Every now and then the nooze just gets to me and I want to scream and carry on.
They call us “haters” and practically burst the blood vessels in their eyes, doing it. I am fairly sure Our Lord Jesus Christ would not have said He hated them, although He might have given them a jolly good thrashing as He drove them out of the Temple.
Anyway, I don’t report this schiff for my health… We need to know what we’re up against.
Here’s a little something I missed when it came out three years ago: an Axios poll found that 72% of Americans believed the news media “report news they know to be fake, false, or purposely misleading” (https://thehill.com/homenews/media/394352-poll-72-percent-say-traditional-outlets-report-news-they-know-to-be-fake-false).
And the nooze has labored on it ever since.
In 1976 a Gallup poll found trust in the news media at 74%.
By 2016 that figure had slipped to 32%.
In the 2018 poll, even 53% of Democrats conceded that the nooze lies at least “sometimes.”
Great Scott, what would that figure be today? Does anyone who’s not a solid stone-head liberal have any trust in our nooze media–any at all?
Need it be said that it’s really very bad for the public not to have reliable information about what’s going on? But that’s precisely what we don’t have now.
It’s because our (LOL) “journalistic” establishment has thrown in all the way with Far Left Crazy, and hopes to be rich and powerful in a “transformed” America.
I was a newsman once. Today’s so-called journalism makes me ashamed to admit it.
Stalinism–it only went away for a little while.
I guess they don’t trust Canadian journalism to commit suicide, as American journalism is doing: so the global statists at the UN have banned three reporters from Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media from covering its Global Warming conference in Morocco next month ( http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/10/21/caught-on-tape-un-bans-skeptical-journalists-from-climate-summit-for-holding-views-not-particulary-helpful/ ).
According to the UN bigwig in charge of press credentials, these journalists were banned because they’re “not helpful.” And also for “pushing a particular point of view.” Gee, they must be the only journalists in the world who do that!
Do honest people ban reporters from covering their conference?
Now, if these reporters had been pushing Global Warming and global government, they would be welcomed with open arms. It’s only “a particular point of view” that the UN wants suppressed. “Advocacy journalism” is only bad if you’re advocating the wrong thing.
By the time the ruling class is done corrupting journalism–with the enthusiastic assistance of noozies who think Job One, or indeed their only job, is helping the Democrat Party–it’ll be like there’s no such thing as news: we’ll have no idea what’s going on. Someone will have to re-invent reporting; and then we’ll have to fight the battles for freedom of the press all over again. In the meantime we’ll have no reliable information: only “advocacy journalism” approved by our rulers.
I used to be a reporter. We used to try to get the story right, insofar as humanly possible. We thought it was our duty.
No more, no more, no more…