What’s Wrong With News Reporting

All of our media being completely consolidated into 4 or 5 corporations sure hasn't helped.

You hit the nail on the head, Paulitics. Consolidating the auto industry into 3 mega corporations didn't work out for the consumer any better than consolidating the oil industry into 3 major players.

Lord only knows the mess that the media and banking consolidations are going to leave us.

-Joe
 
Sealybobo, what's more cruel, beheading or waterboarding? Apparently the left-wing media makes a big deal on the latter.

German filmmaker Fritz Kippler, one of Goebbels' most effective propagandists, once said that two steps were necessary to promote a Big Lie so the majority of the people in a nation would believe it. The first was to reduce an issue to a simple black-and-white choice that "even the most feebleminded could understand." The second was to repeat the oversimplification over and over. If these two steps were followed, people would always come to believe the Big Lie.
In Kippler's day, the best example of his application of the principle was his 1940 movie "Campaign in Poland," which argued that the Polish people were suffering under tyranny - a tyranny that would someday threaten Germany - and that the German people could either allow this cancer to fester, or preemptively "liberate" Poland. Hitler took the "strong and decisive" path, the movie suggested, to liberate Poland, even though after the invasion little evidence was found that Poland represented any threat whatsoever to the powerful German Reich. The movie was Hitler's way of saying that invading Poland was the right thing to do, and that, in retrospect, he would have done it again.
The Big Lie is alive and well today in the United States of America, and what's most troubling about it is the basic premise that underlies its use. In order for somebody to undertake a Big Lie, they must first believe Niccolo Machiavelli's premise (in "The Prince," 1532) that the end justifies the means.
 
There are very few quality journalists today. I suspect that there are several possible reasons for that:

First - there are more news outlets on the radio and tv today compared to 30 or 40 years ago. So finding a good journalist is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, making it appear that there are fewer good journalists today than there were a few decades ago.

Second - I think journalists today are more openly biased towards one side or the other, than at any time in the past. FOX News as a channel has a definite right-wing tilt - their "Fair and Balanced" logo notwithstanding. The left has its own mouthpieces - Keith Oberman, Rachel Maddow. Chris Mathews, etc.

Third - The country is extremely polarized right now. So those on the right think that FOX News is the best thing that happened to mankind since sliced bread, while the other half of the country believes that FOX is garbage. The same can be said about commentators on the left.

I do miss Tim Russert - I really missed him during the Elections. David Gregory has some big shoes to fill.
 
German filmmaker Fritz Kippler, one of Goebbels' most effective propagandists, once said that two steps were necessary to promote a Big Lie so the majority of the people in a nation would believe it. The first was to reduce an issue to a simple black-and-white choice that "even the most feebleminded could understand." The second was to repeat the oversimplification over and over. If these two steps were followed, people would always come to believe the Big Lie.
In Kippler's day, the best example of his application of the principle was his 1940 movie "Campaign in Poland," which argued that the Polish people were suffering under tyranny - a tyranny that would someday threaten Germany - and that the German people could either allow this cancer to fester, or preemptively "liberate" Poland. Hitler took the "strong and decisive" path, the movie suggested, to liberate Poland, even though after the invasion little evidence was found that Poland represented any threat whatsoever to the powerful German Reich. The movie was Hitler's way of saying that invading Poland was the right thing to do, and that, in retrospect, he would have done it again.
The Big Lie is alive and well today in the United States of America, and what's most troubling about it is the basic premise that underlies its use. In order for somebody to undertake a Big Lie, they must first believe Niccolo Machiavelli's premise (in "The Prince," 1532) that the end justifies the means.


"If you're not with us, you're against us". "Stay the course" "Saddam was responsible for 9/11".

Yep.....I can see EXACTLY how that applies in today's news and events.
 

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