Posted on 04/07/2021 5:44:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Georgia example is instructive in illustrating exactly how much of our conflict is downstream of the broken media.
The media’s false reporting about new election legislation in Georgia whipped up a controversy that left millions of people grossly misinformed, frightened voters, mired major corporations in high-stakes public relations frenzies, distracted the political discourse, and furthered the country’s divisions. In short, it’s a perfect example of how the media is fueling our national conflict.
In this case, the media uncritically regurgitated Georgia Democrats’ partisan hyperbole, treating a narrative the party strategically crafted to defeat the legislation as fact and turning it into a long and false national news cycle. That news cycle left the public with an impression that the legislation was objectively racist.
That impression scared and motivated the public, leading employees to pressure executives into action. Worse, the false coverage led millions of people to believe that a major political party representing half the country was seeking to reinstate Jim Crow.
The coverage from our country’s major publications was so bad that after a few days, even liberals like Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips and Will Saletan of Slate began pushing back. Those responsible for the bad coverage, which is the bulk of the legacy press, appear to be facing no consequences.
Over at RealClearPolitics, Carl Cannon wrote a poignant column on the offensive absurdity of invoking Jim Crow in this context.
“When Donald Trump likened his being impeached to a lynching, living relatives of Willie Edwards and Emmett Till called this comparison ‘ignorant’ and ‘insensitive’ and ‘offensive.’ They were right,” Cannon wrote. “But now Biden is invoking racist history, and doing it to score partisan political points. Millions of Americans who voted for him hoped they were done having to listen to such blasphemy from the White House.”
Sadly, the media parroted that partisan spin, legitimizing the Democratic Party’s narrative by presenting it under the banner of journalistic neutrality. For a clearer glimpse at the consequences, read this New York Times report on the internal frenzy at corporations like Delta and Coca-Cola, which spent days fumbling to respond under pressure from the media, activists, and staff.
That pressure stemmed entirely from misinformation peddled by the legacy media. Without the media’s legitimization of a partisan narrative, concerned employees wouldn’t have been reaching out, the external pressures of a PR threat would have been negligible, and the corporations could have focused on the business of taking us on spring break and making our mixers.
As a result, days of time were wasted at major corporations, bottom lines are taking a hit, the news cycle ignored stories of greater import, and millions of people were misinformed on a serious issue. On the other hand, news outlets drove web traffic and retained eyeballs, so they profited off our conflict and their failure.
Over and over again, the legacy media falsely reports major details of major stories. Take Sunday’s bizarre “60 Minutes” report on Gov. Ron DeSantis, which Mollie Hemingway eviscerated on Monday. On that same network last weekend as well, months after the media worked in concert with Big Tech to suppress a New York Post report, Hunter Biden admitted the infamous laptop could be his.
There is a long list of headline news the legacy media has gotten absolutely wrong in recent years. Their combination of bias and incompetence ensures the bulk of our news is run through a filter and distorted before making its way to the public, thrusting us into an enormously dangerous alternate reality that leaves us ill-informed, divided, and distrustful. (The media, for instances, loves to fear-monger over conspiracy theories. But those theories become more attractive to people because of the media’s abject corruption.)
All that is to say, the media is our primary window into public affairs. That window is obviously shattered. The Georgia example is not an exception, it’s the rule. The legacy press still reports some factual information, puts reporters in harm’s way, and uncovers important details. But it folds nearly all of that work into false broader narratives.
The botched Georgia story, which even Democrats now believe the media botched, should induce some humility in the legacy press. It will not. For a variety of reasons, they mostly refuse to see the cracks in the window, which only makes the situation much worse, leading to gaslighting and an exacerbation of existing faults.
Moreover, the Georgia example is also instructive in illustrating exactly how much of our conflict is downstream of the broken media. If the press had bothered to cover the story fairly, we would have been spared a week of pain and division, corporations would have been spared days of frantic distractions over nonexistent problems, lawmakers could have focused their time on real issues, and voters would have an accurate rendering of the situation.
The media is broken, and that brokenness is a primary source of the country’s problems. Editors should get their reporters in check and publishers should get their editors in check. Given the unlikelihood of that course correction, consumers can help by becoming skilled news readers and supporting new media. Politicians can help by ceasing to reward bad actors with interviews and scoops for the sake of their own ill-conceived communications strategies.
In short, the media is no longer a secondary problem because of its partisan bias. Its ideological bias has festered into incompetence that is creating and worsening just about every single one of our problems as a country, from basic efficiency to institutional trust to race relations. Defeating the legacy media’s stranglehold on information delivery must be a top priority for the left, right, and center.
IMHO the defining moment for the MSM was when as a unified entity they absolutely refused to investigate or report on the Hunter Biden harddrive. They openly colluded with the corrupt, demented Biden. They purposely censored information from the American people regarding Biden’s true nature. They did this to advance the goals and ideology of those that own and control them. They are ardent socialist/globalists with little regard for the American nation, its heritage or people. In their mind it was absolutely necessary to depose a capitalist, America first Trump by any means necessary. They have lost forever all credibility.
Georgia’s election reform law is far too weak and soft to ensure real ballot integrity!Governor Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State should have eliminated no-excuse, widespread mass Mail-In Voting, gotten rid of the dangerous and unsecure Drop-Boxes, and should have kept and EXPANDED Signature Verification to do matches against the historical voter file, among other things! Hope the RINOs are happy.
I'd love to see the lying media beast starved - but it seems some uber-wealthy lefty always comes forward to bail them out.
Ping for your cartoon !
Since I consider myself a strong supporter of the MAGA ideology, I started to think about those who are my opponents.
Here is my preliminary list:
1. Fake News Media
2. Democrats
3. RINO Republicans
4. Corporate Bullies who do not want voting rules.
5. Corporate leftists who gave millions to BLM to take out Trump in the 2020 election.
6. Teachers and Bureaucrats in our public school system.
7. Professors and Bureaucrats in our public and private university system
8. Non-governmental organizations (NGO) who aid and abet the importation of illegal aliens.
9. Government workers at the Federal, State, and Local levels.
10. Deep state operatives within all levels of government.
11. Big tech censors
Feel free to add to my list. We are at war and the opposition is huge.
12. Free Traitors
As the elites allow more “poor” to pour across the border, as wealth is redistributed from the middle class, we move closer to Marxist utopia.
Progs/libs/Dems are also destroying wealth with frivolous debt, as the value of middle class holdings, produce tax and inflation victims.
Also, open borders gives predators a huge supply of children molest. ....Biden, Epstein, Clinton, Weiner, the Hollywood elite, etc.
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POINTS TO PONDER----AMERICANS KNOW BIDEN'S P/C STUPIDITY HAS RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF OUR COUNTRY
<><>Cuba Summons Biden Envoy to Complain About ‘Flagrant’ Human Rights Abuses in U.S
<><> Communist Cuba’s complaints follow those of Communist China.
In Alaska, China's senior CCP official Yang Jiechi, b****-slapped the US and lacerated Biden’s top diplomat,
the spineless Secy of State Antony Blinken, saying "the US is not qualified to speak to China from a position of
strength because of its own alleged wrongdoings."
Biden is relegated to ruling with force and fear, not w/ the required consent of the governed....thanks to his worship of "P/C wokeism."
Every move Biden makes is (A) to make every Biden family member filthy rich and (b) to assure China he is still in abject obeisance to them.
He's so dumb, Biden hasnt yet figured out, WE THE PEOPLE, KNOW he and the Democraps have lost control of our country.
That means more razor wire around the Capital to protect the scalawags from we, the people.
Electoral Fraud is -and requires media complicity.
ALL “progressive/left” power originates from Electoral Fraud. ALL urban decline commences with electoral fraud. ALL OF IT.
The disenfranchised voters then leave...taking their money and their businesses..allowing the criminals to run the show.
Electoral Fraud ALWAYS precedes Leftism and Progressivism..because at the end of the day..Leftism is essentially a disordered mind/mental illness...and most people who can hold a job and are productive enough to be taxpayers are not mentally ill and reason just fine.
Those aiding and abetting local Electoral Fraud then get “theirs’ from the process starting in motion the urban declines. In the 50/60/70’s it was the bookies/the mob, by the 70/80/90’s the dope cartels, by now it has evolved into human trafficking with manifold different expressions as outlined in multiple places on the interwebs
Once the fraudulent processes are in place the networks of control assembled from decades of accumulated dirt and control crimes on one another in local and state and national politics layer and layer into a massive social/administrative/economic national mess. A slow “progression”into a nationwide dystopia.
The media are all complicit in helping to paper it over.
It was defined previously by having their lips Gorilla glued to Obama’s butt cheeks. Before that was the hatred of W, the coolness of BJ Clinton, the ineptness of Ford, Reagan. There is a pattern.
Change the news, change the country.
It’s really as simple as that. The idea is simple, but the implementation requires a Herculean effort.
This is only a part of the story!
Read the first paragraph of this article about PsyOps and Color Revolutions (https://bit.ly/39SEW9p) or watch this short video from the Tucker Carson show (https://bit.ly/3dGSYMt).
The entire movement involves many institutions including the so-called media. They have one objective. To keep the “good ole system” in place and remove anyone who gets in the way through any means.
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