{"id":43632,"date":"2018-07-13T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43632"},"modified":"2018-06-22T21:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T01:42:05","slug":"qotd-decline-of-the-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/qotd-decline-of-the-mainstream-media\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Decline of the mainstream media"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happened to that instinct to go find the story that the \u201cpowers that be\u201d wanted buried? Yeah, I know how the Internet has slashed into the paid-advertising model that supported \u201cobjective\u201d daily newspapers. But don\u2019t you think the ongoing loss of audience and credibility of the \u201clegacy media\u201d might also have something to do with the fact their little drones now all recite the \u201cLeftist line\u201d in unison \u2014 never challenge any of the sacred cows?<\/p>\n

That what remains of the American and European \u201cnews media\u201d would become captive to the screeching Collectivist\/Globalist Left was predictable. First our colleges and now even the government youth propaganda camps (\u201cpublic high schools\u201d) have been captive to unionized Leftists pushing a thinly disguised Marxist agenda \u2014 Franz Fanon, Noam Chomsky and the like \u2014 for 45 years now. Public schools which quite purposely turn out graduates who are just barely literate enough to follow their marching orders, by the way, with most of a troublemaker\u2019s innate sense of curiosity long since ground out of them.<\/p>\n

(Real research is such a grind. We SO much more prefer the classes where we get good grades for just shouting our opinions about racism and oppression and stuff. And now we even get a free field trip to the state Capitol to shout it out for gun control! \u2026 even though we wouldn\u2019t know a muzzle brake from a stripper clip, and couldn\u2019t tell you who wrote the Bill of Rights or why he (or they) believed a citizenry armed with military-grade weapons is somehow \u201cnecessary to the security of a free state.\u201d \u2026 Or even where that phrase appears.)<\/p>\n

With the exception of a few pretty network news readers with great hair, no one ever went into journalism for the money. The sense since Woodward and Bernstein took down Richard Nixon was that journalists had a mission to take down greedy white \u201cdeplorable\u201d politicians (and if we can\u2019t find any, we\u2019ll invent some. \u201cIf you\u2019re for enforcing the existing immigration laws like every other nation on earth, you\u2019re a racist!\u201d)<\/p>\n

The problem is not just a political \u201cleaning.\u201d The problem is that today\u2019s crop of journalists are so incurious it never occurs to them to notice that their assignment editors are taking orders from owners and publishers who are on the same globalist\/mind-control team as virtually all of those bought-and-paid-for politicians they\u2019re supposed to be \u201cexposing.\u201d The big corporate guys don\u2019t really care which politicians get taken down, since they\u2019ve bought the \u201cD\u201ds AND the \u201cR\u201ds \u2014 they own Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi AND Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham and Trey Gowdy. It\u2019s Kabuki, it\u2019s a Punch-and-Judy show to make people feel they\u2019ve got a real choice.<\/p>\n

Vin Suprynowicz, “On Reporters Who Ask No (Unapproved) Questions”, Libertarian Enterprise<\/em><\/a>, 2018-06-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What happened to that instinct to go find the story that the \u201cpowers that be\u201d wanted buried? Yeah, I know how the Internet has slashed into the paid-advertising model that supported \u201cobjective\u201d daily newspapers. But don\u2019t you think the ongoing loss of audience and credibility of the \u201clegacy media\u201d might also have something to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,28,53,41,13],"tags":[49,213,720,101],"class_list":["post-43632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-guns","tag-newspapers","tag-protest","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-blK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43634,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632\/revisions\/43634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}