The mainstream media's biggest mistakes during the 2010s
The mainstream media is a laughing stock, filled with propagandists rather than real journalists doing cutting edge investigative work that holds all sides to the same standard. So as we close the decade of the 2010s, what stories were some of the biggest media failures?
-Obamacare
-UVA Jackie's rape hoax
-Coverup of Obama scandals
-Lies regarding Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown shootings (e.g. "hands up! don't shoot!")
-Brexit
-Trump's 2016 election
-Trump presidency will bring economic disaster
-Mueller Report and Russia collusion
-Charlottesville lie about Trump praising Neo-Nazis
-False rape accusations against Kavanaugh
-Covington Catholic
-Jussie Smollett
-Steele Dossier and Carter Page FISA warrant
-The ahistorical 1619 project by the NY Times
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The Kavanaugh trials was a witch hunt of the highest order. None of the assertions made could be corroborated in any convincing manner.
Imagine going in front of the country to tell them about what you claim is the most traumatic thing to ever happen to you, and not even knowing the year it happened. That was some amazing shit.
Are we including Fox as part of the MSM? Let's be honest here, the propaganda swings both ways.
Fox does not pretend to be objective like CNN and other networks. In 2016 Fox dropped the “Fair and Balanced” slogan and has been calling themselves a conservative network ever since.
Let's be honest a little bit further. Fox News doesn't even reach a fraction of the other media outlets, Fox News is perceived and understood as a very pro-republican outlet, they rarely engage in metapolitical discourse - besides from Tucker Carlson - nor do the they pretend to be this objective news media in search of a higher truth. Contrast that to the other outlets. They are perceived as objective, adhering to journalistic ethics and, at most, described as: somewhat left leaning. You are comparing apples and pears.
There is no longer a dialectic to the discourse in MSM, the thesis is never met by what is considered an orthodox antithesis, and therefore, no synthesis is reached. That is why the US has gone from legalizing same-sex marriage in 2015(!) to discussing why "mispronouncing" someone's gender/pronouns is violence or that children regardless of age should be able to have sex reassignment surgery in 2019.
But the word news is in the fucking name.
They need to go wwe and call it fox news entertainment at least.
Everything in society is sold out gilded scam trash. Once you lay back and accept it you'll stop being a fan that roots for one team or the other while the owners make billions, the players make millions, and the spectators pay for the privilege to talk about them at the water cooler/social media.
wonder if project 1619 touches upon white slavery and the suffering of all the irish people etc brought across to USA. did a quick browse and it talks a lot about re-education...but guess this stuff wont be on the agenda.
btw your list would be x2 in size if you didnt just group it all under Obama's scandals
OP replies to himself under anon for validation
The 1619 Project is full of many historical inaccuracies. Its purpose is not tell objective historical fact or bring to light new information. By it's own admission, it's objective is to reframe the entirety of American history around white-black race relations, from the perspective of black people.
That may be good for a political narrative, but it is not objective history.
While there may be inaccuracies in the 1619 Project, how can you say history can be seen through one lens? History from a white person's eyes surely will differ from a black persons who will differ from an asian person.
There are many inaccuracies in history as it has been branded and re-written to what is taught today. I mean for christ sake, high schooler's don't even know that the root of the Civil War was slavery, not states' rights. History itself has almost become subjective to this point, which is good for no one.
It's very easy to point a finger to the "main stream media". The lower quality of public discourse and politicians is simply the projection of our own quality as a society.
"Every nation gets the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre
This is what I always come back to. If we wanted Firing Line (look it up kids) then that’s what we’d have. Cable news gives me vertigo.
is it bad I'm only aware of 3 of those naturally (obamacare, brexit, 2016 election) and one more from dave chappelle (juicy sommolier)?
maybe you need some hobbies dude, how many of those impacted your life? or do you just want a list to slam your liberal family members over the holidays
Yes and no.
The good, you don't lose your mind over fundamentally dishonest people. The bad, these dishonest people might get into power, then you might regret your ''how many of those impacted your life?''.
I agree and disagree.
Agree because you're correct.
Disagree because what will you do to change it? For thousands of years those in power are or become corrupted and enact change based on the premise of their own good. Frankly I think the only change that can be made is donating to whichever lobby group you're behind and hope that gifted Merc S Class and beach house do the trick of swaying the politician towards your own view. I will be the first to admit that I'm jaded.
As an American, I have a vested interest in seeing an objective high-quality media. This is something that we should all want, regardless of partisanship or political ideology. Just because something does not impact me directly, does not mean that I should not care about it. That's a weak argument.
Too late - Festivus was on Monday so you have to save all your conservative victimhood-complex grievances til next year.
What were the feats of strength this time around, "cultural Marxism"?
seriously though - who gives a shit? Life’s too short to get worked up about meaningless crap from Fox/CNN/MSNBC. Focus on what really matters!
getting POUNDED IN THE ASS, amirite?
that’s DISGUSTING and GAY
Legacy media is is partly a CIA psyop and also filled with dumbass boomers who can't see that the internet is putting their asses out of business. They are losing their monopoly on information and they are pissed about it.
Could someone summarize the obamacare media dailure for me? I was a little to young at the time to remember how it was shown in the news
Nothing really from the Left to the Right they are all profit making organisations.
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the media does, which is entirely unsurprising, given the soapbox you seem determined to stand on.
The media doesn't have to be "right". That isn't the point. They are there to tell stories as they happen (or as close to that as possible). So, for example, when you list "Obamacare" as a "failure"... what exactly do you mean? The Affordable Care Act exists. From that standpoint, reporting on it is a fixture, not a bug, regardless of how you feel about it. I get the feeling you don't think it's good policy, which is your prerogative... but that means that even neutral reporting on it will come across as "biased" to you.
Or the Mueller Report. What did you object to? The fact that most news outlets refused to parrot whatever Mr Trump claimed? Most reporting I saw came to the same conclusion - the Mueller Report did not exonerate Mr Trump and led to the conviction of several people associated with him. What have you been watching/reading?
Or Charlottesville. I heard what Mr Trump said regarding Neo-Nazi's, that they were comparable in their ethical positions with the people protesting them. That is pretty explicitly an endorsement of white nationalism, bigotry, and prejudice. What exactly did the "mainstream media" get wrong?
Long story short, if you position yourself a couple of standard deviations to the right or the left of the middle, most of what you read or hear will seem biased.
Read the Charlotesville press conference transcript. Trump explicitly denounced Neo-Nazis and white supremacists and said that his comments don't apply to them. The media, in its desperate attempt to portray Trump as a white supremacist, lied about Charlottesville.
This is such a laughably poor attempt to excuse Mr Trump's comments that I'm almost inclined to let is pass, and let others judge it on its own merits, or rather the lack thereof.
Mr Trump does not identify who the white nationalists are. Or who the neo-Nazi's are. Which means he's giving cover to every person in that mob to claim they were a great person, and everyone else a "bad hombre," to borrow a phrase. He merely says those people are bad, and many other people in that part of the crowd are fine people. Bullshit. When you stand next to a Nazi in solidarity, you are representing the same hateful views, lending your voice to the same cause. A woman died, was murdered, because of bunch of fascists got worked up into a frothy rage. Even a slight attempt to justify that, or to cast blame on both sides, is wrong. It is no different than saying that many of the camp guards at Auschwitz were very fine people, and many of the Jews that they extirpated were bad people. It's more than possible that they killed some murderers and pedophiles and other horrible people fully by accident, and it's also true that maybe one of those executioners gave generously to charity. But that doesn't matter, because as a group the guards represented the forces of bigotry and prejudice and violence and genocide, and the Jews (and gypsies and political prisoners, etc) represented the victims of that kind of meaningless hatred. One of those deserves unstinting and rancorous condemnation, and one deserves pity. In Charlottesville, one group was there to protect the "legacy" of a traitor and a slave-owner, and they did so in active and open alliance with Nazi's and white nationalists, even if they as individuals might not have self-identified as such.
President Trump is not a private citizen, and his words should be measured with the understanding that they will be taken as representative of the country as a whole, by both contemporaries and posterity. In that light, his comments are inexcusable and should absolutely be interpreted as a defense of the white nationalists who so vehemently support him. Mind you, his governing, both before and after, lends credence to the idea that he's out to help the people who voted for him and punish those who didn't, which tracks with who he defended in this instance. If he was the father of one of people protesting with the Nazi's, he could be forgiven for claiming his son/daughter was a decent person. As President, he has no business defending Nazi sympathizers, especially not Nazi sympathizers who just murdered someone. He cannot be parsing words in this situation, and the fact that he did was accurately seen by both the media and the country as cover for the motives of a murderer. The fact that many people who don't follow the "mainstream media" condemned Trump for his words merely backs this up.
FOX NEWS is the only unbiased media source, especially TUCKER CARLSON.
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Its an embarrassing list of bad reporting mistakes but I think the UVA Jackie story stands out because there was no urgency. The reporter was pulled in by a hoax, spent months investigating it, and still reported the hoax as fact. Hard to imagine incompetence worse than that.
So all of this and no mention of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Wikileaks or Jeffrey Epstein? Looks like you are in the MSM sunken place, right where the CIA wants you. Good job getting upset about nothing substantive.
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