What
the mainstream media is lacking is ETHICS, among many other
things. They issue forth lies about people they don't like and refuse
to report the truth about people they love, regardless of how bad they
are. Quote: "We’ve heard much ado about Trump-Russia “collusion” in the
print and broadcast media since the president’s inauguration. The
media’s interest in this non-story has not ceased. Yet when reports
emerged last year that Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of
dollars to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of
state, that story was mostly ignored by the major networks. As
co-chairs of the House Media Fairness Caucus, we sent letters to the
presidents of ABC, CBS, and NBC News concerning their lack of coverage
of this actual Russian scandal. Despite the severity of the allegations,
at the time of our letter, the three networks had only spent a combined
4 minutes and 38 seconds covering the story. In comparison, the
networks had spent 1,000-plus minutes on their Trump-Russia collusion
stories since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, representing 20
percent of all their coverage of the Trump presidency."
http://dailysignal.com/2017/11/17/real-russia-scandal-media-ignoring/
The
sentiments expressed in this piece are one hundred percent correct.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/12/06/the-mainstream-media-doesnt-deserve-our-respect-or-our-trust/
The
mainstream media has long been destroying its reputation with
politically motivated fake news items. But this item discusses a really
bad journalistic mistake highlights just how far down the path to total
destruction they have traveled. Three quotes: "It’s hard to quantify
exactly how many people were deceived – filled with false news and
propaganda – by the CNN story. But thanks to Democratic-loyal
journalists and operatives who decree every Trump/Russia claim to be
true without seeing any evidence, it’s certainly safe to say that many
hundreds of thousands of people, almost certainly millions, were exposed
to these false claims. Surely anyone who has any minimal concerns
about journalistic accuracy – which would presumably include all the
people who have spent the last year lamenting Fake News, propaganda,
Twitter bots and the like – would demand an accounting as to how a major
U.S. media outlet ended up filling so many people’s brains with totally
false news. That alone should prompt demands from CNN for an
explanation about what happened here. No Russian Facebook ad or Twitter
bot could possibly have anywhere near the impact as this CNN story had
when it comes to deceiving people with blatantly inaccurate
information." And, "U.S. media outlets are very good at demanding
respect. They love to imply, if not outright state, that being patriotic
and a good American means that one must reject efforts to discredit
them and their reporting because that’s how one defends press freedom.
But journalists also have the responsibility not just to demand respect
and credibility but to earn it. That means that there shouldn’t be such a
long list of abject humiliations, in which completely false stories are
published to plaudits, traffic and other rewards, only to fall apart
upon minimal scrutiny. It certainly means that all of these “errors”
shouldn’t be pointing in the same direction, pushing the same political
outcome or journalistic conclusion." And, "At minimum, these networks –
CNN, MSNBC and CBS – have to either identify who purposely fed them
this blatantly false information, or explain how it’s possible that
“multiple sources” all got the same information wrong in innocence and
good faith. Until they do that, their cries and protests the next time
they’re attacked as “Fake News” should fall on deaf ears, since the real
author of those attacks – the reason those attacks resonate – is
themselves and their own
conduct." https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/12/09/the-u-s-media-yesterday-suffered-its-most-humiliating-debacle-in-ages-now-refuses-all-transparency-over-what-happened/
The
New York Times has devolved into a political rag instead of what it
once was. John Stossel in this piece says he hates the Times. He has
good reason to. Read what he has to say. You may end up agreeing with
him, too.
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2017/12/06/i-hate-the-new-york-times-n2418518
This is a huge indictment of the unethical and irresponsibility of our leftist mainstream media. Quote: "A
long history of overwhelming media dishonesty may produce broader
consequences that many may find distressing. The public remarks of
Donald Trump often seem quite ignorant or even ridiculous, and surely no
presidential candidate in the last one hundred years has been subjected
to such strong and uniformly hostile media coverage. Yet the insular
members of the Fourth Estate have been stunned that their endless
attacks and denunciations have had so little impact upon public opinion,
with Trump having recently regained the national lead in several
presidential polls. Surely journalists must realize that decades of
deceit have stretched their credibility past the breaking point on a
whole range of sensitive issues, with huge numbers of voters simply
disregarding anything said about Trump in what they consider “the lying
press.” Once Americans conclude that
our supposedly objective media functions merely as a corrupt propaganda
machine, why should the statements of prominent establishment pundits
or reporters count for anything more than the sarcastic Tweets of some
angry, anonymous blogger? Those who have allowed the currency of
journalistic integrity to become totally debased have only themselves to
blame when they discover it is no longer accepted by the general
public."
http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-kkk-and-mass-racial-killings/
This
is an interesting assessment of the decline in mainstream news
casting.
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/the-collapse-of-major-media/
This
piece is 100% on target. Newspapers should stop acting like they are
political super PACs.
http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/59-media-issues/3850-newspapers-shouldnt-act-like-super-pacs
These
two blowhard show hosts are so biased to the left they cannot think or
see straight. Yet they think they are the smartest pair on TV...far,
far from it. This is why normal people who keep abreast of things
despise media hacks who shape news, not make it what they want it to
be. They are charter members of the fake news club. Quote: "This week
on Morning Joe, the show’s liberal panelists have been working
overtime not to cover one of the most significant stories that broke
this past weekend. Namely, multiple journalistic outlets have revealed
significant conflicts of interest at the FBI over the past two years
that could have directly impacted agents’ investigations into Donald
Trump, Hillary Clinton, and their respective associates. However, you
wouldn’t know this just from watching MSNBC’s top morning show. On both
Monday and Tuesday, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski and
their guest pundits repeatedly trashed President Trump for drawing
attention to this reporting about FBI corruption. None of the show’s
panelists bothered to bring up recent stories from The Washington Post, The New York Times, Reuters, Business Insider, Fox News,
or any other news organization that supported Trump’s claims. Instead,
they preferred to attack the President’s tweets as more evidence of the
threat that he purportedly poses to our “democratic institutions.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/chris-reeves/2017/12/05/morning-joe-smears-trump-highlighting-fbi-corruption-reports
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