Media long ago became an appendage of the Democratic National Committee. Which appendage is the only remaining question, but watching this (2 min) clip from MSNBC’s Morning Joe clearly places it where people are oftentimes accused of generating their wrongful thinking.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Actual ‘Journalism’ has not been taught or practiced in a long time. The media is absolutely horrible, though its end is not coming about quickly enough. Thankfully, though, media is in-fact dying.
Each year there are fewer newspapers and news websites out there, as the market speaks and people flee these left-wing propaganda machines and wither on the vine.
Sadly, if these outlets did what they are supposed to do—actually report the news honestly and without bias—their demise may very well not seem so imminent. But they don’t, so to hell with them, please.
The shame is journalism is needed and wildly important, as a concept of keeping the public informed—the emphasis is on the word ‘informed’ as in not being told what to think. We the People need to know what our government and elected officials are doing. We need to know what corporations are up to. We need to know what’s happening in our world so we can avoid disasters.
But disasters are power now—never wanting a good crisis to go to waste is a marketing strategy, not the shame-worthy act it once was and still should be.
As journalism exhales its last few breaths, rejoice. There’s still a chance they could recover, but no one in any position of power in the editorial process seems interested in saving the mess from collapsing in on itself.
To wit: The New York Times opinion editor was fired for running an opinion contrary to what the “news” department was reporting.
Let that sink in: someone with the job of seeking out and running a variety of opinions was fired for doing just that—from an elected Republican United States Senator, no less—because people working in the department of the paper that expressly is not supposed to have opinions disagreed with it.
Ownership at the Times should have fired every reporter who publicly expressed their outrage, instead they caved. They should have seen this was their last chance to reimpose journalistic standards—for the sake of the collateral damage. Odds are there are a handful of good reporters with integrity and high ethical standards who will be hurt.
Not surprisingly, The Times will be one of the last to fall.
Its brand is far too important to the left-wing industrial complex that whatever amount of money is needed will be thrown at it for as long as possible.
Until media draws its last breath, expect to see continuing “news” stories like the Morning Joe clip highlighted in the first paragraph above with a talking head flagrantly lying and a cast of characters nodding in unison with stupid expressions, perhaps anticipating lightening striking as a result of the lies.
The timing is not clear nor how many people must lose their jobs and how many careers must be ruined before one of these “news” outlets experiences an epiphany and reverts to the journalistic standards of old.
Perhaps the question should not be ‘when’, rather ‘if’ sound journalistic standards will ever again be the norm.
