We've all heard stories about news outlets accidentally issuing an obituary-report of somebody who hasn't actually, well, died, yet. It happened with Ronald Reagan and it's happened with others. I know how this happens.
Knowing that a big event is on the horizon, news outlets will prepare their coverage in advance, and when the moment arrives all they have to do is fill in the necessary blanks and their story is done.
It's not a malicious mistake to air it, only embarassing.
But media outlets today are doing something that is more irresponsible, if not sinister, because it is deliberate. They are pre-writing history. In contrast to writing material about an event they know will happen, they're writing material about events they will ensure happen.
The media will create a successful Obama Presidency, no matter how incompetent and unprepared he is. I believe that we live in an era where mass media in most cases has discarded their dedication to any sort of accurate and fair journalism in favor of the much more intoxicating role of determining the outcome of events. They have power. And they are using it. The media believes that it's now more noble to help achieve social justice than to simply report the facts. After all, who's not for social justice?
It's been in the works for a long time, this transition from the truth-driven media to the cause-driven media. The transition is about complete. As a concerned citizen, taxpayer, father, husband, and human being, I don't expect the mainstream media to honor our American heritage of limited government and rugged individualism. On the contrary. They will do all they can to shape a utopian reality that up to this point has only been depicted in books by Huxley and Orwell.
If you think everything is twisted, that good is being called bad and bad is being called good, you're not alone. We're living in a world where realities are perceived in reverse. It's happening so the media elite can feed their need to control outcomes.
I believe with yesterday's advent of the socialist Presidency, a corresponding four-year campaign of Orwellian propaganda began in earnest as well.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Authoring history before it happens
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5 comments:
Well said Host.
I'm sure you know you're not alone in your thoughts, Neal. Here we go.
Aaaaand you fail to provide a single bit of proof for your theory? This is me surprised.
This show and others like it, that seem popular in this area, are on the other side of the spectrum you mentioned. You're doing the same thing that you wrote about. There is no "honest" middle ground anymore. There are just two sides attacking each other, both believing they are right and the other is wrong. All hypocrites.
Whoa, Nathan.
My program does not bill itself as a fair/balanced/journalistic attempt to purvey information.
We're clear with our listeners that it's an opinion show, and opinion has always been part of our American Heritage.
My complaint is that the Mainstream Media is no longer telling us "We're telling you just the facts here" or "We're telling you our opinion" here, they simply present it all as truth.
The filter is gone. I don't have a problem with left media and right media. I have a problem with any media with an agenda that's hidden.
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