The Decline of the American Media IV

[Huckleberry]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015913586485555657

Joey Jones (Fox News clown, not the great Alabama receiver): You call him protester. I call him an agitator. He showed up with a cell phone.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

CBS stepped up about Rathergate while channels like Fox purposely lie nearly every day. Rather ignored journalistic standards of veryfing your source and paid the price. Fox talking heads do that nearly every day. Bush did get preferential treatment to get into the reserves. Many others similarly did the same back then also. It was common practice for those who had the power and position. Rather knew it but the 'proof' he offered was false.

CBS would never have run that story in reverse, though, with that low level of verification is my point. CBS wasn't left with a lot of choice if they wanted an ounce of credibility to remain, but Rather had a nasty habit of getting into it with Republican Presidents and making excuses for Democratic ones while never realizing the public could see this. (He literally tried to swing the GOP nomination away from Bush with a "gotcha interview" against Daddy Bush in January 1988, so this was nothing new for him).

Yes, Fox is almost like a caricature of the 80s news anchors in movies like "Airplane II" and "Robocop." CBS (well, until recently) was SUPPOSED to be the crown jewel of the news division, but Rather was the one who spent years letting his personal bias out of the bag.

There's nothing wrong inherently with bias, WE ALL HAVE IT. It's not always equal, but it's there. But we need more people like Richard Harwood, who got so caught up in the 1968 RFK campaign that he went and asked to be taken off the primary coverage team because he liked RFK so much he couldn't be objective.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Yes, Fox is almost like a caricature of the 80s news anchors in movies like "Airplane II" and "Robocop."

To this day, I maintain that Robocop was one of the most underappreciated films of its day. The satire was biting and on-point, but far too many people missed it as they wrote the film off as sci-fi schlock.

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[CrimsonJazz]

This is one of the most extraordinary and illuminating passages in all journalism.

CNN frames Maduro as a paranoid liar for claiming the CIA is trying to overthrow him.

Yet in the very next sentence, it casually notes that the CIA did, in fact, overthrow him.

The level of cognitive dissonance and imperial brain rot you must have to write this, and then have it read by an editor and published, is truly breathtaking.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2016473390337425892

 

[Bamaro]

This is one of the most extraordinary and illuminating passages in all journalism.

CNN frames Maduro as a paranoid liar for claiming the CIA is trying to overthrow him.

Yet in the very next sentence, it casually notes that the CIA did, in fact, overthrow him.

The level of cognitive dissonance and imperial brain rot you must have to write this, and then have it read by an editor and published, is truly breathtaking.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2016473390337425892

I cant see the issue here. He was in power over 10 years. Situations change.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Or another in the long line of favorites...

https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/06/us/florida-zimmerman-nbc-lawsuit

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Or for that matter when the media as a whole ran with a five years previous picture of Trayvon Martin to make it look like Zimmerman assaulted some little guy (to say nothing of their altering of the phone call).

But remember, it was "objective" journalism and Pamela Anderson is a nun.

 

[Tidewater]

My daughter sent this to me. It is, it seems, real.
The Associated Press tweeted this and soon after corrected itself:

Because the internet is funny, the responses were hilarious.
“The writer Sarah Haider joked that there was "nothing as dehumanizing as being considered one of the French" and that a better term was "suffering from Frenchness"
Ian Bremmer, a political scientist, suggested "people experiencing Frenchness" as an alternative.

 

[92tide]

My daughter sent this to me. It is, it seems, real.
The Associated Press tweeted this and soon after corrected itself:
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Because the internet is funny, the responses were hilarious.
“The writer Sarah Haider joked that there was "nothing as dehumanizing as being considered one of the French" and that a better term was "suffering from Frenchness"
Ian Bremmer, a political scientist, suggested "people experiencing Frenchness" as an alternative.

people experiencing frenchness would also be acceptable /s

 

[arthurdawg]

This is one of the most extraordinary and illuminating passages in all journalism.

CNN frames Maduro as a paranoid liar for claiming the CIA is trying to overthrow him.

Yet in the very next sentence, it casually notes that the CIA did, in fact, overthrow him.

The level of cognitive dissonance and imperial brain rot you must have to write this, and then have it read by an editor and published, is truly breathtaking.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2016473390337425892

That is hilarious!

But I think what they meant to say and poorly described was that Maduro blamed them for years when there were no real plans to depose him... And then the situation changed under President Trump.