How many MSNBC reporters does it take to change a light
bulb?
One, provided he or she has a very gullible, corrupt, deaf,
dumb or blind editor, a number of unnamed sources, and the rest of the media
establishment to testify that the reporter is unbiased.
Buzzfeed’s open lying this week only showed the inner working
of mainstream media – in which all of them lie or distort information, only
with media such as The Washington Post and The New York Times, they rarely get
caught at it.
A close friend of mine has the unfortunate privilege of
sitting in on MSNBC editorial meetings where it is a daily routine of reporters
and editors to seek out new stories that will humiliate, embarrass or show
Trump in a bad light. If they can’t come up with a legitimate story, they twist
facts of what would be an ordinary story to get the result they want – avoiding
the one mortal sin of doing anything to show Trump in any kind of positive
light.
While I have no friends in The Washington Post (nor would I
want any), I imaging the scene is largely the same. This is not the fault of
either organizations or the host of Washington Post wannabes from coast to coast,
it is the nature of the news biz.
Our job is not to report facts, but to reshape them into
myth.
News is a business and the product we sell is not mouthwash
or any of the ads that appear on the news feed, the product is news – and we
shape this to fit our perceived audience, and those perceived prejudices, and
since contemporary liberalism is largely being anti-white-male, anti-god, anti-old
people, anti-Jewish and pro all those things we used to take for granted as
dangerous – such as the massive release of prisoners, promotion of questionable
radical organizations with ties to terrorism, and a new movement mistakenly
called feminism but it largely thinly disguised man-hate, these are the kinds
of stories we get in our newsfeed from lying and distorted media such as Buzzfeed
as well as the so called more legitimate
media.
The concept of black and white used to mean clear distinction
between fact and fiction, such as the old cliché “there is it in black and
white,” but black and white has since taken on racial overtones as new radical
historic revisionism seeks to smear the lines between truth and non-truth, and
create myths in order to keep true liberal believers happy – much the way the
old church used to make up parables which may or may not have some semblance of
truth or fact, but like political prisoners if tortured enough will say exactly
what media wants them to say and what the audience wants to hear, becoming symbolic
of some larger issue which may or may not actually have validity.
Myth is hard to undo once it has been injected into the
public consciousness. For instance, there are still people who believe Ford’s clearly
disprove claims against Kavanaugh (largely because that’s what they want to
believe and would believe it regardless of actual evidence to the contrary.)
The whole Russian conspiracy is so drenched in the traditions of former Red Scares
and so desperately needed by liberals to justify why Clinton lost that media
continues to spread misinformation and distortion as proof and those sad
liberals who cannot bear the idea that other people have other opinions and can
express them through the ballot box.
This fantasy of Russian influencing the election is perhaps
the greatest myth making of our time partly because all governments interfere with
other nations’ elections – a tradition that goes back to the founding fathers
when such claims were made against Great Britain almost through every election
from George Washington to Abe Lincoln.
But as Gore once pointed out in a different context, the Russian conspiracy
is a convenient truth that allows media to create a mountain of myth out of a
mole hill of bullshit – if not so obviously a lie as Buzzfeed’s was.