CBS Deceptively Edits Barr Interview, Leaving Out Key Details On Violent Riots, Police Oversight

The Federalist ^ | June 8, 2020 | Molly Hemmingway

[TBP]

However they have to edit it to make it fit the narrative. If the facts contradict the narrative, the facts lie.

[SunkenCiv]

Partisan Media Shills update.

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[poconopundit]

...the government specifically is a proper subject for skepticism. And of course police are the power of government.

* * *

Yes, and in a City or State that’s built from the ground up on “legal plunder”, the police are especially dangerous.

In fact, if the police fail to protect certain people or businesses, it invites violence on them. That, in itself, could cause more harm than the police going in directly with billy clubs.

Same goes for Washington DC. A bunch of rioters are outside the White House. Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, and the rest of the scum could say “we had nothing to do with that violence” if someone in the Administration was killed.

They’d say, “It was a crazy guy” like the screwball who almost killed Scalise.

But at some point, these people are playing with fire and if a civil war breaks out, well...

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Where is OUR network? Certainly NOT Fox News. Not OAN, minor player. Supposedly Republicans are the RICH party, why won’t someone put their money where their mouths are?

All we need is ONE. That one MAJOR network would steal all the viewers from the rest of them.

I have ALWAYS said that the main problem, the root cause of ALL our nation’s problems was the “news media”.

The planted axiom in your plaint is that there could be such a thing as “conservative journalism.”

That axiom is planted by the incessant propaganda campaign to the effect that “journalists are objective.” Well, guess what! Commercial general-interest journalism is inherently negative! Journalism is the business of attracting attention by reporting things which are both new and interesting. And the one thing you have to know about “new and interesting” is that - as chaos theory elucidates - sudden significant changes are very predominantly negative changes.

How much excitement is generated by the construction of a house? A little interest, as the construction proceeds over weeks and months. How much excitement is generated when a house burns to the ground? A lot. Note that the same magnitude of change of value is involved in either case - but it takes much longer to build a house that to destroy it. Way, way more.

So journalism is (knowingly) negative. And yet the claim is that “journalists are objective.” Those two things, taken together, amount to a claim that “negativity is objectivity.” But "the conceit that negativity is objectivity” is, IMHO, a better definition of cynicism than you will find in a dictionary.

Cynicism and conservatism are like oil and water. E.g., “cynicism" is an antonym for “faith.” In reality journalism is cynical about society. And as Thomas Paine explained in Common Sense,

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;

the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.

The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.

The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .
For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest

Thus, cynicism toward society maps to naiveté towards government - a combination which, I argue, pretty much defines socialism (or “liberalism,” as the socialists have successfully bastardized the meaning of the term).

Journalism as we know it is a format of argumentation. It is especially suited to the perpetration of sophistry. Talk radio - explicitly conservative talk radio - is, OTOH, suited to engaging in philosophy (in the etymological sense of the word). Hence, you could say that the Excellence In Broadcasting network is in fact “our network."

Abolish the Wire Services

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Did AG Barr actually thing that CBS was an honest, accurate, and ethical news organization? I’ve been fighting them for 50 years, esp. regarding some of their Vietnam correspondents (Rather, Safer, Webster, etc).

They haven’t changed one bit. Instead of giving them a Pulitzer Prize for anything, they should get the “Order of Lenin”. They’ve earned it.

[Kaslin]

Slow down, don't be in such a rush to reply. The word you should have used is think instead of thing.