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What If We Had a Functional Media?
Real Clear Politics ^ | 9/11/23 | Frank Miele

Posted on 09/12/2023 1:37:43 AM PDT by CFW

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If we had actual journalism and if the journalists reported the truth instead of being the PR wing of the Democrat party, things would be a lot different.
1 posted on 09/12/2023 1:37:43 AM PDT by CFW
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If our republic is ever restored properly, there will need to be some major adjustments and one of them will be to the media. There will need to be some kind of media accountability act or something that will require them to report properly.

also the 2nd amendment will need to have a changes
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms AND TO USE THOSE ARMS TO DEFEND YOUR LIFE AND PROPERTY, shall not be infringed


2 posted on 09/12/2023 1:44:16 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: CFW

Orwellian Ministry of Truth.

Totalitarianism. No a joke.


3 posted on 09/12/2023 1:44:46 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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The media are too left liberal to be fair and just report.

When Turner brought CNN to TV land, how could they do news 24 hrs a day. Today they have a ‘machine’ to indoctrinate. It doesn’t have to be news and it doesn’t have to be truth.


4 posted on 09/12/2023 2:05:12 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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The “legassy” media says what it gets paid to say. They are not independent. Their content is subject to manipulation from the outside. If you work for them and then ask questions you will be fired.


5 posted on 09/12/2023 2:21:13 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Seriously.)
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We do have a functioning media. The leftist media, in the capitialist market place, fills the demand to the useful idiots of exactly what the useful idiots demand. The idiots demand the lie so they can have their stupid thoughts validated and so they can ultimately live with themselves in the false world they make up in their heads.

What we do not have is a functioning populuce. It is chock full of useful idiots.


6 posted on 09/12/2023 2:26:14 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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News media died decades ago.
They nailed the coffin shut in 2003, though.
7 posted on 09/12/2023 2:26:23 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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yes, the people are stupid. no one denies that.
BUT there has to be some accountability. They must be forced to separate between reporting and opinion/agenda and they must be forced to very publicly retract and correct false stories/reports.

with the swamp we live in, fixing the media is only one small step. Theres a ton that needs fixing all around


8 posted on 09/12/2023 2:35:12 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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They use to look out for the people now they are bought and sold


9 posted on 09/12/2023 2:42:46 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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It doesn’t have to be news and it doesn’t have to be truth.

It ISN’T the news, and it ISN’T the truth. Screw those rats 🐀

10 posted on 09/12/2023 3:06:33 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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The lamestream media promotes and must have death and destruction. Following the truth only promotes sanity and tranquility.


11 posted on 09/12/2023 3:23:27 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: ifinnegan

Correct. And the programming is deep.


12 posted on 09/12/2023 3:31:54 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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Could you imagine the difference if, in the fall of 2020, the Washington Post had accepted a copy of the Hunter Biden hard drive and actually investigated the thousands of emails, photos, text messages, and other evidence that implicated not just Hunter but his father Joe Biden in sundry unethical and criminal enterprises?

There would have been no difference. Fake voters and fake votes aren’t affected by a candidate’s scandals, corruption, rampant criminality, dementia, stupidity, malevolence, hypocrisy, dishonesty, or anything else.

Biden was going to “win” the 2020 election, and Trump was going to “lose”. It was predetermined. It’s as simple as that. Anyone who pretends otherwise is either dishonest, stupid, or has their head in the sand (or someplace else).

13 posted on 09/12/2023 3:37:48 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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On the upside, they are legacy. Their audience is dwindling like a campfire in the night. As the baby-boomers die off, the next generations are finding other sources of info, particularly on the Internet.


14 posted on 09/12/2023 3:41:32 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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Let’s get over any idea that the media cares about fair reporting. There is only one way to get their attention, and that’s to stop paying them. Cancel your TV subscriptions.


15 posted on 09/12/2023 3:46:08 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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Until the final hours of Hitler’s regime, Joseph Goebbels never killed anyone.

Yet he felt he had to murder his family and commit suicide before being captured by the Allies. Why was that? He was just a journalist, no different than what you see in the American media today.

The day is coming, when the media cockroaches will be wishing they had a cyanide capsule to save them from the punishment headed their way.

Looking at you Banjo Boy and your adulterous wife, Nicole Wallace and Gromit, Joyless Reed, Blanch Behar, Gollum and the Forehead, etc. You filthy propagandist are going to wish you were never born. A correction is coming.


16 posted on 09/12/2023 3:50:55 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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This is a typical conservative rant against an unfair, left wing media. But let's be realistic. The mainstream media has been concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy owners for generations. The New York Times and Washington Post have been liberal within living memory. Walter Cronkite and his ilk were as left wing biased on the old three TV networks 60 years ago as their heirs on the anchor desks are now. In 1964, Barry Goldwater was swamped with an unprecedented line of vitriol that led to Johnson's landslide win. A decade earlier, Joseph McCarthy was dragged through the mud by the mass media for fighting Communists in the State Department and military.

The bottom line is that there had not been a "fair" press for most of our lifetimes. Whining about liberal unfairness is useless. Avoid their lies and promote alternate sources, of which FR is one. There is a lot of good information on bloggers and alternative media sites.

17 posted on 09/12/2023 3:51:08 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: ronnie raygun

Bookmark


18 posted on 09/12/2023 3:53:08 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Not Assault Weapons - - They are TDW's, Tyranny Defense Weapons!)
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If we had a real bulldog vs lapdog media both globalism and the Democrats would be pariahs.


19 posted on 09/12/2023 3:54:19 AM PDT by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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The media is owned and controlled by globalist demons.


20 posted on 09/12/2023 4:44:01 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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