These are the three words we need to meme into existence:
"Journalism is Dead"
And it really is. Fake news and the nonstop clockbait have ruined the industry. But theres still a lot of nornies out there who listen to the news. However they are starting to loose trust. I see even my most liberal friends start to question certain bits of liberal news from time to time.
So let's push them over the edge.
Insult journalists and call then incompetent. Point out any hypocrisy in the news to your liberal friends. And the follow it with the words "Journalism is Dead".
We've known this for longer than many of us have been alive. People have always been saying the news is full of doom and gloom, as well as fear mongering all to drive up ratings. The Internet just added clickbait, and caused the mask to slip on the collusion of supposedly competing journalists.
If GamerGate couldn't make distrusting journos mainstream, nothing can.
Gamergate, the way any race issue is covered, movie/tv critics, etc
Ha, a beautiful reversal of ye olde Gamers are Dead. Let's do it.
He was definitely right about the press with this quote.
This is a good way to fight TDS and SJWs. Don't attack the ideas directly because their minds won't allow it, but attack the support structures instead. If someone doesn't like Trump, that's fine, but go after the media with examples of their dirty dealings. Don't attack modern feminism, instead attack the universities that promote that stuff. Attack their budgets, high tuitions etc.
Going after enablers is way more effective on normies than trying to tear down concepts that they have been indoctrinated with their entire lives.
Walter Duranty says hi.
The press has been pushing bullshit left narratives for generations. What's changed recently is that Twitter and the various Journo-lists have moved what their bubbles consider OK far into the insane propaganda zone. Any shred of self-questioning or restraint has been wiped away.
That and the fact that nearly everyone has a camera and the ability to distribute their video. It's a lot harder to frame the story your way when other people are showing what's out of frame.
The New York Times, the most "respectable" US paper for ages upon ages, published literal Stalinist propaganda denying mass murder and won the "respectable" Pulitzer Prize for it.
Your Golden Age fallacy has no basis in fact.
But they've been feeding off of the news services for a very long time. Even when a byline was by some local reporter, they were usually just regurgitating what the news wires were saying, but in their own words.
All that high-minded, high-school media class fluffery about "journalistic ethics" aside (the ideal is rarely the reality of any situation), the news outlets have always been subject to opinionistic "shading", whether from the editors themselves, or the pressure from advertisers (such as when two weeks of Bloom County was not shown in many newspapers because of a storyline that involved the victims of cosmetics testing.) It's just that the modern world, and the internet, has been tearing off all the clown masks off of all the bullshit humans sell to themselves.
It's just that, at one time, the media was skewed towards the status quo, or at least seemed to. Now the "counter-culture" of the mid-twentieth century has become "the establishment" without wanting to admit it.
journalism never existed
Did you guys see Bill Maher last time? He was finally starting to doubt the media coverage of race issues. Baby steps I suppose.
People have been saying Bill Maher is taking the first steps for a decade. He never seems to go beyond a small moment of clarity in a career of bullshit..
That’s a fair point. But I still think it’s a good thing that SOMEONE within the leftist sphere brought this up.
its fine, most of the media is going out of business in next 10 years
People keep making the mistake of thinking that the media is a money making operation rather than a propaganda tool that is designed to operate at a financial loss.
The media will never run out of rich idiots to finance it
They are not "idiots", t's a very useful investment. They run campaigns for you, do your damage control, smear your opponents, shill your products without full disclosure, promote people you believe in, de-platform those that you don't... you certainly get your money's worth.
I think a red pill that most people, even here, have yet to swallow, is how shit journalism can and has been historically. I'd probably go eariler than you and point out the cover up of Holodomor.
Of course, there's probably plently of examples from before and after this that are rather small too matter in the long run.
I get what you mean, I'm also Vietnamese. Though from the sound of it, it's been harder on your life.
I think that a lot of people don't understand how long things have been the way they are. Or at least, the beginnings of it. Because it's certainly been around for much longer than Trump, or gamergate, or whatever led to anyone here coming to this place.