Posted on 12/18/2016 10:22:01 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It is all about me
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claims that newspapers are a thing of the past and news will now be delivered by foreign governments through agencies like his.
Assange yesterday blasted US media outlets, contending in an interview that the power possessed by journalists had greatly diminished in recent years.
Talking to his new-found friends in Fox News, Assange said that newspapers were increasingly not very important.
Assange said that the press was a "paper tiger" in the 2016 election and said the rise of new media had eroded the influence of traditional outlets.
He added that the "liberal press" were biased and readers don’t like being lectured or told what to do. And they rebel against it. Odd really as it was the right-wing press and particularly Fox news which dubbed him a sleazeball and calling for him to be arrested as a traitor when Wikileaks published the Bradley Manning leaks.
It is a moot point how much people like being told what to think by the Russian government. WikiLeaks released thousands of hacked emails from top Democratic officials throughout the campaign which US national security officials believe the hacking of such officials was carried out by Russia.
BINGO!
Assange is the only real journalist left in the English speaking world
Ahh .... I think you are forgetting Breitbart!
I generally don’t approve of hackers, because, of course, they can steal your identity, your bank account, etc. But the kind of hacking that’s done to inform a public which is being lied to, is a form of civil disobedience, and as such, I am glad it happened, and that Assange published it.
While waiting for a storm to abate I read an entire modern newspaper in a convenience store in fifty five minutes, then waited another ten until it was safe to drive. Everything in that paper was already learned from Breitbart, Free Republic or WND but it showed how the liberal slant continues unabated despite the ass-kicking they’ve taken for their fanaticism. Truly a mental disease.
Assange is correct, but the title is bizzare. Foreign governments delivering the news? He said nothing of the sort. That is all made up by the Hillary and Obama propaganda machine known as the establishment media. There is no evidence of Russia affecting the U.S. election in a meaningful way. The new media has broken the stranglehold on information by the establishment media.
The entire prog establishment is scared to death. None of the investigations into the Clinton Foundation have stopped. The CIA has overstepped and the media sounds shrill and desperate. None of them know how deeply they will be be tied to corruption and sometime after Christmas, those closest to the CF may begin assembling their insurance policies in anticipation of being the first to cut a deal on their own area of involvement.
Just like some of us have changed our views of Assange and Snowden, they have had to backtrack on their former hatred of CIA. There will be a few who will remember when CIA set them up through front student groups. Another fraction of a percent might recall the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
It’s all good. While hustling to save their own butts, they will remain disorganized enough to blunt their plans for an insurrectionist Shadow Government, for a while. While some cover their ass, others will see opportunities to take out rivals. I wonder how many might leak to WikiLeaks, themselves? How many fear CIA will silence them even as they nod agreement to the “because Russia” tropes? How many are finishing those manuscripts they are writing on computers they have to scan for keyloggers or keep unconnected?
Hard to stage a revolution when your ground troops have themselves gone to ground. And the sandbagging will continue. Leftists always eat their own, so that leaves them under fire on all sides.
We’re not there yet. The Washington Post decides to publish a FAKE NEWS story (or planted news by the Obama Administration, same thing) and the ENTIRE COUNTRY goes into a panic that we no longer have fair elections.
Meanwhile...that same media refuses to cover a REAL STORY, illegal votes in Michigan, and no one cares.
They still own us, whether we like it or not - we have a LONG WAY TO GO, but I suspect Trump will start turning that ship around.
And James O'Keefe.
Of course, Assange isn't a journalist at all. He doesn't investigate or report anything. He is merely a conduit.
So true. Our newspaper has fewer pages, more lefty slant and little to no news.
I rarely read it but my wife still wants it, so...
Our original owner, a true conservative, died a few years ago, and the paper went into the liberal tank.
They still try to pretend that they are 'fair' but it's no use, we can spot the slant, just by the names of the columnists.
If Jennifer Rubin and George Will are touted as conservative writers, well...
...They still own us, whether we like it or not - we have a LONG WAY TO GO, but I suspect Trump will start turning that ship around.
Great point, BobL. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The Deplorable Revolution will take many years to win.
Sure, we kicked the British troops out of the Boston. But the MSM's stronghold is New York and their "fake news" mercenaries are well-trained and richly-paid.
Luckily we have a general who's a master of strategic planning and tactical surprise.
Good one....I love this one, too.
Wait a minute .... I thought he was DEAD.... TWICE!
Our local fishwrap has gone through several deaths and reincarnations.
I have dced our subscription a couple of times and helped to get rid of some vile editors when they went rabid against Reagan and any republican.
Our area is dependent on the local fishwrap to have some idea of what is going on in the city/county.
About a decade ago, the fishwrap gave up trying to tell us who to vote for at any level and hired a fairly good group of locals to actually research stories in their skill set and publish them.
Many are quote senior citizens and others work or own a business in their area of expertise. They do a good job of reporting and keep lib politics out of their articles.
Recently to add story lines and width to the local paper, the editor/publisher is adding a lot of AP and similar stories to the newspaper. My wife will say, you didn’t read yesterday’s paper. My response is I have seen those articles posted on Free Republic, and I’m not interested.
So, my wife will fold the daily newspaper past the front page to local stories, I might be interested in. Yesterday, there was zero past the front page. So we are paying more for less real news and to get the ads hurled at us, like 3 sections of home sales ads, which have more pages than the rest of the newspaper.
This morning, I told her if the newspaper had another big price increase, she would be buying it. She stopped paying for the SF Gay Rhonicle decades ago when it attacked President Reagan on a regular basis after I said I wouldn’t pay for it.
“Everything in that paper was already learned from Breitbart, Free Republic or WND but it showed how the liberal slant continues unabated despite the ass-kicking they’ve taken for their fanaticism. Truly a mental disease.”
I have posted a reply that deals/agrees with what you posted.
The day our local fishwrap goes back to minimal local news and only ap/compost bs, I will cancel it.
Thanks for posting this.
Our generation and a couple below probably subscribe to or buy most of the fish wraps. Most of us have cancelled our subscriptions and would never buy one.
The younger generations both liberal and conservative have zero need for a newspaper.
I have posted before that none of our younger relatives subscribe to any newspapers.
One of our DIL’s, over a decade ago dced her local fishwrap and stopped advertising her part time business due to the cost of the fishwrap, the tons of ads from those selling homes and cars. Also, they increased the cost of their ineffective ads for her business. Their home sold quickly via the internet.
During that time, they were trying sell their home and the ads her realtor had in the newspaper were not working.
We told her to get a realtor. who used the internet. She did and after the first week, they had a lot viewers, several offers for their home over want the print realtor was asking.
She started an effective one woman campaign with other local small business owners to cancel their ads with the local fishwrap. One day, the local fishwrap owner showed up at her business to discuss what was happening.
She told the female owner to sit down and listen to reality or leave. She told the fishwrap owner, that no one in both new developments they had lived in subscribed to the local fishwrap or the bigger fish wraps. So any local business person was $crewed with high priced and not effective ads.
She advised the paper gal, to get out the daily business and have a free weekly delivery on Thur or Fri via the mail. Have the front pages deal with local news and issues. To have grocery store flyers with the weekly deals, and zero real estate and car ads. Have a separate non news publishing for real estate and one for auto. The rest of paper would have low cost ads for local businesses.
The newspaper gal told our DIL that wouldn’t happen.
Our DIL told her to leave, and if the fishwrap didn’t do what had been proposed. That she/our DIL would do it in her part time.
Two weeks later, the last local fishwrap went out of business. A week later, exactly what our DIL suggested appeared in the Thursday mail. Our DIL got free ads for about a year for her suggestion.
During that time, the larger regional fishwrap bought out a smaller competitor and is still trending downward re ad revenue and subscriptions. It and other regional fish wraps are in a death spiral like the buggy and buggy whip makers after Henry Ford started selling cars.
Love it ......
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