Posted on 10/21/2024 5:01:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The trust and prestige that took prior generations of journalists decades to earn have been thrown away in just a few years by incompetents and partisans.
CBS’s iconic 60 Minutes has had plenty of scandals and embarrassments in its long 57-year history, most notably the fake-but-accurate Dan Rather mess. Yet never has it found itself in greater disrepute than in 2024.
Donald Trump, for good reason, recently declined to join 60 Minutes for its traditional election-year in-depth interviews of the two presidential candidates. Why?
Last time he consented in 2020, anchor and interviewer Leslie Stahl attacked Trump’s accurate assertion that the Hunter Biden laptop (then in the possession of the FBI) was authentic—and authentically damning to Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy.
Stahl falsely claimed the laptop “can’t be verified.” She further incorrectly asserted, “So this story about Hunter and his laptop, some repair shop found it; the source is Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani.” The New York Post, in fact, reported the story. The FBI did not deny it.
Yet old Twitter and Facebook, under collaborating FBI tutelage and pressure, suppressed dissemination of the truth. Joe Biden’s then-advisor and now Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in conjunction with former interim CIA Director Michael Morrel, helped round up “51 former intelligence authorities” (among them Leon Panetta and both John Brennan and James Clapper, who had admitted previously of lying under oath to Congress) to claim falsely that the laptop had all the hallmarks of a Russian information gambit to warp the election.
Joe Biden used the “expert” consensus to further lie in the last Biden-Trump debate that the laptop was cooked up by the Russians. And neither CBS, the “intelligence authorities,” nor any of the Bidens have ever since apologized.
More recently, CBS got caught selectively editing the 60 Minutes interview
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The media has been corrupt for a very long time. Recall that Walter Duranty of the New York Times covered up for atrocities committed by the communists in the Bolshevik revolution in the Soviet Union. And even Walter Cronkite and his seeming admiration of communists.
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This is how to treat the corporate media. Just cut them out. Dole out seats in the White House press corps to independent journalists. Refuse to hold debates with any of the TV networks moderating them. Refuse to give them Townhalls - but do go on podcasts and grant interviews to independent Journalists who actually have some integrity. The corporate media is just the lying propaganda arm of the Democrat Party and nobody except Boomers watches them anymore. Just ignore them. They’re dying already.
Thomas Jefferson.
Some things never change
There are many anti-truth, evil propagandists in this republic. They are very clever and deceptive.
The Fourth Estate has become a fifth column.
A number of these broadcast networks will cease to exist in the coming years. I am specifically looking at you ABC (David Manure). The gloves are coming off. They are going to be charged with severe Federal election interference penalties after Trump takes office in January 21. The fine is going to be far more than the $750 million that Fox News paid to Dominion. David Muir is going to be fired and sent to prison.
The entire media industrial complex is going down. /spit
So close but VDH suffers from a myopic view of history, yes I realize he is a historian. The problem is he still thinks “experts and high education,” outside of the technical fields, actually had any value over the last 60 years.
Truth is the MSM has been totally corrupt from nearly its very beginnings, once you accept that truth none of the past 60 years is a surprise.
Want proof just look at how the Tet offensive was reported.
Exactly, VDH is great but seems to struggle with that truth, he desperately wants there to be some kind of validity within the “educated elite.”
Their broadcast licenses should be terminated, and I really hope Trump carries out his threat to do it!
Journalists have always been liars and partisan hacks. Never before have people had the ability share examples of those egregious lies with millions of others, so that the lies are obvious and undeniable.
“The trust and prestige that took prior generations of journalists decades to earn have been thrown away in just a few years by incompetents and partisans.”
Journalists have always been liars and partisan hacks. Never before have people had the ability share examples of those egregious lies with millions of others, so that the lies are obvious and undeniable.
QFT
And don’t forget, the newspapers lying that the Nazis weren’t killing Jewish people. In actuality, most of Europe and the United States acted entirely dishonorably when it came to the Jewish people, Denmark excepted. Denmark saved all of its Jewish population and then blew up its own naval fleet so the evil Nazis couldn’t make use of the fleet.
An important article, this little gem later in the article:
The Times just published an op-ed, “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza.” What followed were testimonials from medical officials and doctors in Gaza with truly harrowing stories of Israel’s collateral damage and the shooting of civilians, accompanied by X-ray photos of small children with IDF bullets allegedly lodged in their bodies and heads.
But even if one was not aware of the fables promulgated by Hamas and the history of propagandistic attacks on Israel, and even if there was no corroboration of how the victims died and under what conditions, a novice might have sensed that something was not quite right with the evidentiary X-rays.
Experts pointed out that the embedded bullets in the scans appeared pristine, without any fragmentation after entering skulls or midriff sections. There were no apparent entry and exit wounds on the images—suggesting either that it was unlikely the bullets came from IDF-issued high-velocity weapons or that the X-rays might simply have been rephotographed with IDF bullets placed beneath them. In any case, the New York Times did not cite any expert outside reviewer to authenticate the scans.
Hamas, and their supporters like the NYT, are simply ghoulish. Important read.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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Exactly!
Truth is the MSM has been totally corrupt from nearly its very beginnings, once you accept that truth none of the past 60 years is a surprise.
Want proof just look at how the Tet offensive was reported.
One incident is not proof of being "totally corrupt". There has been a great deal of corruption and an increasing amount of deceit in the mass media over the last 60 years.
I believe it the big change came when the FDR administration signed the Federal Communications Commission into existence in 1934.
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt worked hard to make sure the FCC kept "Progressives" in the radio networks. WWII allowed the Progressive government to install nearly total censorship. By the end of the war, Progressives were firmly entrenched in the broadcast networks. The broadcast networks became the television networks. The television networks were all progressively ideological.
I trust used car salespeople more than the media.
Eggzackly. Thanks to the internet, media corporations are anachronyms. This is the age of independent journalists.
Don’t go to lectures.
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