Into a Mating Net with the Fourth Estate
American Greatness,
by
Patrick Maines
Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx,
3/26/2019 12:30:37 PM
In chess, when one player is put by the other in a “mating net,” the game effectively is over. The player in the net has the right to “push the wood” until the inevitable end, and sometimes when the end is some moves away, the doomed player may actually do so. But he has lost the game, whether he sees it at the time or not.This is precisely what has happened to the Fourth Estate. Though such legacy publications as the New York Times and the Washington Post have favored Democrats and liberal policies for decades, it wasn’t until the
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 3/26/2019 12:42:01 PM (No. 13526)
Should be a Must Read.
This is one of the better commentaries that I have seen on the Enemedia in some time. Worth your time to read it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
javaboy 3/26/2019 12:55:30 PM (No. 13527)
In a just world, the MSM would be disgraced, lose viewers, and have to make changes.
We do not live in such a world.
My prediction(s) are that the MSM will scream "Obstruction" for awhile while completely ignoring the fact that they were soooo completely wrong on the "collusion" narrative. When the "Obstruction" narrative falls apart, they will completely ignore their failure there as well. They will try to find new shiny things to keep their "orange man bad" narrative going and hope that the average viewer (who probably grew up watching MTV) will have the attention span of a goldfish. And (to some degree anyway), it will probably work.
They may have lost the chess game when it comes to facts, but I don´t think they will lose enough of their audience to hurt them enough to reform.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
javaboy 3/26/2019 1:03:47 PM (No. 13528)
Oh yeah. I almost forgot. If the right actually tries to hold certain members of the attempted coup accountable for their actions, there will be screaming from the left about being persecuted, racism, sexism, and every other ism they can scream to keep certain people on the streets and out of jail.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HotRod 3/26/2019 1:04:23 PM (No. 13531)
As I said previously: Unless there is a very public purging of pundits, news anchors, other talking heads, editors, and journalists from the MSM and cable ´´news´´ organizations, nothing will change. It will only signal acceptance of the malfeasance, lies, and misinformation.
Americans understand freedom of speech, which this wasn´t! It wasn´t even yelling ´´Fire!´´ in a crowded theater. It was far, far worse than anything we have seen as a nation.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Faldo 3/26/2019 1:26:54 PM (No. 13530)
Not impressed--regurgitates the obvious but then drops this non-starter...
"It might seem to some that it is a stretch to hold last rites for Fourth Estate journalism based just on the performance of a few key players. And in truth there are some outfits that still practice a decent kind of journalism, with USA Today and the Wall Street Journal coming to mind."
Those two rags are NOT going to save journalism.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Faldo 3/26/2019 1:35:17 PM (No. 13529)
Maines should be an expert on the Fourth Estate...!
Patrick D Maines has been President of The Media Institute in Arlington, Va., since 1984.
The Media Institute is a Washington-based media think tank supported by major media companies, including two new additions, Verizon and DirecTV, and one returning sponsor, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association,". Other corporate backers include Viacom, Time Warner, NBC Universal, Rupert Murdoch´s News Corp., Tribune and Gannett.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/26/2019 1:46:16 PM (No. 13525)
"the abandonment by the leading legacy media of honest and objective journalism"
As the article says, they have instead become "vile propagandists". Should we mourn? What is, is. They did it to themselves.
The question is, do we need the media as was previously constituted? Their job was simply to spread information. That was originally through print. Then through radio, then television. The constraints on those forms of communication was that we had to wait for the communication to reach out to us, not all had access, and there was no form of feedback.
Now there are internet news sources that are instantaneous. Anyone that wants it has access. And we can comment.
Another benefit is that information is difficult to filter or block. Just because the propaganda media doesn´t want a story to get out or want to spin it a certain way, they no longer can. Imagine the Covington story if it had only been reported by propaganda media. Even when the truth of what happened was known, they would never have reported it. Imagine the picture of Trump seen only through propaganda media. No wonder their usership that only utilizes only them for information is hysterical. They are being brainwashed by their news sources.
Sure there are and will be some challenges to massive numbers of sources. Information overload. Who can you trust syndrome. But we can work that out. It´s worth the effort to be well and openly informed.
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