Our News Media is Full of Idiots
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Trump is again correct, a free press that spins propaganda instead of unbiased facts is a greater enemy of the people than any foreign adversary could ever be.
So he is shutting down Fox, the Examiner, and oh about two dozen other places?
What is an unbiased fact? If you tell a lie and I am reporting on it, do I just print what you said and hope the reader knows it is a lie? Do I point out it is a lie? Or if you lie every day, can I call you a no-good lying piece of shit? I mean, if you do lie every day, you are a liar and a piece of shit as far as I am concerned.
Calling a spade a spade is honesty.
Hunter S Thompson had a few great quotes on the bullshit of "objective journalism".
"If you consider the great journalists in history, you don’t see too many objective journalists on that list. H. L. Mencken was not objective. Mike Royko, who just died. I. F. Stone was not objective. Mark Twain was not objective. I don’t quite understand this worship of objectivity in journalism. Now, just flat-out lying is different from being subjective."
"So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here — not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms."
"Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful."
