art credit: no-gods-no-masters.com
Corruption in the media just keeps getting worse. The
anchors and pundits brazenly lie. They hardly ever retract. I had assumed the propaganda was ideologically-driven and power-driven, but I had not really considered how much
money could be made by manufacturing blatant propaganda for gullible -- or at least uncritical viewers/readers.
Stephen Ryan at American Thinker puts a few things together:
Right now, left-leaning mainstream
media is getting flogged, and they deserve it for their dishonest reporting on
the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory. Mass firings and a month of apologies by
Jeff Zucker and Rachel Maddow would not be sufficient to mend the harm these
organizations have done to America’s trust in news reporting.
But the folks who truly deserve to
be put in their place and totally humiliated are the viewers of these pretend
news shows. At what point do the Wellesley and Williams-educated elites
look in the mirror and accept the fact that they have been taken for fools?
They have enabled progressive media to manufacture rotten journalism. They
never turned the channel.
Most people got a glimpse of Rachel
Maddow’s ringmaster act when she ran the elephants around a circle for
forty-five minutes entertaining the masses with the promise that Trump’s tax
returns would shortly be shot out of a cannon. As the fuse burned and
Rachel Maddow whipped the crowd into a frenzy, insinuating that she had caught
the tax cheat, MSNBC producers were madly counting the gate.
Slate Magazine writes: “There was, of course, the mid-month
burst of global attention surrounding the program’s unveiling of President Trump’s 2005 tax return, a scoop that yielded a series-best audience of just over 4 million
viewers.”
Then suddenly… Boom! - “TRUMP
PAID HIS TAXES IN FULL!!!” Whoops. Cut to commercial.
For a nanosecond, media critics
seemed embarrassed. Slate
called it a “mini-backlash among critics who accused Maddow of
overhyping the discovery.”
But the ringmaster understood that
nobody listens to the critics. What mattered most was the act: the bearded lady
would be on the show the next day and the mob would show up.
The Trump tax return debacle, in
certain ways, was a game changer for progressive media.
The fallout from the Trump tax
return show was that network news producers tossed their journalistic ethics
out of the window. The ghost of Walter Cronkite could finally be ignored -- the
news legend’s white privilege delegitimized his legacy. News
organizations found themselves free to manipulate or willfully lie to their
audience every single day.
And nobody seems to care.
Certainly, Maddow’s audience doesn't care -- they show up every night.
Network news producers understand that now. In today’s world, it’s no longer
the New York Times’ laughable and pretentious axiom “All the news
that’s fit to print” that matters, it’s Randy Newman’s tune, “It’s money that
matters,” that news media organizations dance to. Just ask Rachel.
Will there be any reckoning? The rest of the
article is here.
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