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When All The Media Narratives Collapse
« on: November 14, 2021, 09:14:43 PM »
When All The Media Narratives Collapse

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/when-all-the-media-narratives-collapse-650

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The news is a perilous business. It’s perilous because the first draft of history is almost always somewhat wrong, and needs a second draft, and a third, and so on, over time, until the historian can investigate with more perspective and calm. The job of journalists is to do as best they can, day by day, and respond swiftly when they screw up, correct the record, and move forward. I’ve learned this the hard way, not least in the combination of credulousness and trauma I harbored in the wake of 9/11.

But when the sources of news keep getting things wrong, and all the errors lie in the exact same direction, and they are reluctant to acknowledge error, we have a problem. If you look back at the last few years, the record of errors, small and large, about major stories, is hard to deny. It’s as if the more Donald Trump accused the MSM of being “fake news” the more assiduously they tried to prove him right.

And these mass deceptions have consequences. We are seeing this now in the Rittenhouse case — a gruesome story of a reckless teen with a rifle in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. The impression many got from much of the media was that a far-right vigilante, in the middle of race riots, had gone looking for trouble far from home and injured one man, and killed two, in a shooting spree.
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... I understand news gathering is fallible. But there’s a media pattern here. And it reaches far wider than Rittenhouse.
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... But Trump was right, in the end, about the dodgy dossier; he was right about the duped FBI’s original overreach; and the mass media — Rachel Maddow chief among them — were wrong. And yet the dossier dominated the headlines for three years, and the “corrections” have a fraction of the audience of the errors. Maddow gets promoted. And the man who first published it, Ben Smith, was made the media columnist for the NYT.

Think of the other narratives the MSM pushed in recent years that have collapsed. They viciously defamed the Covington boys. They authoritatively told us that bounties had been placed on US soldiers in Afghanistan by Putin — and Trump’s denials only made them more certain. They told us that the lab-leak theory of Covid was a conspiracy theory with no evidence behind it at all. (The NYT actually had the story of the leak theory, by Donald McNeil, killed it, and then fired McNeil, their best Covid reporter, after some schoolgirls complained he wasn’t woke.) Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

The MSM took the ludicrous story of Jussie Smollett seriously because it fit their nutty “white supremacy” narrative. They told us that a woman was brutally gang-raped at UVA (invented), that the Pulse mass shooting was driven by homophobia (untrue) and that the Atlanta spa shooter was motivated by anti-Asian bias (no known evidence for that at all). For good measure, they followed up with story after story about white supremacists targeting Asian-Americans, in a new wave of “hate,” even as the assaults were disproportionately by African Americans and the mentally ill.

As Greenwald noted, the NYT “published an emotionally gut-wrenching but complete fiction that never had any evidence — that Officer Sicknick’s skull was savagely bashed in with a fire extinguisher by a pro-Trump mob until he died.” The media told us that an alleged transgender exposure in the Wi Spa in Los Angeles was an anti-trans hoax (also untrue). They told us that the emails recovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian disinformation. They did this just before an election and used that claim to stymie the story on social media. But they were not Russian disinformation. ...
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

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Re: When All The Media Narratives Collapse
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2021, 09:16:22 PM »
Andrew Sullivan: The media keeps getting things wrong and all the errors are in the same direction

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/11/13/andrew-sullivan-the-media-keeps-getting-things-wrong-and-all-the-errors-are-in-the-same-direction-n428970

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There are other examples of this, significant ones, that Sullivan doesn’t mention. Remember last year when Andrew Cuomo was made the hero of the pandemic by an adoring media (especially CNN which had him do interviews with his own brother)? It turns out he wasn’t a hero and one dumb decision involving nursing homes probably led to hundreds of additional deaths, deaths that he then tried to cover up.

How about the handling of the Kavanaugh confirmation? A judge was publicly accused of gang-rape by a dodgy witness brought forward by Michael Avenatti, another CNN-created hero of the resistance who turned out to be a criminal who allegedly stole money from his own clients.

And we’re not even going back to the media’s abysmal coverage of the Michael Brown case or the Trayvon Martin case or the Tucson shooting, all of which had major national implications. We’re also skipping over dozens of media freakouts over things that are quickly shown not to be true. This happens so often that it’s impossible to remember them all even if you wrote about them at the time.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: When All The Media Narratives Collapse
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2021, 03:27:33 AM »
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Re: When All The Media Narratives Collapse
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2021, 06:32:28 AM »
Rational people capable of critical thinking can read Sullivan's columns and understand his POV and even agree with it. The examples he cites are many and varied with a central theme that runs throughout -- the propaganda machine that serves the left, while somewhat reduced of late (ratings are a lot lower than they were, especially for PMSNBC), still cranks out its crap and dishes it out to its fawning audience.

Sullivan, et. al., stand back in awe and watch the clown show and report on it.

But the sheeple continue to lap it up, smelly turd after smelly turd.

Not a very hopeful sign.
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