The problem with all of this obviously is that all these news outlets are supposed to report the news, and none of them do anymore. They ‘report’ the opinions of their editors and ‘journalists’, and if these people don’t like whoever it is the American people elect as their president, it’s open season.The boy who cried "wolf" comes to mind. When the public begins to suspect that they are being gaslighted by the corporate media the purpose of having a free press is undermined.
American media has made it acceptable for foreign media to write fake articles about the US president, which means ridicule of the Office of the President is fine too, and thereby the process by which he was elected. Re-read Kurbjuweit’s statement, that is what he says.
This is a sort of new normal that may well be the main legacy of 2018. It’s where the surge of social media and the internet in general have led us. In the process, they’ve swallowed the truth whole, and we may never see it again.
The truth is not a winning proposition. Fabricating stories and narratives and using them to string readers and viewers along like a modern version of the Pied Piper is a much bigger winner than the truth, and they’re all waking up to this new reality.
Der Spiegel’s response to being exposed as liars is to pretend to be open about it, but only by blaming one individual, while sparing the editors who let him roam free for 7 years.
The Guardian, which ran a fabricated story about meetings between Paul Manafort and Julian Assange in London’s Ecuadorian embassy a few weeks ago and was also exposed, has chosen a different approach: they attempt to smother the truth in silence. Both the writers of the story and editor-in-chief Kathy Viner, responsible for publishing blatant lies and fabrications are still on the payroll, there’s been no retraction and no apologies.
But there’s a flipside to this kind of thing. If you try to get away with murdering the truth the way Der Spiegel and the Guardian have done in these two instances, who’s going to read you next time around if they want to know what really happens, and take your words as true? No-one in their sound mind. So it’s necessarily a short term strategy....
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Trump Derangement InternationalRaúl Ilargi Meijer
"American media has made it acceptable for foreign media to write fake articles about the US president"
ReplyDeleteNever mind domestic media and the NYT's anonymous editorial bashing Trump ...
My personal favorite: "anonymous intelligence officials citing secret documents".
“News outlets no longer report the news. They ‘report’ the opinions of their editors and ‘journalists’, and if these people don’t like whoever it is the American people elect as their president, it’s open season.”
ReplyDeleteThere would have existed some variant of Trump derangement syndrome even if Trump had never existed.
People had already been ignoring the “mainstream” news outlets for years. The last time I watched any news on the corporate outlets was 28 years ago during the Persian Gulf War.
In response, the corporate news outlets resorted to increasingly ridiculous nonsense in a desperate attempt to boost ratings and stop the bleeding. Meanwhile social media giants have helped out by purging whoever doesn’t serve the elitist establishment.
The corporate media outlets have always lied, but after 9-11 they became more absurd than ever. Today the news outlets are claiming that because of the partial and temporary federal shut-down caused by Democrat stubbornness, NASA has been de-funded, such that planet earth will be blind if a giant meteor streaks toward us. Therefore Trump (i.e. Democrats) has possibly doomed us all.
What garbage.
Everyone outside the corporate media bubble is “deplorable.” Everyone inside the bubble is outraged that the “deplorables” preferred Trump over the warmongering Wall-Street psychopath Hillary. The bubble-clowns are also furious that Trump is talking peace.
“Der Spiegel’s response to being exposed as liars is to pretend to be open about it, but only by blaming one individual, while sparing the editors who let him roam free for 7 years.”
Der Spiegel is notoriously pro-war, pro-neoliberal, and pro-establishment.
“The Guardian, which ran a fabricated story about meetings between Paul Manafort and Julian Assange in London’s Ecuadorian embassy a few weeks ago and was also exposed, has chosen a different approach: they attempt to smother the truth in silence.”
The Guardian is also exposing fabrications by its competitors in the vain hope that The Guardian will seem truthful by comparison.