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"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby." HL Mencken, 'Notes On Journalism' in the Chicago Tribune, 19 September 1926

The other facet to this mess is the switch in the 60's from "disinterested third party" reporting to "advocacy journalism" as taught at Harvard.

There, the budding SJW culture, fostered by the Communists and Socialists in the faculty, emphasized that "journalists" are required to take a side in any story and "report" from that point of view.

Once that took hold, propaganda became the stuff we read and heard until the Internet freed people to think and see for themselves.

"O" turning control of the Internet over to the faceless globalists means that they will do their best to control the message and limit our ability to discern the truth.

There are some journalists still out there, Sharyl Attkisson, former CBS reporter being one. These folks need every bit of our support.

Ed

Presumably by your presence here, you have a portal into the collective knowledge of humankind - e.g. the internet?

Research, verify, validate. All of the data is out there, some good, some bad. You just need to figure out which is which.

honestly, i'm probably too ignorant to argue. if we have the internet, we ought to make the max use of it, agreed?

7,000,000,000 humans and the internet. what a concept.

You rang?

Yes Doc, you do get the Nostradamus award for prognostication.

I've watched the media go from Leftists attempting to be neutral to dropping all pretense of neutrality to the current outright advocacy.

In the Press, I saw it start in the 1980's with my hometown ATL newspapers. Morning was liberal
Op Ed, afternoon was conservative. They merged and appoint Cynthia "I'm a racial SWJ" Tucker to head the Op Ed page. Soon, SJW race chit was in every section. The 1990's were a Clinton love fest and while the population of ATL went from 2 to 4 million in that period, circulation tanked because too many couldn't stomach the pervasive liberal slant everywhere, even the Sports Op Eds. After the point of no return, they dumped Tucker and TRY to present the Right as well as the Left, but they poisoned the well by 2000 and have never recovered, and WON'T!

CNN started with an attempt to be neutral, but after Newt and the GOP took over in 1994, Bernard Shaw and Wolf Blitzer shed all pretense. Once FOX got going, CNN went as far Left as possible to get viewers after conservatives turned them off for good.

The Obamagasm of 2008 was a joyful celebration of the Bush interlude, who the Left still has hanging chad hysteria about. W should have never been POTUS in their eyes. They expected Gore and basically more of Bill Clinton policy. 2008 they had a choice of HRC or BRO-bama. They had cosmic orgasms knowing no GOP candidate stood a chance. Since 2008, they have been wetting their moist little panties at the prospect of HRC running this country. They did everything in their power to elect her (still doing) and it blew up in the face. Phouc Them!

They will not change. They think they are intellectually and morally superior to you. They will have the undying devotion of roughly 1/2 of the country, and they will see the adoration they get in NY, Boston and Cali and think that's the whole country.

Good news here? There is a new media and Trump can bypass them all and he is! Facebook, Twiitter and Youtube. Trumps wants to get something out without the Press distorting it? Youtube, baby! The MSM is obligated to cover since MILLIONS will see it almost instantly. They can't edit it or distort it. They are screwed.

I love it!

the truth shall set us free, according to the Rev King.

Yes , check out his "And god made a farmer " this was a tribute we did to my a couple weeks ago at his funeral. Along with a video we made of all his favorite toys (tractors) . Was damn hard for me to help make. Even harder to watch.

Truth is, he's dead. He's free at last, but still dead. I'm still here.

Don't disagree, George. But, what I believe Trump should do is what I've been spouting since his win and the MSM continued their lies. Create his own news force. MSM members don't speak truthfully? Easy call. "You're out".
Only Trump's hand-picked news staff would have exclusive access to him. Kill the snake. Kill the poison.

Cronkite was a spinner of yarns, a purveyor of half truths in a time when that was the attainable outer edge of socialist journalism.
"That's the way it was" was never the way it really was.

true enough. his body, etc is out of here.

the ideology he possessed and attempted to advance forward is successful or not.

once again, with feeling, we have 7,000,000,000 humans walking the Urth. surely somebody has a plan for how to deal with the process as we move forward?

In God I trust. He'll snuff us out when he's ready.

TRUTH - life inside the elite bubble.

Could be. It's why I used the word "circumventing". I hope he does that in some imaginative way.

Good post, Dutch.

The key element to understanding the problem is the deeper meaning of the "competition" you refer to. Competition, in the news business, means who gets advertisers' dollars. Higher circulation = higher ratings = higher prices for ads, which means more revenue.

In the days of William Randolph Hearst, owning a newspaper was as good as owning the mint. You printed money, not news.

Up until the 1920's, news was delivered thru newspapers. Newspapers didn't really get any real competition until cable news came along; then the internet came along, and BOTH the newspapers and cable news got shafted.

We're watching the emergence of a new news paradigm. Who knows what it will look like?

Remember, it was Walter who told us the Vietnam war was lost and we had no business being there. I really am glad that he was so smart, and finally showed his stripes!