When All The Media Narratives Collapse

The Weekly Dish on Substack.com ^ | Nov. 12, 2021 | Andrew Sullivan

[Texan4Life]

In case after case, the US MSM just keeps getting it wrong.

When the sources of news keep getting things wrong, and all the errors lie in the exact same direction, and they are reluctant to acknowledge error, we have a problem. If you look back at the last few years, the record of errors, small and large, about major stories, is hard to deny. It’s as if the more Donald Trump accused the MSM of being “fake news” the more assiduously they tried to prove him right.

[Texan4Life]

Even some Lefties see the problem with their hallowed sources, like the WAPO and the NYT.

[ronnie raygun]

When the scumedia try to convince us all that the Rittenhouse case is all about racism when all the people involved are white

[TigerClaws]

Look at the retraction the WaPo put up on their Pulitzer winning srticles about Russiagate.

Theres a narrative created. Ur institutions are corrupt. Post Christian america is ugly.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Ministry of Propaganda does not even care if we all know they are lying anymore.

[Blurb2350]

Exactly. This quote from Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) sums it up nicely: “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

[coloradan]

They’re not the MSM, they’re the gaslight media. Their job isn’t to inform people, it’s to persuade people into believing false things: Russia! Russia! Russia!; Kyle Rittenhouse shot three black men; enacting Shall Issue will bring blood in the streets; inflation is transitory; Merrick Garland is a moderate; etc. They’re not just mistakes - they’re deliberate deceptions.

[NewJerseyJoe]

P4L

[Steely Tom]

The Ministry of Propaganda does not even care if we all know they are lying anymore.

"When they know they have you, then they really have you."

— Neil Diamond

[libertylover]

But when the sources of news keep getting things wrong, and all the errors lie in the exact same direction, and they are reluctant to acknowledge error, we have a problem.

Yes, see Tagline. He should've seen this years ago.

[odawg]

“This doesn’t mean that Trump wasn’t eager for Russian help.”

This idiot correctly complains about media bias, and then engages in a little of his own.

Again I ask, as I have been asking for years, what exactly, if that is the case, precisely what help did Trump think the Russians could deliver for him? No one has of yet bothered to identify it. The nebulous accusation is supposed to be a substitute for a detailed specificity.

[libertylover]

But notice how the narrative — embedded in a deeper one that the Blake shooting was just as clear-cut as the Floyd murder,

B.S. With George Floyd's cause of death being heart failure due to a massive self-induced drug overdose, what's very clear-cut is that Floyd was NOT murdered.

[hopespringseternal]

The stupid and the programmed will never stop believing them, and they relentlessly persecute anyone who sees through their lies.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[sauropod]

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[Cen-Tejas]

I AGREE. I quit reading the article when I got to the part that said, approximately, “he had no business there”. Yes he did, town businesses called for “citizen” help against rioters that the State had turned loose on them. Arguably, him and his fellow “armed citizens” had more business there than the anyone since the police were, apparently, doing little or nothing to stop the rioting.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . the US MSM just keeps getting it wrong."

That's putting it too politely. They are either lying, or lazy, or both. They have an agenda. They have a script. Gaslighting is now the norm.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

A cry from the wilderness for Dan Rather to return and bring dignity back to journalism.

[Sicon]

embedded in a deeper one that the Blake shooting was just as clear-cut as the Floyd murder

Floyd wasn’t murdered. He died of an overdose of the fentanyl that he swallowed to prevent the police from finding it.

[webheart]

Calling them errors is giving them cover. They are not errors mistakes misunderstandings they are lies lies lies.

[DeweyCA]

Good compilation of some of the false narratives that the MSM has been pushing on us in the past few years. The MSM is just a leftist branch of the Dems. And the people who watch the MSM won’t acknowledge any of this. Very sad.