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Posted on 12/05/2016 2:46:07 AM PST by expat_panama
I had a professor who was a proud communist.
He even showed me his Communist Party of America Card.
He would stroke his beard in class and tell us how great communism was.
I sat next to a very pretty girl in this class.
I had been in a couple of classes with her.
She was an average student.
She was receiving really high marks in this class.
I had to park several blocks from the campus because students were a low concern for this school.
I was trudging through the snow to get to my car that I had to open the hood to start because I was too poor to rebuild the carburetor when I noticed a new Datsun 260Z coming down the road.
That was my dream car.
The communist professor was driving that sports car.
The pretty girl from his class was in the passenger seat and waved to me.
The professor wasn’t a real communist.
He was just a dirty old man.
He was BSing the coeds with how mysterious and deadly he was so he could get in their pants.
Karl Marx had promised (and proven with “scientific certainty!“) that the proletariat would rise up and take power through violent revolution, and communist party fat cats, being the “avantgarde of the proletariat” and all, would be their leaders and beloved rulers. Or so they thought.
But nothing happened. Workers showed the stinkers the finger and just wanted to be left alone. Since then, leftists hate Western workers. Obviously they were fascist, anyway. Now, their new “working class”…or at least pet underclass, are 3rd worlders. Muslims, who hate the West and its inhabitants as much as the lefties do. Now they are planning to import as many unemployable Muslims as possible, who are totally dependent on leftists and their welfare state, until their numbers are large enough to overthrow the hated capitalist regime.
Apparently, leftists expect again that their new Muslim underclass will elect them as their leaders and beloved rulers. Boy, are they going to be surprised!
huh. that makes a lot of sense
Our next battle should be taking-back our schools and colleges. My school-teacher cousin unfriended me when I called nonsense on his assertion that Trump will soon round-up all us Jews and put us in concentration camps. He is intelligent and well-educated and another hopeless Brain-dead Liberal.
“But what is the nature of journalism at its core? It is the reporting of news that will attract attention.”
No.
“Attracting attention” is just one way journalism fulfills it’s nature.
It’s nature it’s core, it’s purpose is to make money.
That’s usually not a problem, or at least is better than any alternative.
With the Welfare State, journalism is conflicted by welfare being a government subsidy for consumer spending- and all commercial media benefit from that subsidy.
Consider that even “politically Correct” speech and behavior are just the language of marketers- which is esigned to offend the fewest possible customers.
The Left & the MSM have the highly mistaken notion that ‘they are above all of us’ & they only put up with us so that their menial work can get done.
They think they are smarter than any of us & they never take a split second to think that POSSIBLY they might be wrong about anything.
I hope that George Stephanopolous gets his brain cleansed when it finally comes to light just how corrupt his favorite person—Shrillary—really is and has been.
He is in complete denial that she could ever do anything wrong. I wonder how much $$$ he donated to the Clinton Foundation.
This begs a question-—IF it is found that the Clinton Foundation was just a ruse to get money from people—can those tax deductions for ‘such donations’ be reversed & back taxes must be paid???
Very good read, thanks.
It’s all about power. They have such overweaning pride in their intellectual pretensions that they truly believe they are the oligarchical elite and are meant to rule the deplorable lower classes.
No, I’m afraid it’s just me, and my style of using blockquote under HTML in hopes of making my posts attractive, readable, and distinctive.Journalism and Objectivity- and other vanities of mine which that references, each followed up by multiple responses of my own within those threads over a period of time - would clearly show the development of those thoughts.
Because anyone who works for a living is a sucker and not smart enough to get “freebies” and or advantages from the government.
No.“But what is the nature of journalism at its core? It is the reporting of news that will attract attention.”
“Attracting attention” is just one way journalism fulfills it’s nature. It’s nature it’s core, it’s purpose is to make money.
That objection applies to every company mission statement. But it’s cynical. Everyone wants to get paid, but not everyone starts a shoe repair business, or a jewelry store, or an aircraft factory, or . . .All businesses must make money. The mission statement tells What makes this company worth paying money to?
In that sense, journalism attracts attention. That is worth money to advertisers, who pay for the newspaper’s attracting eyeballs to the proximity of the ads.
Even that is cynical, the journalist would say. The journalist would claim to inform the public, thereby performing a public service. Most of us, I dare say, once believed that - and most of us feel used now that we know that journalism functionally is part of the Democrat Party. Wikileaks reveals that the symbiosis between journalism and the Democrat Party is, if anything, more intimate even than conservatives wanted to believe.
Hah!Not infrequently, advertisers deliberately irritate potential customers in a bid to make them remember their ads.
I wanted to compliment the author. Your analysis of the insular nature of journalists using the Adam Smith insight is exceptionally resourceful.
We get a good amount of insight into those that agree with “us” from Chesterton in Heretics as well. (XIV On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family)
Again, thanks for your insight.
A good example of my point is that local media news has historically defended and protected local revenue sources.
A large employer has gotten favorable coverage, from being an advertiser but also for being a source of income to subscribers- whom advertisers can market to.
It’s not cynical to see the same dynamic nationally by the media for welfare programs - which accomplish the same monetary goals for the media as employment does.
‘More eyes’ or ‘more money per eye’ is the same to the media that present news.
To the media (as to the Dems) a bum on welfare is every bit as valuable as a worker, and more easily manipulated.
Dems and the media ‘news’ have a common interest.
And a non-subscription news source (like TV) owes ALL it’s allegiance and efforts to it’s advertisers who pay for the content. FBN has had to appeal to subscribers as it wasn’t ‘bundled’ and has been outstanding for that reason. But that’s the exception- one that ‘proves the rule’.
Look at our own history: T Paine and continentals. Subversives use the same exact techniques; it's not like the 'long march' is rocket science.
So, the key question then becomes: why is/was it allowed? Well, the easy answer is if there's money to be made or power to be gained/enhanced. Lenin was exactly correct ie rope <-> capitalist.
As to why we/others wait until it's almost too late, well, that's just human nature. Recall what Churchill said:
I've actually used this observation to develop a theory as to why evil always seems to eventually lose. It's related to just when you've basically given up hope, everyone seems to finally realize the 'do or die' moment has arrived.
Example: Nov 8, 2016
That's not really correct; or, it's correct without actually identifying the ultimate source of revenue.
All major media is losing money - badly. Many are in bankruptcy. So, how/why does the LAT, NYC, Wapo, CNN, et al manage to stay in business?
Because the long-term financial play in controlling important media assets is political leverage. What does it matter if the the old media collectively loses a billion dollars, if it can get a stoned, low IQ loser like BHO elected president?
Well, for starters, try $trillions upon $trillions of dollars earned from front-running monetary policy from Wall St.
This line of attack actually provides some advantage to Trump, because if media isn't really being operated as profit motivated "business", then it can be subject to investigation as a foreign controlled political tool.
Including the fact that the AP is owned by Saudi Arabia . . .
When a socialist gets into a position of authority they will only hire fellow socialists. See college and newsrooms.
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