Posted on 11/13/2018 6:56:47 AM PST by deandg99
Being a Republican in 1971 did not mean the same thing it does today
There were many liberal Republicans then
This is a history New Wave conservatism likes to ignore or deny...
Well.....you haven’t watched F&F in ages....
....Brian has changed.....just like Napolitano
He will say some right things...
....and then the next day blurt something out antiTrump or someone close to Trump
He has a mean edge to him now
In truth we no longer have an MSM. All we have is leftists activists posing as journalists to push their extreme leftist propaganda. Real, critical thinking, journalism is dead. Everyone could see that with their love affair with obummer and their hate fest with Trump.
So easy even a caveman can understand it.
Lawyer + MSM =PU
If you try to define objectivity, what comes out is basically that if you are objective about an issue that implies that, you don’t care about the issue.Otherwise, you can attempt to be objective about the issue, but only by analyzing your own motives, starting with the assumption that you are biased. If you make a good-faith effort in that way to try to be objective, it is permissible to say that you are trying to be objective.
But claiming actually to be objective, is pretty much the opposite of trying to be objective in the way I just described.
If journalists analyzed their own motives, they would realize that “If it bleeds, it leads” implies a negative bias. But, quite obviously, journalists do not seriously analyze their own motives - and so we see them claiming, or powerfully insinuating, that they are objective and that anyone whose perspective differs from theirs is “not a journalist, not objective.”
For anyone to claim objectivity while knowing that they are negative, is to imply that “negativity is objectivity" - which is the conceit of the cynic. Journalism is cynical about American society and - concomitantly - naive about government. Which is precisely the best way to characterize socialism.
I guess I was one of the 18.8 percent in the class of 1982.
Newspapering was more diverse at the level of hometown news, where I spent my entire 25-year career. Never worked on a paper with more than 40,000 circulation, but still got to cover my state legislature.
Most of the managing editors I worked under were what I call “old-fashioned liberals.” I never had any problem with them — all they cared about was that I turn in clean, accurate copy by deadline. And they’d usually spot me some time on deadline because they knew my stories rarely needed much fixing.
Curiously, the worst M.E. I worked under was a self-styled conservative. He was verbally abusive and a slave driver who had no appreciation for the long hours I put in. Yes, sleep deprivation came with the job.
It wasn’t much of a living but I got to see things and talk to people I never would have encountered in any other line of work. I suppose that counts for something.
That whole station is going down the tubes! It’s like that movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
I am curious what the result has been. Has there been a net decline in news viewership?
Walter Crankcase was a liar and a traitor.
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