports

This CBS format of “investigation “ by buffed-up “reporters” has a long history of peddling fake news.

It falsely reported a problem with the Audi 5000’s acceleration, which was not a mechanical problem, but the result of operator failure.

It falsely touted that Alar on apples presented a high health risk.(Something that the Natural Resources Defense Council had promoted that fattened its coffers).

Based on a forged document, it falsely accused the U.S. Customs Service of facilitating drug trafficking along our southern border and settled with the defamed officer and retracted the story.

In more recent history, Dan Rather used it as a vehicle for promoting fake documents about President George W. Bush’s history with the National Guard.

I wrote at the time the results of the internal investigation that cost Rather his job:

[Kaslin]

High Five for President Trump to have walked out on 60 Minutes.

[ronnie raygun]

Going down with Bye_done

[ClearCase_guy]

This country is filled with investigative reporters who have absolutely no curiosity or urge to investigate either Biden or, really, Trump. They do not investigate to see what the FBI has been up to (or not up to). The investigative reporters simply repeat what their Globalist masters tell them to say. Which is OrangeManBad.

[gov_bean_ counter]

And that’s the way it is...

[Kaslin]

See BS brought it on themselves.

[Flick Lives]

The president understands this and has utilized every means to get his message through their once blinding scrim. This week, he pulled down the curtain on “60 minutes.”

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This follows the ancient Three Kingdoms Chinese strategy of “borrowing the enemies arrows”; using your enemy’s weapons against them.

[marktwain]

This is very well done.

Clarice has done excellent work here.

[KarlInOhio]

I have no idea why Republicans have not been making their own recordings of all interviews and press conferences for decades. They know that the MSM selectively edits video and quotes and have been doing it forever. But they seem surprised and helpless every time it happens.

Good job, President Trump, for fighting back. It should be interesting to compare the unedited original with the broadcast result and if 60 Minutes has to tone down their usual tricks.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

I’d like to see the original, unedited version of Sarah Palin’s interview with that witch Katie Couric.

I am sure they edited that thing to make Sarah look as bad as possible.

[Hardastarboard]

Dan Rather should be in prison for the rest of his life for the lie about George Bush’s military service. It was a blatant attempt to manipulate an election.

[upchuck]

Clarice lets loose on the LSM and scores many dead-on hits.

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[canuck_conservative]

REAL journalists are objective ... and take pride in their being objective

obviously, there’s not many real journalists around today

[PapaBear3625]

This country is filled with investigative reporters who have absolutely no curiosity or urge to investigate either Biden or, really, Trump. They do not investigate to see what the FBI has been up to (or not up to). The investigative reporters simply repeat what their Globalist masters tell them to say. Which is OrangeManBad.

One of my kids worked after school at one of the local papers. You would be amazed at how much of "news" consists of copy/paste from press releases issued by various organizations.

[PapaBear3625]

I have no idea why Republicans have not been making their own recordings of all interviews and press conferences for decades. They know that the MSM selectively edits video and quotes and have been doing it forever. But they seem surprised and helpless every time it happens.

It's only been fairly recently that hosting video on the White House web site has become viable.

[KarlInOhio]

Even without general hosting, recording everything would keep the press from doing things like mismatching questions and answers, chopping off full explanations before the end or even showing the interviewee sitting uncomfortably after a tough question when the "non-answer" was recorded before the interview started.

The media lies. We know it and it is easy to prove, but until now we've never taken the simple and obvious methods to prove it.