Thursday, September 06, 2018
How the Press Lies about Itself
At this point in time, if you haven't been living in a cave, it has to be clear to you that the media (in general) is doing us all a disservice.
Almost everything they report is polluted by an opinion and/or bias.
The concept of "just the facts" is long gone...
Almost everything they report is polluted by an opinion and/or bias.
The concept of "just the facts" is long gone...
At AmericanThinker.com, Henry Scanlon recently took a well deserved shot at the media:
"...you can be very much in favor of the free press but against dishonest, agenda-driven reporting – i.e., 'fake news.' In each set, one of these things – legal immigration and the free press – is not like the other one – illegal immigration and fake news – and that's true no matter how much somebody scruple-challenged might bleat otherwise in order to gain purchase on a fraudulent, dishonest position. Make no mistake: all this smushing together of things does not flow from sloppiness or lack of discipline – it is purposeful.
It's how they get away with flat-out lying about things, smearing those they disagree with and whom, therefore, they wish to invalidate, and it's why claiming there is no such thing as fake news is itself fake news. How's that for a hall of mirrors? I'm not sure who decided they're allowed to do this, to vilify you for saying something they say you're saying rather than something you're actually saying, but somebody did, because it's quite a feature these days."
