[Louis Foxwell]

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[Louis Foxwell]

Yes. We understand the drive by media have no interest in reporting actual real events. That is left to a burgeoning industry centered online offering in depth factual reporting of everything that happens anywhere in the world.

There are winnowing centers like FR offering a particular take on events.It is left to the reader to choose the appropriate venue.

Altogether not a bad system. Works for me.

[PA Engineer]

The news media has become just another outlet in the culture war of the left. Its business model can't be fixed because it isn't in business to make money, but to indoctrinate. It doesn't care about the financial bottom line, but about the political bottom line. Its future is boutique journalism funded by liberal billionaires looking to influence policy by subsidizing failed media outlets that would otherwise go on the block for a buck just like Newsweek

They destroy everything they touch. People are confused who try to follow or at least get an understanding of the world as we know it. I recently had a wonderful young lady who cuts my hair ask what is going on. I cannot help, but to come back to modern science fiction.

People understand the movie The Matrix. I explained that everthing we hear from the "occupation media" is within that matrix. There may be a pause. There may be a sense of confusion. Planting the seed is the important thing when explainig today's news from outside the occupation media narrative. Some may write you off. My experience is interesting. The majority come back with a sense of understanding and agreement. That understanding is a process where the individual is going through an awakening.

I never push it, however I am ready to explain what the real reality is. I never push it and I do not insult them. I do reinforce their opionion is just as valid as the images portrayed to them.

The process is slow, but I still have not lost faith in humanity.

[tomkat]

             

(and those colors aren't random)

[Excellence]

In the digital era, the Inner Party looks a lot like Pajama Boy or the new wave at MSNBC or the Obama campaign, it's young, skilled at social media and it never grew up.

I'm trying to think of a political analogy to a Toys R Us kid.

[montag813]

Best conservative writer, by far

[nhwingut]

Excellent analysis. Very well written.

[Albion Wilde]

"The insiders get endless analyses that read like a case of college sophomore arrested development ..."

Ouch! LOL!

[Albion Wilde]

"Middlebrow content that is meaningful to the average person is usually the first casualty of postmodern leftist institutional domination. It happened in every area of culture and it just took a little longer for the same phenomenon to kill the news as we knew it and replace it with a wide gap between lowbrow indoctrination and highbrow guides on how to indoctrinate.

This split is fundamental to understanding what is going on not only with the news media, but with the country. The national audience is being divided between those who are to be fooled and those who do the fooling. "

[Luke21]

So why nothing on the conspiratorial Journolist, which Klein ran?

[GOPJ]

The news media has become just another outlet in the culture war of the left. Its business model can't be fixed because it isn't in business to make money, but to indoctrinate. It doesn't care about the financial bottom line, but about the political bottom line.

Folks who top the media food chain compete for prizes - they're long past where mere 'money' matters. And the folks who give out the prizes? The most liberal of the liberal... Not that they've created a perverse incentive or anything.../s

[oldbrowser]

In his announcement, Ezra Klein welcomed resumes from anyone who wanted to join him in "fixing the news" and promised to fight the phenomenon whereby the news tells people what happened instead of "giving them the crucial contextual information necessary to understand what’s happened."

What is the difference between what Klein is doing and campaigning ? Many organizations do "issue ads" which are thinly disguised attacks on politicians or political parties. Shouldn't Klein be required to get licenses and open their books as per the campaign finance act?

Where do you draw the line between freedom of the press and strictly regulated campaigning? There are also be tax ramifications to consider and regulate.