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WHAT?! NBC Asks Rather Why People Think Media ‘Make Up Stories’
MRC NewsBusters ^ | 11/06/2017 | Kyle Drennan

Posted on 11/06/2017 10:33:52 AM PST by ForYourChildren

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To: Dixie Yooper

Yup. Liberal projection.


41 posted on 11/06/2017 11:15:22 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: ForYourChildren

Dan Rather: “The document may be fake, but believe me the information is true” LOL Guy has some one create a fake document and gets busted, and then is the “Voice of reason” behind fake news?


42 posted on 11/06/2017 11:20:16 AM PST by realcleanguy
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To: ForYourChildren; John Semmens

Is this some devious plot by NBC to remind people that CBS is just as fake as they are? Or has John Semmens hacked into Savannah Guthrie’s teleprompter.


43 posted on 11/06/2017 11:21:08 AM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: ForYourChildren

Ummmmm, cuz you do?


44 posted on 11/06/2017 11:30:59 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Ratherbiased ..., bwahahahahahayhahahaha !... Total Commie joke ...


45 posted on 11/06/2017 11:32:31 AM PST by VRWC For Truth ( Freep u, Schmucky)
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To: ForYourChildren

Surely NBC remembers this, eh?

46 posted on 11/06/2017 11:33:50 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: ForYourChildren

It is what they do.


47 posted on 11/06/2017 11:34:31 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: lacrew

Walter Duranty preceded Walter C.


48 posted on 11/06/2017 12:11:49 PM PST by kallisti (Both soliloquized alternately and imagined they were conversing)
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To: ForYourChildren

You can’t make this stuff up...


49 posted on 11/06/2017 12:18:56 PM PST by GOPJ ( http://fakehatecrimes.org/ - List of fake hate crimes against traditional/conserva tive Americans)
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To: ForYourChildren

Koi video. The media lie du jour.


50 posted on 11/06/2017 12:19:19 PM PST by Flick Lives (The FBI is a taxpayer funded Mafia organization)
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To: ForYourChildren

We are surprised it is only 47% who think the media makes up lies to tell us.


51 posted on 11/06/2017 12:21:18 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Asks Dan Rather? Triple LOL


52 posted on 11/06/2017 12:21:24 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Sacajaweau

What’s the frequency Kenneth?


53 posted on 11/06/2017 12:33:22 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (The "God Gene" is evolution's way of saying "Chaos Sucks!")
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54 posted on 11/06/2017 1:24:16 PM PST by bushpilot2
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To: ForYourChildren

Asking Dan Rather why the media makes up stories is like asking Willie Sutton why bank robbers rob banks.


55 posted on 11/06/2017 1:36:23 PM PST by chuckee
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To: ForYourChildren
Our job is to bear witness, to be honest brokers of information. To be as accurate and fair as we possibly can.”
That’s just the trouble - you are so cynical about American society that your ability to be accurate and fair is negligible. In fact, the fact that you claim to be objective - not to be trying to be objective, a laudable ambition if true - simply proves that you actually are not even trying to be objective. You simply make the claim, and then print whatever fact or fiction you find congenial to your own interests.

You know perfectly well that you are negative; “If it bleeds it leads” is Journalism 101. But it is so not because negativity is objectivity, but rather because bad news sells newspapers. To claim to be objective while knowingly being negative is to claim that negativity is objectivity. But “the conceit that negativity is objectivity” is a perfect definition of cynicism.

Thus cynicism is baked into the journalistic cake. But nobody can be cynical about everything; if “A” and “B” are opposites and you are cynical about “A,” you cannot but be naive (at best) toward “B.” Journalism is cynical about society; about government, journalism is at best naive. Which is a precise description of socialism. And whether you call socialism “liberalism” or “progressivism” or whatever expression you may concoct, journalism naturally defaults to pro-socialist propaganda.

And whatever rebuts socialist propaganda, be it never so novel, never so interesting, never so important - just doesn’t suit your idea of “news.”


56 posted on 11/06/2017 3:01:02 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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