Peter Menzies- Betrayal of newsroom fundamentals is creating a free flow of misinformation
“After 44 years with City News, Dornfeld has boiled down his advice on journalism to a single sentence:
“Chum, if your mother says she loves you, check on it.”
And all of them, even the few honest, unbiased ones, really do believe they’re morally and intellectually superior, but especially the latter.
Not only have journalists become highly partisan, so have the readers.
I feel sorry for old-time journalists who seek the unvarnished truth no matter who it favours or disfavours. At least partisan journalists can depend on a dedicated following to back them. The old timers will eventually piss off nearly everyone, including their fellow journalists.
Today, newspapers have followers even more partisan than Tito’s!
There are no “old-time journalists who seek the unvarnished truth” and never have been. That’s a myth created by journalists.
They’ve long been a varnishing breed…
In 90% of the cases, they already know the narrative they want to tell and they are just cherry-picking any source they can find to support it. “Sources”, “Experts”, “some would say”, etc. Or they will deceptively edit.
Defund the media in Canada, and stop placing useless ads with all of them.
The 5 Ws.
Who,What,Where,When and Why..
Have been replaced with Waa waa waa waa waa, from the
social influencers of Government Funded Media.
Know your enemy.
When the citizens rejected the media messaging and stopped buying their “product” the media had choices..
They could stop lying and attempt to regain the trust they threw away..
Or they could beg government for handouts,further compromising their so called integrity..
And when the pay master pays the gold,you print what you are told.
Modern verification consists of “Does this serve the sacred narrative?”
Or “Do I want to believe this”?
If these self important morons even think that far.
For more and more we see the substance of a “News” article contradict the headline..
Meaning the narrators don’t even read their own “product”.
It’s not necessary to falsify the news to distort it. All you need do is be selective about what you report on.
Its called not telling the whole truth. It would meet the threshold for “falsify” in a lot of books.
Most cities have Christian churches in the Mission district, and journalists in the Omission district…
“After the Ukrainian woman was murdered, the mayor issued a statement exclusively defending the homeless and mentally ill.
No mention of the killer’s 14 arrests and multiple felonies.
Our empathy keeps getting used to excuse evil.
And it’s literally killing us.”
https://x.com/thatsKAIZEN/status/1964819786707468689
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1964798655732556133
Here’s a list of all the news networks who have NOT covered the Charlotte NC story:
– NYTimes
– CNN
– Washington Post
– MSNBC
– NPR
– USA Today
– Reuters
– Axios
– ABC News
– PBS
Every single one of them wrote stories on Daniel Penny…
…do you get it yet?
https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1964641516519071969
Trump apparently didn’t hear about this until late in the day… some grumblings that he’ll address it tomorrow.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1964855430372618425