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“We Owned the News…We Were the Gatekeepers” – WSJ Editor-in-Chief Laments Mainstream Media Power Loss
Reclaim the Net ^ | January 22, 2024 | Cindy Harper

Posted on 01/22/2024 6:46:45 PM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 01/22/2024 6:46:45 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

As far as I can tell they tend to pull it out of their.... fourth point of contact.


2 posted on 01/22/2024 6:49:00 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: Red Badger

They don’t “collect the news”.

They manufacture propaganda.

Propaganda is more than just lying. It is choosing which stories to cover and which to ignore. It is using adjectives and adverbs which reflect the writer and editor bias and have nothing to do with the facts. It is using Agitation and Propaganda words and phrases which hide the truth instead of revealing it. It is playing favorites with public figures—praising those they choose and praise and slandering those they choose to hate.


3 posted on 01/22/2024 6:53:21 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well...

That's pretty telling. What she is lamenting is that they no longer "own" the facts - in truth, they never did. What they owned was trust, which they routinely betrayed.

4 posted on 01/22/2024 6:57:06 PM PST by Billthedrill
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The press has long ago abandoned any pretense of doing the basic requirements for an actual press.
“Who, what, when, where, why, and if known how” fell by the wayside to be replaced by soundbites and clever editing.
And as far as the press being the hound of the people against all politicians, they are lapdogs for politicians.


5 posted on 01/22/2024 6:58:59 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Red Badger

Gaslighting.


6 posted on 01/22/2024 7:00:52 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Red Badger

“”We owned the news. We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well,” Tucker said.”

What a goof.

The progs owned propaganda, nothing more.

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7 posted on 01/22/2024 7:02:37 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Red Badger

They created news, not reported it.


8 posted on 01/22/2024 7:21:10 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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The LugenPresse is angry that they no longer have a monopoly on “misinformation”.


9 posted on 01/22/2024 7:37:19 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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Emma Tucker, the Wall Street Journal’s Editor in Chief. . .

There's your problem. The chickification of the news.

10 posted on 01/22/2024 7:38:21 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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Tell this asshat to read news from 1863.

That is news.

This asshats slanted bias is rubbish.


11 posted on 01/22/2024 7:40:46 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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🤣


12 posted on 01/22/2024 7:55:44 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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Which is why you are being rejected.


13 posted on 01/22/2024 8:04:06 PM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: cgbg

Emma Tucker is clueless.

Papers HAD credibility BECAUSE they worked at being credible. That ended in the early 60’s....


14 posted on 01/22/2024 8:07:22 PM PST by GOPJ (“POSIWID” systems engineer's acronym that stands for “the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.”)
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Because you lied 99% and worse determined what we knew about

A pox on your sorry ass lady

If we could just bag google inc now


15 posted on 01/22/2024 8:11:04 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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“Rebuilding Trust”

________

This is the only positive from this farce!
Even they understand that nobody trusts them!


16 posted on 01/22/2024 8:14:56 PM PST by AZJeep
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To: eyedigress
I dunno…some of this comes across as propaganda.

The Press lying is the second oldest profession.

17 posted on 01/22/2024 8:32:15 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Billthedrill
"What they owned was trust, which they routinely betrayed."

Well said.

18 posted on 01/22/2024 8:47:49 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: cgbg

Excellent definitions. Salute.


19 posted on 01/22/2024 9:58:20 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Red Badger

The lost trust that 5hey never really deserved in the first place, but when they even rigged the cartoons in the papers to try and brainwash kids they lost me. It just got more and more obvious they were deliberately trying to manipulate opinion the older I got.
I can remember a time when there were two or more opposing papers in every town and when the entire speech of a president was printed, and the same for other speeches, without any commentary pro or con, and so, no bias.
Now they won’t even print one paragraph without omitting key words to twist the meaning of any announcement. Often they cannot even print an entire sentence... they always omit.


20 posted on 01/22/2024 11:32:55 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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