CBS chief foreign affairs correspondent confirms that journalism has been replaced by propoganda




On Monday, former chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News Lara Logan dropped a bombshell on the media: she told retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland that the media are wildly biased to the political Left. “This interview is professional suicide for me,” she stated, after agreeing with Ritland that most major media are “absurdly left-leaning.”

She stated: "The media everywhere is mostly liberal, not just in the U.S. But in this country, 85% of journalists are registered Democrats – that’s just a fact. No one is registering Democrat when they’re really a Republican. So, the facts are on the side that you just stated: most journalists are Left, or liberal, or Democrat, or whatever word you wanna give it. How do you know you’re being lied to? How do you know you’re being manipulated? How do you know there’s something not right with the coverage? When they simplify it all and there’s no gray. There’s no gray. It’s all one way. Well, life isn’t like that. If it doesn’t match real life, it’s probably not — there’s something wrong.

Compare Logan’s accurate take on the media with the words of opinion writer Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post and MSNBC, who described the media’s wild malfeasance on the Jussie Smollett story this way:

Just the circumstances and the way he told the story, and what he said happened to him sort of fit in with a narra -- not a narrative, but a reality for a lot of people in this country since President Trump was inaugurated, that there is an atmosphere of menace and an atmosphere of hate around the country that made it possible for people to either readily believe or want to believe Jussie Smollett.

Capehart’s Freudian slip is actually rather important. He was correct that many in the media granted credibility to Smollett’s hoax because it fit a narrative. But then he corrected himself to state that it wasn’t a narrative at all – it was a “reality for a lot of people in this country.”

Now, this slip is fascinating because it reveals the unfortunate truth about many media members on the political Left: they mistake their narrative for truth. Opinion becomes fact. Those who disagree with a given “fact” – fact which is actually opinion – are then labeled ignorant, or foolish, or malevolent.


Is this an innocent mistake, a matter of mere confirmation bias to which we are all prone? Or is something deeper going on?

Since the 1960s, the radical Left has claimed that most human interactions are governed by power dynamics. Critical theory suggests, for example, that free markets aren’t actually voluntaristic arrangements of individuals engaging in mutually beneficial trade – they’re a reflection of hierarchical arrangements created by the rich. Thus, critical theorists suggest that a regulated market controlled by “the people” – progressives – would properly rejigger economic relationships. Similarly, critical theory suggests that free speech isn’t actually free – it’s a system set up by those who have powerful distribution mechanisms for their speech at the expense of others. Thus, critical theorists suggest, along the lines of Herbert Marcuse, that certain opinions must be silenced in order to even the playing field – “repressive tolerance” must be applied.

If you believe in such critical theory, you aren’t likely to be shy about the application of your own political power to these supposedly hierarchical systems. After all, if you believe that systems of speech and economics are constructed by the powerful, then you should use every means at your disposal to act against them. If you can blame some nefarious right-wing forces using hidden mechanisms of power for all the systems you don’t like, then you can use institutional power to tear away at those systems.

Thus, media bias becomes not an evil, or even an error to be mitigated, but an affirmative good. Objectivity, in the critical theory framework, is an illusion used by certain powers against other powers; thus, the illusion of objectivity can and should be used by more legitimate powers on behalf of certain political interests.

Most members of the media surely don’t think like this; most members of the media probably fall prey to confirmation bias rather than ideological self-justification. But the continued insistence by members of our media that they are not prone to such confirmation bias, when they so obviously are, suggests that at a certain point, confirmation bias shades over into affirmative enjoyment of Leftist power politics. And that is truly dangerous, because politically-motivated players using the façade of objectivity to press forward an agenda aren’t journalists at all.

They’re simply liars.

Humans dont exist without bias. When opinion is allowed into media, of course there will be bias. As mentioned before, a strong education that teaches the differences between fact and opinion is the simple antidote.


speaking of, where did this person get their information about media and how they are registered? was there a poll or a study and what audience did it choose to participate?

I'm sure if I spent enough time looking for it..I could find a couple of things that supposedly *prove* grapes are orange in color..

Meaning, one can find anything to "prove" their point if they spend all their time looking for stuff like that...

Ironic? The pot calling the kettle black? This story posted by a guy that posts a story about the founder of Planned Parenthood from 4 yrs ago in an attempt to shame Planned Parenthood? Someone who claims all liberals are Racist and baby killers? Well it seems a little strange that Martain Luther King Jr was given and accepted an award from Planned Parenthood in the name of the Margret Sanger. There is more to most stories than what is reported, but how far do you take it? Bias in media has been going on for thousands of years. Our Society, Religion, and Politics have all been created thru propaganda. Look at religion as a pyramid scheme, join our group, fallow our beliefs, spread our word, and we will forgive your sins and promise you eternal happiness. Billions of people fall for and it becomes a way of life. Don't pretend this news of news being set up to swing people a certain way is a new thing, or that you are not just as guilt of trying to promote your views on others.

When a grape tells you that it is purple or green, you should listen because grapes don't talk much.

And they would know it better than the orange.

Or you could be an ostrich, who has their head in the sand

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There doesn't have to be long posts and quotes unlimited. All you have to do is turn on the TV. Listen for one day to FOX news and get the facts. Listen to CNN for one day and hear Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper and more spew filth and lies. Oh right, I guess people of a certain sexual persuasion don't tell lies. NOT ! I get the majority of MY news from the British Guardian and Aljazeera. They are more on point that our US media.

BUILD THAT WALL
*I have the right to remain silent, but I do not have the ability.

Listening to Leftist news media will keep your head in the sand.

from the British GUARDIAN:

For all the anticipation that had built up around the Vietnam summit, it has ended up falling down the news agenda today in the wake of the escalating tension and skirmishes between India and Pakistan and the publication of the incendiary testimony Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, is due to give to a House committee later today- accusing Trump of being conman, a racist and a cheat

Still, in Hanoi at least, the summit remains the main attraction:

Dems just can't stand the fact that our President is trying his best to bring peace to the world.

BUILD THAT WALL
*I have the right to remain silent, but i do not have the ability.

Just like republicans couldn't stand the fact that Obama was trying to stop a depression. I guess it's all about perception and the ability to both give credit for the good and hold accountability for whats not good.

For some reason I get a little hung up on the 'told a retired Navy seal' part.
It seems that this is supposed to give it more credence.
As opposed to 'told a tramp clutching a cheap bottle of liquor'

Obama was bringing on a depression in the US. We needed a Change! Media rarely tells the Truth , You have to research for yourself. Find out where the Truth finders Really post.

I'm sure the loony leftist media,
still has 10s of viewers.