This article was originally published by B.N. Frank at Activist Post.
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Broadcast news programming has changed a lot over the past 15-20 years. News magazine programs like “Dateline” covered more than tragic and twisted crimes. They also didn’t use marketing slogans like “Don’t Watch Alone.”
Drama sells and, unfortunately, there seems to be no shortage of it being reported by all media sources. But when is it news and when is it deliberate public manipulation?
From “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” – Unfreedom of the Press:
Sharyl: You wrote “the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession, not through government oppression or suppression, but through self-censorship, group think, bias, omission and propaganda.”
Mark Levin: There’s a new doctrine that’s being pushed in journalism school, has been for about 30 years, which is to push what’s called public journalism or community journalism, which is social activism. And so now you have a lot of reporters, Jim Acosta is a perfect example, who create the drama, then report on their own drama that becomes news for five days. President calls that “fake news.” He’s right. There was a professor Boston who used to head the Library of Congress, but he was a historian at the University of Chicago. Wrote a whole book on it, pseudo events. Our news is filled with phony events and filled with propaganda.
Yikes. No wonder I feel like I’m watching Wag The Dog when I try to catch up on current events.
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While I am not saying that I would like to be run by the Satanists, the 99% are completely passive masochists in desperate want of an outlet — an element of society that sacrifices itself willingly.
Using the word “Journalists” is a bit of a stretch; real reporters actually get up from their desks and get facts as opposed to regurgitating what they read on the interweb.
Journalists???????? Be serious.
Nice idea.
Most journalists would prefer to be successful paperback writers–smutty popular drama mixed with erotica, political conspiracy–that sort of thing. Lacking that sort of talent or luck they compensate as best they can.
I remember when this site used to be about prepping. Bummer it’s sunk so low. Mac…please take notice