Posted on 08/21/2014 6:21:30 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
didn't begin when a police officer shot Michael Brown.
It began when a 300 lb thug...
robbed the Ferguson Market and abused a clerk.
led to a terrified statement from the store manager...
that he had not called the police and had nothing to do with the release of the video.
“They kill us if they think we are responsible," he said.
Fat ugly thugs looting a store... human filth.
One of the things we need to do is establish who actually controls what institutions that are doing the dirty work. There are many “useful idiots” out there who do not really know what is going on.
I firmly believe that the number who actually want to see the U.S. fail, and dissolve into some third world sump are relatively few; finding them is worth while.
Unfortunately, much of what we are seeing is the result of what the left calls “false consciousness” which is to say, a belief in false assumptions about reality. Most of this “false reality” has been taught to many by the education system and the media for decades.
I agree. When you look at “the owners” (stockholders) in CBS or NBC or ABC you will be amazed to find that a lot of them are common, ever day companies we are all familiar with. Then, you think, why are these folks not raising hell about these “hate the US” alphabet networks??
Are they REALLY supportive of these extreme liberals and their policies that are so destructive of this country? Are they really that stupid (useful idiots)? Or, Do they just not have a clue and, as Corporal Klink famously said “I know nothing!”
It's why the MSM and New York Times are doing badly. The desire of a Publisher is to connect with the public in a real way - so the public will trust their product enough to continue buying or subscribing.
The goal of the 'journalists' is to get great clips and stay employed. A sane publisher thinks long term - the working journalist thinks short term. In the balance we get first rate newspapers.
Right now the 'journalist have 'won' and the monkey's running the zoo... That's why the system appears nuts from the outside.
Your analysis is interesting. And, I agree with a lot of what you say.
But, the core issue is that a handful of liberals CONTROL these media giants and that has to end for this country to do the 180 it has to do to avoid the cliff. One purely perfect example is that kid that took over from his dad at Comcast. What LIV’s hear to a large extent is controlled by this guy. Google Comcast ownership and read all about him. He answers to no board and is in complete control of the largest media empire in the US and he is an Obama lover from the jump! If I had time, I would look up his name for you.
How would you feel if George Soros bought a newspaper and sold charmingly lovely front page stories to his friends and cronies to manipulate markets? Or sold access to reporters to the 'right people'? That kind of stuff would be a thousand times worse than what we have now.
Journalists do have ethical codes - and some of them are down right admirable. That said, we need to keep up the guilt and the logical arguments to force them to change. Women did that and they're now in newsrooms. Same with blacks and other groups. We need to do the same. Yes, cancel your subscriptions, tell them why, write to advertisers, complain to stock holders, write mean things about the MSM on FreeRepublic.
I suspect the MSM hears our little voices because they're losing money. For all I know the New York Times, LA Times and Washington Post check out our comments about them from time to time. They do see themselves as 'general circulation' newspapers - and not 'in house liberal rags'... so who knows.. We're readers here... we're the kind of people they want... maybe someday they'll hear us well enough to hire a few conservatives.
No, your wrong. I do agree that “journalists”, those few that are left, should have and should adhere to a code. So, on that limited point, we are in agreement. If the profession is ever resurrected from it’s grave I would like to sit in on their first conference to re write a new set of codes.
The problem is as we all know that the vast majority of “journalists” in the profession today are not only liberals but extreme liberals and do not follow or adhere to ANY code or principle other than pushing The Left’s agenda.
If your going to deny that the Alphabet networks and others are “all in” for “The Left’s” point of view then we surely ARE talking to each other on the opposite side of the fence.
Lastly, I see your point about “journalist’s” maintaining independence from owners but I don’t “see it” in actuality and practice. The alphabet’s are firing people almost daily for the slightest failure to tow the line on gays for example.
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