Public Enemy #1
Bingo and well said!
Tucker Carlson: the Sad State of Modern Journalism
Accuracy in Academia ^ | August 10, 2016 | Alex Nitzberg
Posted on 8/10/2016, 9:02:47 AM by Academiadotorg
Criticizing the state of modern journalism, Tucker Carlson told AIM that journalists’ obsequious behavior, blatant bias and monolithic worldview have compromised the integrity of the nation’s fourth estate.
Carlson, a member of the Fox News team and a veteran journalist who co-founded the Daily Caller, asserts that many journalists bask in the presence of “the powerful” and are “…afraid to challenge anybody in power.”
“That’s kind of exactly the opposite of what you want. I mean the whole reason that journalists have a special kind of place in American society is because they’re entrusted with this job to kind of keep the powerful honest and to speak on behalf of the population and the second they go over to the other side and start sucking up to politicians, for example, is the second they’ve betrayed that charge.”
Questioned about the media’s election coverage Carlson opined, “I don’t think by and large they have been covering it, they’ve been advocating on behalf of one candidate against another.”
He explained that regardless of the election’s outcome, the media’s advocacy has destroyed its claim to objectivity.
Pointing out that a conflict of interest will arise if Trump wins and the largely anti-Trump media must report on his presidency, he said, “ … how are they gonna cover that, the administration? Can they? Haven’t they discredited themselves?”
“By the way,” he continued, “if Hillary wins, same thing. They’ve been working for her election and now they’re in charge of telling us what her administration is doing, can we trust them with that? I don’t think so.”
Condemning the practice of journalists who air their opinions on social media accounts, Carlson noted the corrosive effect this has on the public’s trust as they can easily discover a journalist’s political leanings.
Carlson says that while he values diversity, within the modern field of journalism “ … everybody has the same experience, they’re all from the same world, they all have the same assumptions, they all went to the same schools.”
He described journalism school as an “indoctrination center” that perpetuates the lack of diversity of thought in the media industry.
” … journalism school is just another sameness factory that pumps out people with identical opinions, and by the way, it’s only accessible to a certain kind of person — the exact kind of person we don’t need any more of in journalism — affluent, entitled, activist.”
Carlson believes journalists should seek the truth, “even if it leads them into uncomfortable places and especially if it leads them to places they didn’t expect to arrive … that’s what I thought journalism was, pursuit of what’s true, of accuracy, but not just accuracy, of truth.”
Alex Nitzberg is an intern at the American Journalism Center at Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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You’re right, of course. How does Donald Trump get his message out?
Public Enemy #2.
Public Enemy #1 is the idiots who fall for it.
We have an un-free press. They are on a cultural and ideological short leash.
Together they will destroy this country.
Outstanding!
I’ve been saying this for years.
Ownership of stock in alphabet media must get dillouted no matter what it
takes.
The quality of our government will never exceed the quality of the press. We’re toast.
100% right!
The media is the worst institution of all. It is even worse than the left wing democrats. It could do the country a service by telling the people the truth, but it has deliberately and intentionally chosen to use its resources to promote a leftist agenda, and to destroy normal thinking.
Of this I have been trying to convince people for decades.
ISIS is not our worst threat. The Taliban is not our worst threat. Russia is not our worst threat.
Our worst threat is the control of information that is being implemented by what we refer to as "the Mainstream Media".
The media people have been manipulating elections. They have deliberately undermined the process by which a representative democracy can function by rigging the system.
They have rigged the system by how they control the information which the American public is permitted to see. They spend weeks hammering on Republican candidates and they *REFUSE* to make the public aware of Democrat Scandals, Corruption, or policy disasters. (The socialist failure of Venezuela would be constantly hammered upon in an objective media.)
Our party, and our movement *SHOULD* have been trying to destroy this existing media monopoly with fire. We should have been carpet bombing these crony media institutions with every power we could bring to bear within the force of the law.
We should have been turning our guns on the financial and control structures of these vile institutions instead of letting them get away with their propaganda.
We need to start attacking the media itself, and we need to scare the sh*t out of them. We need to send them to prison, and we need to let them know that we are going to work very hard to insure that they get put behind bars for attempting to rig elections.
It's time to quit pussyfooting around with these people and start hurting them in every legal way possible.
So what can we do about it? How do we fight back?
Yawn...Sorry - I’m too busy watching ‘Entertainment Tonight’..
A +
I could not agree with you more.
Absolute brainwashing tool....to destroy critical thinking in the masses.
All the Founders knew that without a Free Press—which promotes ONLY THE TRUTH (as ALL Just Laws have to do), there is no ability for Free Will (choice).
The Hegelian Dialectic was set up in early 1900 to control all main news outlets, radio, etc., as the technology was put into EVERY house so lies could be repeated over and over so Lies would become “truth”.
Now—we have to throw out most everything we “learned” (were programmed) because it is all lies. When our foundation of “knowledge” is lies-—we know nothing and unable to correct the direction to hell.
Given the First Amendment, how can the MSM be made to report the news equally and honestly? Freedom of speech is one thing but the MSM propaganda and bias has obviously killed our control of this criminal government. I’m not advocating this but this is exactly why hot revolutions are sometimes necessary. It’s the same old good v evil.
They are the buggy whip makers of the 21st century.
In an age where billions of people have high def cameras and/or audio recording do we need CNN or even Fox to tell or show us about an event, especially given the lead time required for them to react, to transport crews, trucks, etc?
In most cases they have simply given up. Rather than gather news, they talk about it. Incessantly. Even a satellite truck at fire or flood spends very little time showing the fire or flood and instead conducts a series of pointless, predictable interviews with the reporter waffling on despite knowing nothing about the subject at hand.
In the case of government and politics, it’s even worse. So-called opinion makers, consultants, strategists, and, of course, elected and appointed officials flit between TV studios to deliver undiluted propaganda in the hope that multitudes will be fooled...and often are.
These people never - apparently - tire of talking in a small circle of peers about a laughably limited number of topics. Like a children’s game of telephone they might start with a simple statement or fact and distort or even contradict its plain meaning in 30 minutes or less (see also: federal judges).
And so we have expensive instantaneous global communications networks used primarily to deliver cocktail party tittle tattle in a city built in a fetid swamp. It’s waste and corruption on a staggering scale.
They have that mantle of #1.