The Media Wounded
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
5/13/2019 8:57:40 AM
There still exists a physical media in the sense of airing current events. But it is not journalism as we once understood the disinterested reporting of the news. Journalism is now dead. The media lives on. Reporters today believe that their coverage serves higher agendas of social justice, identity politics, “equality” and diversity. To the degree a news account is expanded or ignored, praised or blasted, depends on its supposed utility to the effort to fundamentally transform the country into something unlike its founding. At the recent third president-less White House Correspondents’ Dinner, passive-aggressive journalists whined that they were victims,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Wetenschapper 5/13/2019 9:15:31 AM (No. 63017)
A comprehensive and well-referenced account of the decline of fall of the Media Empire by one of the most brilliant classicist writers of our times. Recommended as a ´Must-Read´.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 5/13/2019 9:20:25 AM (No. 63016)
Yep. Must Read! Hansen packs a punch.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/13/2019 9:24:22 AM (No. 63015)
Oh boy another must read from VDH. What a shame that this will never see the light of day in the leftist cocoon.
This is worth copying for a refresher. Great stuff for the next time you hear someone say Trump is suppressing the media.
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bubby 5/13/2019 9:40:48 AM (No. 63023)
Well the msm is dead to me, it may still exist but I never watch it, listen to it or believe anything the leftist propagandists of the "self-referential and narcissistic culture of the Washington press corps" says!
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Paperpuncher 5/13/2019 10:14:35 AM (No. 63019)
Definitely a must read. Needs to be posted again tomorrow morning between 5AM and 6AM to stand a chance.
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Nevadadad46 5/13/2019 10:17:22 AM (No. 63009)
A real media "Jaw Breaker" from Hanson.
I see how the left destroys everything it infects. The worst plague this nation has ever experienced. Every major thing that once made this nation great, the left has done their best to destroy, from entertainment to whole cities, to sports, and even our once unchallengeable news media, they have utterly ruined.
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FTA: The people finally are tiring of their bias, their incompetence and their arrogance—and are finally beginning to ignore most of what they say and write.
Yup, I´m done with the MSM, have been for a few years now. Journalism is dead.
I´ll be ridiculed for it, but I get my news from talk radio--Rush, Hannity, and Levin. They may be a little bias, but at least they know it, I know it, and so do the other listeners--more than 20 million.
CNN is dead. Should be given a swift and permanent burial. Perhaps the headliners should get a job with MAD magazine or truly be hired by the democrats. Or the foreign nations they so love to champion.
MAGA!!! KAG!!! Long live talk radio!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/13/2019 11:27:00 AM (No. 63021)
You can´t shoot yourself in the foot and then claim you´re a victim!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/13/2019 11:48:55 AM (No. 63011)
I read everything Dr. Hansen writes that comes across my desk. It is most unfortunate that the people who could best be helped by this knowledge would not read it even if under threat of death.
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Krause 5/13/2019 11:58:09 AM (No. 63010)
Appreciate Hanson naming names, for all to see.
These people need to be identified and called out individually, not just the networks/stations, etc.
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David Key 5/13/2019 12:19:10 PM (No. 63022)
Is it me, or is there a correlation between the rise of politicized journalism and the decline of the traditional press, newspapers and magazines. Perhaps if they served the people by presenting facts and news instead of propaganda dressed in news speak they might not be suffering from a loss of respect and trust.
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dbdiva 5/13/2019 12:21:23 PM (No. 63018)
Re the title: I´ll be happy when the MSM is dead. If they look for sympathy they better not look to me. They made their bed.....
They will reap what they sow and it couldn´t happen to a more deserving bunch.
I HOPE that people are waking up but are they really? I´m a bit cynical.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/13/2019 12:35:04 PM (No. 63024)
I haven’t watched any television news since Desert Storm in 1991 when CNN was the only 24/7 news outlet. And I quit watching even then when they featured that traitor Ramsey Clark bashing our military while the fighting was going on.
I get all of my news right here, on Breitbart and on talk radio.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
stockfootage 5/13/2019 12:57:05 PM (No. 63020)
Must Read!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/13/2019 1:23:01 PM (No. 63013)
Ouch, that´s going to leave a mark on the face of journalism. "Journalism" merged with entertainment to become "media" and think of themselves as movie stars. They even now traffic in fictional scripts. They are all image and little content.
Interestingly, they think this is a superior choice for themselves and us. Their goal is to present and convert us to the "narrative", their way of seeing the world. The problem is, their narratives are brainless conclusions created by the elite who benefit from them. There is little examination of the narrative, its genesis, and its appropriateness. It´s just unexamined groupthink. The members of the media assume it is correct and they assume they are virtuous in pushing it to us.
The problem the media faces is that significant numbers of Americans disagree with their narrative and are capable of thinking enough to see its falsities.
The media then made its fatal mistake, they decided to push the narrative at all costs. Lies, OK. Ignoring reality, OK. Collusion with bad actors, OK. Trampling on law, OK.
They have become the enemy and that is what is killing them.
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MeiDei 5/14/2019 12:15:20 AM (No. 63014)
The problem is there is a very small group of people picking out what is "news" and what can´t be told ... manipulation ignoring Ben Franklin´s warning: "Half the Truth is often a great lie".
In his almanac some more wisdom: "The first mistake in publick business, is the going into it," and "The way to see by faith, is to shut the eye of reason: The morning daylight appears plainer when you put out your candle."
If you missed clicking on the post suggesting VDH´s article be a Must Read for tomorrow and posted early, you can click here too as I concur with all it should be posted in the Must Read section.
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