The Media Industry

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  1. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

  2. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    Those of you who have never worked in journalism might restore your equilibrium a tad by reading h.l. Mencken or a biography of him. He spent his life in the trade and was one of the tops for decades. His attacks on FDR were lacerating and his insights on the press dead on.

    I was exposed to him as a teen back in the 60s and found him useful in the five years I worked defending media in defamation suits

    My final conclusion: when the really good reporters try real hard they sometimes get it right. The rest of the time it is blind hog country
     
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  3. Monahorns

    Monahorns 10,000+ Posts

    Mencken is a boss.
     
  4. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

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  5. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

     
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  6. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    The first reply from someone named Roger Hartford is priceless.
     
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  7. Facing Addiction

    Facing Addiction 1,000+ Posts

    The headline: Republicans Signal Cuts To Social Security, Medicare With New House Majority (msn.com)

    But from the article:

    Republicans don’t plan to alter benefits for current Social Security and Medicare recipients, according to Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas).

    “What we have been very clear about is, we’re not going to touch the benefits that are going to people relying on the benefits under Social Security and Medicare,” Roy said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “But we all have to be honest about sitting at the table and figuring out how we’re going to make those work, how we’re going to deal with defense spending and how we’re going to deal with nondefense discretionary spending.”

    Mislead much?????
     
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  8. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    Who needs foreign influence to mislead Americans. We have MSM.
    How many will only read the headline.
    Next will be grandma being shoved off the cliff
     
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  9. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    Yeah, well, the old biddy had it coming.
     
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  10. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    Paywalled for me:

     
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  11. HornHuskerDad

    HornHuskerDad 5,000+ Posts

    Several will only glance at the headline and move on. Unfortunately, those who read the story in its entirety will get the MSM slant - based on the MSM interpretation of the real facts (at least the facts they choose). The MSM will conveniently ignore the facts that don't match their desired slant.
     
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  12. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    You have to remember what a "cut" is. To normal people, it means spending less money on something than you did before. In Washington, D.C., it means spending less than the projected increase in spending.

    For example, if budget legislation projected to spend $1T on Social Security in '22, $1.2T in '23, and $1.4T in '24, but Congress intervenes and decides to only spend $1.35T in '24, they've "cut" Social Security, even though they're spending $50 billion more than they did the year before and $350 billion more than they did 3 years earlier.
     
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  13. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    There’s no math like US Govt math. Ugh
     
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  14. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Just wait until the kids who got "educated" with Common Core math start running these budget agencies. It'll be a **** show. Nobody will know how much we're spending on anything.
     
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  15. Monahorns

    Monahorns 10,000+ Posts

    Sounds like it will all crumble and blow away in the wind.
     
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  16. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    The inference there is that someone knows now. Not a chance.
     
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  17. theiioftx

    theiioftx Sponsor Deputy

    Do we know now?
     
  18. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Most people don't, but we can at least look at the data and get a pretty good idea. Most people just don't think to do that, and the media never gives it to them straight. However, when the CC idiots are in charge, they won't even know how to add things up well enough to create the data.
     
  19. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I try not to be a conspiracy theorist, but when you bring in this assclown as a disinformation expert, it's hard to take you seriously or think your intentions are good.

     
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  20. Monahorns

    Monahorns 10,000+ Posts

    Stelter is an expert because he has perfected the spewing of misinformation from his mouth.
     
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  21. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    The New York Times carrying water for China.

     
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  22. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    This logic applies to the taliban as well. Just saying.
     
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  23. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    True, but there's more money in whoring for China.
     
  24. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

  25. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Gotta love our media.

     
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  26. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    They will never admit the reality of the situation. The profiling that occurs is born from the repeated characteristics and personality of chronic criminals. When five black cops act in this manner, and the media is unable to accept the reality of the criminal element, then we see the real fraud that has occurred in our country. Not at the election booth, but instead in the deliberate distortion promulgated by the media.
     
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  27. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    I wonder how confused the media would be if Mr. Nichols had been a MAGA hat wearing type of guy.
     
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  28. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    ****, they'd find a way to say he had it coming to him.
     
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  29. Garmel

    Garmel 5,000+ Posts

    Like Ashli Babbitt.
     
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  30. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    Good Grief.
    Now it has come out that the black female Memphis Police Chief was fired from the Atlanta PD for ordering 2 officers to not investigate another officer's husband for child porn
    . It doesn't relate directly to this case. Just a strange twist. Who in Memphis vetted this chief?
     

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