Schieffer: ‘We Now Don’t Know Where People Get Their News’That's uncharacteristically honest for an MSM drone. The perpetuation of the "journalist's" control of the narrative has been lost, and now news from many sources can be retrieved and compared by the average joe. What a blow to poor Bob and the flailing network ex-juggernauts. The MSM's have long defined news that's wrong as being any reporting of the scandals that arise daily out the Left. But now everyone can see how the Left works, if they look. There will always be both perpetual marxist, social justice, "do-gooder", self-anointed elitists who get their news from NPR only, and the perpetual low-information, head-in-the-sand, Democrat 'cause Daddy was, but many are now liberated from such mind control. Will that number ever be enough to wrestle control away in the pursuit of actual freedom of thought? Personally, I'm not sure. The education system has created a new class of historically ignorant, maleducated, entitled parasites, and I'm not sure what direction they will go.
"“We now don’t know where people get their news, but what we do know is they’re bombarded with information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most of the information is wrong and some of it is wrong on purpose,” Schieffer said. “It is our job, I think, in mainstream journalism to try to cut through this mall of information and tell people what we think is relevant in what they need to know. That is the job of the journalist and I have to say it’s harder and harder.”"
Saturday, May 30, 2015
CBS and Bob Schieffer, On The Run
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Two things stand out:
"Most of the information is wrong and some of it is wrong on purpose. . .”
I presume he is referring to the main stream media when identifying the part that is "wrong on purpose." When the mainstream "news" is driven by a no-longer hidden agenda, it should not be surprising that people turn to alternate sources for "news."
"It is our job, I think, in mainstream journalism to try to cut through this mall of information and tell people what we think is relevant in what they need to know. That is the job of the journalist and I have to say it’s harder and harder.”
This is outrageously funny, because it IS honest, even if laced with considerable taqqiya. Muslims have no special lock on taqqiya.
"What WE (the anointed, the elite, your superiors in everything, especially moral issues) think is relevant in what THEY (the rest of benighted humanity, as passive consumers of our selections) need to know" is our job as journalists.
Given alternative sources for "news," it IS becoming harder and harder for the mainstream media to control and spin and promote specific agendas, without THE OTHER finding out that the "news" has been selectively and carefully edited to fit the elitists' prevailing narrative.
I work with a Millennial Progressive who is quite capable mentally; he is NOT an idiot in capability. He regurgitates the stock MSNBC narrative and idolizes Rachel Maddow as one of the few "unbiased" and "objective" sources of "news." WTF?!?!?!?
A usual conversation involves him passionately extolling the virtues of some Leftist agenda piece, and the "evil" Republicans and conservatives who are opposed to that agenda because they are EVIL. When I start asking him logical questions, he either tries to change the subject, or grudgingly concedes that I "might" have a point. I usually continue to press him until he admits that I AM RIGHT, without equivocation. After several such grudging admissions, I then ask if he is ready to change his source of "unbiased" information, in search of something more truthful. "Of course not! It's the only unbiased and objective source of news! I'm a Progressive and damn proud of it, and I support the Progressive agenda 100%!" His idea of "reason" is to parrot the media talking heads bafflegab, without any questioning on his part.
He can observe that he is being given false and contradictory information by the bucketfuls - and yet he continues to accept it uncritically because it comes from an "unimpeachable" source on "his" side.
Round and round it goes. As I am slowly beginning to comprehend, the post-modern mindset (all narrative, no logic) is enamored with "Just So" storytelling. If the story "feels" good AND aligns with pre-existing prejudices, then it trumps any and all logical argumentation to the contrary. It is TRUTH, because it is true for them, even if it is not true for you, and that's the entire truth of the matter.
Sic transit gloria philosophia.
Or, as a post-modern might say:
Sick tranny shit: Gloria Monday. Whatever, dude.
Great she/he/it, that Gloria, but I have a sneaking suspicion she will eventually run headlong into Miss Karma, the reality bitch of the universe, and the ensuing train wreck ain't gonna be pretty for Miss Gloria.
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