PeachyKeane
M.I.A.
Cynical? Yes, stupid? Not really. The mainstream media itself is dying out, quite literally. Liberals like to laugh about old people watching FOX, but MSNBC and CNN's age bracket are, at best, a decade younger. The problem isn't even that the media has people who lie, it is that they double down or do it so brazenly.
When I was young, Connie Chung got fired for lying to Gingrich's elder mother and telling her that the camera was off before recording something the old lady did not want to publicize. Even my parents, who were life-long Democrats, thought what she did was underhanded. Dan Rather got kicked to the curb for accepting false documents about Dubya.
These days, they wouldn't be fired, they'd be promoted. The old, legacy media has become a propaganda arm for whatever group their ideals align with. The story the big six media outlets is basically the story of Charles Foster Kane.
Uh-huh. You recognize that that whole diatribe was mere rhetoric, most of which was made up of non-sequitors (who said anything about the age of FOX viewers)? I'm betting you like your news the same way. Heavy on rhetoric light on substantiated facts?
I'm not going to defend MSNBC or CNN, but they are hardly a fraction of the entirety of "the media".
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