How the Media Trains Journalists to Lie

Tablet magazine ^ | October 31, 2022 | Leighton Woodhouse

[Albion Wilde]

By ‘ratioing’ NBC’s Dasha Burns for questioning John Fetterman’s health, her fellow journalists hid the truth from the public but exposed how they manufacture consent... [snip] Simply by observing what kind of reporting is incentivized in the business and which kinds of stories will help them get ahead in their own careers, individual journalists self-censor. What emerges is a pliant, self-policing, corporate-friendly media... [snip] Starved of ad revenues, print media outlets changed their business models. They had already been drifting toward partisanship, but now they saw there was money in it. Instead of seeing their readers as consumers of the ads they sold, they started looking at them as potential donors. They began appealing to their political consciences, asking readers to subsidize their noble journalistic missions, NPR pledge-drive style.

[Albion Wilde]

Well-reasoned analysis of the downward spiral of objective journalism.

[Common Sense 101]

Since when does libtard filth need training to lie; it’s innate.

[T.B. Yoits]

Since when does libtard filth need training to lie; it’s innate.

Exactly. These weren't good people who were led astray. These people were chosen for their pathological lack of morals.

[BenLurkin]

As Rush would say, “It’s for the chill-ren.”

[llevrok]

Since when does libtard filth need training to lie; it’s innate.

They communicate via pheromones. I'm convinced!

[Albion Wilde]

The full story at the link gives the example of two journalists who told the truth and were then subjected to a twitter pile-on. The author explains how following the money shows how the truth is forcefully suppressed, even though there is no overt agreement to do so.

[blackdog]

Letters to the editor in 1975 were censored.

Today's Twitter and other social media platforms are merely limitless largely uncensored editorial pages which have replaced newspapers. The journalists who's profession it was to report news have been replaced by the consumer of the news themselves reporting the news. If algorithms pick up words included that the government doesn't like, the editors will censor the post.

So in a strange way they let the village idiots report their news to each other continuously, then steered and redirected if they don't like what they are seeing using "Content Influencers" who's job it is to refute or change the subject from view.

That is what the government is doing with social media now. They employ either directly or indirectly thru NGO's armies of bots which steer the news to obtain desired outcomes. Nobody thinks the billions being spent to "help americans reduce inflation" is really spent for that do they? It goes to various influencers to steer public opinion. In the end the side with the bigger fleet that steers the best wins the hold of power.

[marktwain]

An interesting view, but far too forgiving of the "journalism" before the Internet.

Big media "journalists" long before the Internet, shaped the narrative of what was allowed.

Those "journalists" were overwhelmingly ideologically Progressive.

FDR shaped the ideology of the Radio Networks; the radio networks became the television networks. They were overwhelmingly Progressive.

Remember that Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man" in America, was an unacknowledged, lifelong Communist.

Then you will begin to understand how much we have been lied to for 70 years.

The Internet did not create partisan reporting on the dominant media. It exposed it.

[cuz1961]

Urinalists.

All of the msm.

[chiller]

I heard Dasha Burns 2 reports:

1) Fetterman can’t communicate well which got her in trouble

2) a sanitized NBC report after the debate, iirc which was 180° opposite and out of phase with her report days before. Nothing to see here. Never mind about that first report. Never mind what you just saw.

It was plain as day she had a talkin’ to. I thought; is this the same guy.

After the tsunami, decimated Ds will rely heavily on media to make their case.
Media must be challenged at every turn and made to own up to their lying, distortions, and omissions.

While we can’t vote media peeps out of office, in effect, we actually can by turning them off. Lemon’s move to morning is proof. No one watch him in Prime Time and owners tired of losing money.

[Albion Wilde]

An interesting view, but far too forgiving of the "journalism" before the Internet.

What was also true during earlier eras was that contrasting opinions were available. Large metro areas often had right-leaning newspapers as well as leftist ones, such as the Washington Star (DC) and the Philadelphia Bulletin. Many newspapers of the past identified their founding leanings in their names, such as the (former) Times-Democrat in Fauquier County just outside DC, or the Herald Republican in Angola, Indiana, halfway between Chicago and Detroit.

The leftist coup in the U.S. actually started 100 years ago, but was willing to progress slowly; the media was certainly one of its targets. Only since Obama has its takeover come out so nakedly in public view. Much of the public is still in denial, however.

[Albion Wilde]

While we can’t vote media peeps out of office, in effect, we actually can by turning them off. Lemon’s move to morning is proof. No one watch him in Prime Time and owners tired of losing money.

Yes; vote with our feet; vote with our money; vote with our remotes.

[Vigilanteman]

These people were chosen for their pathological lack of morals.

. . . which is why they are drawn to leftist journalism like a moth to a flame.

[marktwain]

The leftist coup in the U.S. actually started 100 years ago, but was willing to progress slowly; the media was certainly one of its targets. Only since Obama has its takeover come out so nakedly in public view. Much of the public is still in denial, however.

We are not far off. I argue the clear switch from ideological bias to unadulterated partisanship happened shortly after the Republican revolution in the 1994 midterms.

Before that election, the media still believed they were being fair, and honest.

They were completely surprised at the results. They did not believe it was possible.

After 1994, the gloves came off and the media had obviously taken sides.

[tomkat]

The Internet did not create partisan reporting on the dominant media. It exposed it.

THIS bears repeating !

[Albion Wilde]

You have a point about the big push in 1994. The Clintons were in, and actively pushing for what we see today. They have stayed behind the scenes ever since, pushing and pushing. God help us from the Kennedys, Bushes and Clintons. America is not about royalty.

[SunkenCiv]

Media? Train? Preexisting psychopathology accounts for it.

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