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Monday, October 17. 2011

Journalism scandal

I think this is a bigger journalism scandal than the Journo-list scandal during the Obama campaign in which the press coordinated their pro-Obama talking points: Busted. Emails Show Liberal Media & Far Left Cranks Conspired With #OWS Protesters to Craft Message


The MSM is helping them shape their message, and then reporting it. That is not journalism, but it is how propaganda is created.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:50 | Comments (6) | Trackback (1)

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AVI gave us a free mini-post in his comment, here: Journalism at present involves a great deal of believing that you know other people's motives. We are told that OWS has some legitimate complaints. Not because very many of them are actually clearly ar
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Excuse me. Journalism isn't propaganda? Who knew?
#1 chuck on 2011-10-17 14:16 (Reply)
No surprise. They've been messing with our heads for years.

What's funny is that OWS isn't a left-wing group. Well, it has left-wing tendencies and supporters, but it's so disorganized they've got all kinds of cranks and nutjobs showing up.

Still, the basic premise has been subverted for the cause of the Left, and will continue its left ward shift despite the desire of most people to just be left alone....

"The young people at Zuccotti Park "really think they are headed for no future. No jobs. Ice caps are melting. Misery in the offing ... You want a new civilization," Gitlin said.

"But most of the people who support you ... they don't want a new civilization. They want to be middle class.""
http://beta.finance.yahoo.com/news/occupy-protests-last-without-leaders-123318287.html
#2 Bulldog on 2011-10-17 14:25 (Reply)
When the great Ernie Pyle was alive and on the frontlines, and Edward R. Murrow was reporting from the midst of the London blitz, the word 'journalist' was used to honor someone who was a dam good reporter. Today, all the little reporters fresh out of J-School have given themselves the honor of calling themselves journalists as soon as they get their shiny new diplomas. A great proportion of reporters nowadays aren't even reporters. They are fan magazine writers who have the arrogance to skew the news facts to influence the ignorant public to one point of view or another. Today's newspapers, especially the New York Times, doesn't trust its readers to form their own opinions on the events of the day. Which is why I don't read The New York Times anymore.

Or even line a birdcage bottom with it.

Marianne
#3 Marianne Matthews on 2011-10-17 15:31 (Reply)
Bernays would be proud. So would Walter Lippman.
#4 KF on 2011-10-17 17:37 (Reply)
Though I work in advertising, I don't even tell people I went to J-School anymore. I'm honestly embarrassed.
#5 lordsomber (Link) on 2011-10-17 17:48 (Reply)
Journalism at present involves a great deal of believing that you know other people's motives. We are told that OWS has some legitimate complaints. Not because very many of them are actually clearly articulating legitimate complaints, but because journalists can think of reasons that people might be upset that sell better. This is common in the type of anti-American rhetoric we get explained to us> "Well can you blame them? America has done blah, blah, blah..." Those are not, in fact, the reasons why foreigners hate us. They are the reasons liberals hate us. They project this crap onto others all the time, because they really are that narcissistic and tribal.

So helping out OWS is just a natural extension of that. They are "giving voice to the voiceless, to the inarticulate rage of the disenfranchised, who deeply resent the inequitable distribution of wealth that allows people with unapproved attitudes to...oops, I mean, 'that saddles future generations...' no wait, I'm looking for the right words here... 'that finds a way to make a fortune even in hard times...' damn, this is hard..."

Because they see it as Us vs. Them, zero-sum, for cultural hegemony and prestige. That is the subtext.
#6 Assistant VIllage Idiot (Link) on 2011-10-17 18:37 (Reply)

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