Dennis Prager: How the Mainstream Media Operate

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[shhrubbery!]

I was in college during Watergate. The pattern became that every new disclosure was cause for outrage ... it was all about feelings, impressions and manufactured hysteria.

Yes I was in college then too and still have vivid memories of sitting in a darkened student lounge, watching the Watergate hearings on TV. It wasn't a huge draw –more students back then were concerned with their studies, rather than political activism. But a few others were in the lounge, sitting intensely at the edge of their overstuffed chairs.

What struck me was the almost orgasmic delight the Leftist students took in hating Nixon. I still considered myself a liberal back then, but the experience opened my eyes. It was the first time I'd seen such seething, pathological hatred.

Now I've seen that hatred expressed many times, toward many people.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Yaelle]

Dennis is all about clarity, and this great, simple, brilliant essay proves he nails clarity on the media situation.

[Yaelle]

A brilliant piece. Should be required reading for Conservatives.

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Addendum: Should be required reading for liberals too.

[Skooz]

bfl