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To: bagster
Does it mean reporters suck or liberals suck.

My time machine is failing to start up. I can’t go back to when there was a distinction between them. . . in fact, I’m not sure my timedial settings go back that, even if it would start.

5 posted on 04/29/2020 11:48:38 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker
My time machine is failing to start up.

Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.


6 posted on 04/30/2020 12:07:56 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Swordmaker
Does it mean reporters suck or liberals suck.
My time machine is failing to start up. I can’t go back to when there was a distinction between them. . . in fact, I’m not sure my timedial settings go back that, even if it would start.
The distinction (I didn’t say, “difference”) is that an “objective journalist” works as a journalist and a “liberal” does not. A “liberal” can become “objective” by the simple expedient of putting on a reporter hat and rejecting the application of “liberal” as a label for his politics.

The meaning of the two labels is otherwise the same, namely, “simpatico with the consensus imposed by the journalism cartel.” Break unrepentantly from that consensus, and a reporter becomes “not a journalist, not objective.” Break unrepentantly from that consensus, and a “liberal" becomes a right wing extremist.

The journalism cartel organically self-assembled (due to the wire services generally and the AP in particular). The AP “wire” is a virtual meeting of the AP and its member newspapers. It has been ongoing since before the Civil War. And given that “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices” (Adam Smith), a journalism cartel was and is the inevitable result.

Crises are good for journalism and for big government, and that is an explanation for the cartel’s socialist slant. Since the wire services are a Nineteenth Century solution to the Nineteenth/Twentieth Century problem of expensive telegraphy bandwidth, wire services have no legitimate raison d'être justifying their violation of AntiTrust law.


11 posted on 05/03/2020 10:26:19 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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