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The Tale Wags the Dog as News Becomes Propaganda
The Tale Wags the Dog as News Becomes Propaganda | RealClearPolitics
27 Mar 2021 ~~ By J. Peder Zane
It all seemed so simple. I thought the Trump/Russia hoax would finally force my liberal friends to demand a reckoning from their trusted news sources. As the Mueller Report made clear, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR and so many others had egregiously and unequivocally misled them for years about the biggest political story since Watergate.
If their favorite outlets could be so wrong about that, shouldn’t they bring a healthy skepticism to the coverage of other issues, from police shootings and “systemic racism” to the threat of “domestic terrorism,” GOP “voter suppression” efforts or President Biden’s trouble navigating stairs?
When I asked a True Believer about all this last week – a man whose scriptures are the New York Times, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker magazine – my friend told me I should stop watching Fox News.
After I pressed him gently on Russiagate, he told me that Trump had indeed colluded with Putin but that Mueller pulled his punches because he’s a Republican.
That’s when I decided to turn the talk to baseball.
~Snip~
The left’s intentional substitution of propaganda for facts has turned the national discourse into a blizzard of BS. The latest example occurred last week when the deranged sex addict who murdered eight people at three Atlanta massage parlors was portrayed as an anti-Asian white supremacist. This was false, but because it fit the preferred narrative, facts didn’t matter to President Biden or progressive news outlet.
The brazenness of their lies would take your breath away if we weren’t becoming so inured to them through their ubiquity.
For the moment, at least, progressives are unchained, unrepentant and uninterested in conversation.
They are also in charge.
This is the simple truth.
Comment:
If you ask me when we last had a "free objective press," I would say more than 100 years ago. ossibly never, but in 2016 it dropped all pretense of freedom of the Press.
It's a toxic combination of ideology,confirmation bias, groupthink, and cognitive dissonance. It's not limited to just the MSM, but it's particularly dangerous there because they still shape much of the discourse in the country.
Just look at the narrative around the Cuomo scandal, where the local and state media have been much more critical of his performance on COVID over the past year, while the national Quisling media made him out to be a hero. They all had access to the exact same data, but drew completely opposite conclusions. And of course the national media are now turning on him without a single apology for the false narrative they spread in the past.
It's tough to decide who is more embarrassing - Chyna Joey Xi or his obsequious defenders in what used to pass for our media. As seen by their fawning and soft ball questions in a Press conference that took 65 days to prepare.
I have come to the conclusion that Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA leftism is a brain disorder similiar to "Split Brain Syndrome" because the hemispheres of their brains dont seem to connect properly between left and right. How can someone not see through these people? its so easy. I am astonished that some PMS/DSA leftist acquaintances of mine cant perceive the deceit, folly and subterfuge of the Left. How cynical they are and how they lie, cheat and steal to acquire power. The Left exploit the gullibility of their base and hatred of Trump to advance their cause. With HR1 they intend to never lose again! Then they will get away with lunacy in the schools, etc, without the pendulum swinging the other way to balance them out.
That cannot be made to pass. It's unconstitutional and infringes on States rights as well.
The Tale Wags the Dog as News Becomes Propaganda | RealClearPolitics
27 Mar 2021 ~~ By J. Peder Zane
It all seemed so simple. I thought the Trump/Russia hoax would finally force my liberal friends to demand a reckoning from their trusted news sources. As the Mueller Report made clear, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR and so many others had egregiously and unequivocally misled them for years about the biggest political story since Watergate.
If their favorite outlets could be so wrong about that, shouldn’t they bring a healthy skepticism to the coverage of other issues, from police shootings and “systemic racism” to the threat of “domestic terrorism,” GOP “voter suppression” efforts or President Biden’s trouble navigating stairs?
When I asked a True Believer about all this last week – a man whose scriptures are the New York Times, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker magazine – my friend told me I should stop watching Fox News.
After I pressed him gently on Russiagate, he told me that Trump had indeed colluded with Putin but that Mueller pulled his punches because he’s a Republican.
That’s when I decided to turn the talk to baseball.
~Snip~
The left’s intentional substitution of propaganda for facts has turned the national discourse into a blizzard of BS. The latest example occurred last week when the deranged sex addict who murdered eight people at three Atlanta massage parlors was portrayed as an anti-Asian white supremacist. This was false, but because it fit the preferred narrative, facts didn’t matter to President Biden or progressive news outlet.
The brazenness of their lies would take your breath away if we weren’t becoming so inured to them through their ubiquity.
For the moment, at least, progressives are unchained, unrepentant and uninterested in conversation.
They are also in charge.
This is the simple truth.
Comment:
If you ask me when we last had a "free objective press," I would say more than 100 years ago. ossibly never, but in 2016 it dropped all pretense of freedom of the Press.
It's a toxic combination of ideology,confirmation bias, groupthink, and cognitive dissonance. It's not limited to just the MSM, but it's particularly dangerous there because they still shape much of the discourse in the country.
Just look at the narrative around the Cuomo scandal, where the local and state media have been much more critical of his performance on COVID over the past year, while the national Quisling media made him out to be a hero. They all had access to the exact same data, but drew completely opposite conclusions. And of course the national media are now turning on him without a single apology for the false narrative they spread in the past.
It's tough to decide who is more embarrassing - Chyna Joey Xi or his obsequious defenders in what used to pass for our media. As seen by their fawning and soft ball questions in a Press conference that took 65 days to prepare.
I have come to the conclusion that Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA leftism is a brain disorder similiar to "Split Brain Syndrome" because the hemispheres of their brains dont seem to connect properly between left and right. How can someone not see through these people? its so easy. I am astonished that some PMS/DSA leftist acquaintances of mine cant perceive the deceit, folly and subterfuge of the Left. How cynical they are and how they lie, cheat and steal to acquire power. The Left exploit the gullibility of their base and hatred of Trump to advance their cause. With HR1 they intend to never lose again! Then they will get away with lunacy in the schools, etc, without the pendulum swinging the other way to balance them out.
That cannot be made to pass. It's unconstitutional and infringes on States rights as well.
