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| Kurt Schlichter: There Is No Hope for the Regime Media | |
| 2023-03-24 | |
[Townhall] We keep hearing that a vibrant news media is essential to a vibrant democracy, but we are not a democracy, and the regime media is trash. It is as useful as a thong on Chris Christie and as helpful to our society as a herpes chancre on your upper lip on a first date.
The new book by Steve Krakauer, “Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People,” which I liked enough to get in both audio and ebook, disagrees. His argument is important, and you need to understand it to understand the reality of the situation. Krakauer likes the media, or rather the idea of the media as he thinks it should be. Whether it ever was, that is open to debate, but it ultimately does not matter. The regime media is unsalvageable. Krakauer worked at various media outlets, including a pre-insane CNN, and now works with Megyn Kelly on her podcast (she was, of course, famously canceled over nonsense). He believes that the media needs to go back to its allegedly objective roots, albeit after making allowances for Twitter and other changes that disrupt the financial models and create incentives for journalists to forgo actual journalism in favor of personal branding. And I believe in unicorns – hey, there’s Chet now! It is interesting how many of the media folks that Krakauer talks to (all but one named and on the record) who you will know as being liberal – because they are –bemoan the current cancel climate, mostly mildly. They claim to be troubled by how objectivity has been abandoned and how the post-adolescent lunatics on the staffs of these famed institutions are terrifying the leadership and bending the alleged adults in the room to their woke will. Remember Tom Cotton and his pretty anodyne NYT column about using the military to crush the scumbag 2020 rioters? I thought his position was substantively flawed, but that was not why it sparked a Schiffstorm. Substantive criticism does not matter – the woke staff rebelled because it claimed Cotton’s article was “endangering” them. A sitting senator, explaining a view that a huge number of people now, and throughout history, have held, was beyond the pale and could not be countenanced. The management actually caved instead of firing every one of these jerks (a recent trans coverage revolt at the Times was gently suppressed, but gentle is not going to get it done). Read the rest at the link | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 The media during the Civil War is interesting to read. Objectivity has never been part of our media. I do like his similes. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-03-24 12:30 |
| #3 Let the regime media die, and laugh as it does. Faster, please. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-03-24 11:29 |
| #2 When you unshackled the 'media' from libel and allowed advertising to be a tax write off, you got the crap that we have now. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-03-24 08:10 |
| #1 The media has never been "objective." There's always an agenda, from the unwritten rule of "never step on an advertiser's toes" to the well understood operating principle that you can't alienate the people at the courthouse or police station if you want to cover the news. Now, the agenda is "the current thing," AKA trans, Ukraine, punish the innocent to protect the guilty. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-03-24 06:53 |