Posted on 02/14/2013 8:31:27 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
Response: No the journalists are merely the junior officers carrying out the orders of lilltle known men who are way in the background.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize.” —Voltaire
Face the ugly truth: “Whitey” is the new “Nigger”, and “Conservative” is the new “Juden”.
Journolists - A HUGE part of the problem.
Thanks for this article, P.A. - will read carefully a bit later today.
Journalists need to be held accountable, one of these fine days.
Journalists know what is expected of them. They operate in a tight peer group that is largely approval driven. They talk among themselves and they learn what their friends approve of.
I thought about this the other day while my liberal sister was posting nasty crap about the Pope on facebook. She doesn’t have any personal opinion on the Pope or Catholicism but it did bring waves of praise from her liberal friends when she posted it.
whitey/conservative = Bible believers = the states enemy.
The only people powerful enough to thwart their plans
I agree they were top journalists with all the myopia of those individuals who pay attention to day by day activities.
Electronic media have made the tools of propaganda more accessible to a wider range of opinion makers. Penetrating divergent readerships is the real work of these mavens. The fact that there is a divergence is itself remarkable.
As non MSM organs become more influential a wider range of opinion will circulate. There is a problem, however.
Conservative media is dependent upon an informed readership. This precludes influence among low info masses. That challenge must be met with tools that popularize conservatism.
Putting horns on progressives is necessary work. They must, ultimately, be demonized.
"...a highly impressionable person without a firm grasp of public affairs and without very strong convictions...He is too eager to please..."
In 1933, Lippmann was praising Roosevelt, scratching his belly and manipulating his eagerness to please. This way, Franklin - this way!:
"By the greatest good fortune which has befallen this country in many a day, a kindly and intelligent man had the wit to realize that a great crisis is a great opportunity. He has taken advantage of it."
Good boy, good boy.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices.” - Adam Smith
. . . and “mainstream” journalists all work for news outlets which belong to the Associated Press. The AP newswire is nothing but a continuous, 24/7 virtual meeting of all the member news organizations. And not for “merriment and diversion,” either.
And it’s a lot deeper than peer pressure. The WH issues stuff and the MSM broadcast it practically verbatim; and the MSM sends articles to the WH for vetting before broadcasting.
The media is just an arm of the leftist revolutionaries. I would not be surprised if some were getting .gov salaries!
They need to swing just as the regular revolutionaries in gov need to swing...
Remember Ceaucescu!
(Waving to minders - ha ha, just joking - all metaphorical and stuff!)
Jouralists and publishers are not the real rulers. The real rulers are the ones who control the hiring and firing of journalists. Particularly the firing of those who step over the line, like John Derbyshire.
The real rulers are the ones who invite compliant journalists to the nice parties, where they can meet new sources and get investment advice. The ones who supply them with cute mistresses and good drugs. Look deeper.
The problem with this article id that guys like Lippmann and Bernays were abundantly self-conscious. Do you think any journalist really knows what he’s doing today? I don’t mean people like Dan Rather, who certainly must know he was putting his thumb on the scale. I mean are there any conscious mass manipulators who are shifting the news here and there, rather than a crowd of libs like dogs chasing a tennis ball, moved always in a predictable manner, but nevertheless moved by events instead of the other way around?
Also, media manipulation is one thing, and practical politics another. Not all politics takes place in the public arena. The New Deal was so radically successful because FDR was a political idiot savant, not just because the people had wool over their eyes.
You’re right. Lefties’ complaints against talk radio have always been wildly out of proportion to the importance of AM radio in today’s culture. That’s because they know the relatively miniscule audience tuning into Rush daily, as opposed to the tidal masses bolted to their chairs in front of the MSM, is that much less precious influence they control. That little audience listening to a media outlet that hadn’t entered into the average person’s life in decades might’ve been instrumental in the so-called “revolution” of ‘94, which itself broke decades of Dem Congressional monopoly.
I wonder why they don’t push harder for a new fairness doctrine. That’s a big missing piece.
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