We Know That There Is No News

Guest Post by Robert Bronsdon (Hollywood Rob)

We all know that the news is no longer the news.  It has been this thing that it is now for a long time and while most readers have tumbled to the fact, there are still many who think that papers are for the dissemination of news…Newspapers.  It’s actually a real word in the dictionary and yet, it has descended into obscurity in the mad click storm of the internet and metrics.  These folks who work in Canada are experiencing the destruction of their livelihood from the inside.  I suspect that you can find exactly the same discussion from the writers on every paper in every city in the “free” world.

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We see it here as well.  It is self imposed of course.  Nobody is editing what goes up on this blog.  But people are dashing off a quick piece with poorly worded sentences and horrible misspellings and not even bothering to reread it before clicking the send button.  This is as it should be for a blog.  A blog is not a newspaper.  A blog is specifically for people to express their own thoughts.  Nobody is inclined to believe what they read on a blog because they know that it is predominately opinion.

Not news.  But a newspaper is supposed to be the thing that informs the electorate.  You can’t have democracy without an informed electorate.  You can’t have an informed electorate without writers of news stories who have integrity.  You can’t have a democracy if the newspapers are chasing clicks.  It makes them change their stories.  I actually liked it when Ian said that he would quit if the paper asked him to write a sponsored story.

One last point.  These folks believe that they are producing non-fiction.  I don’t believe that there is anything printed that is non-fiction.  It is all fiction, and in particular it is fiction if it is crafted to chase clicks whether it is in a real paper or on a web site.

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anarchyst
anarchyst

The mainstream media has always been dishonest. From the “yellow journalism” of the late 1800s and early 1900s to today’s “fake news”, journalism has shown its true (communist) roots.
From the lies about the Spanish-American war to the New York Times’ walter duranty hiding the truth about and denying the artificially engineered and forced communist “famine” in the Ukraine, to the lies about the 1968 Viet Nam communist Tet offensive (a military victory for the South Vietnamese and American troops) reported by walter cronkite as a military defeat, cronkite and his ilk were successful in prolonging the Viet Nam war for years, giving “aid and comfort” to the enemy, who bragged about being supported by the U S media.
Look at NBCs doctoring of GMC truck gas tanks, rigging them to explode, and the deliberate
mischaracterization of George Zimmerman’s conversation withe the 911 dispatcher, deleting a key phrase, as well as showing Trayvon Martin as a 12-year-old rather than his more recent “thug” facebook picture.
The media has become a “fifth column” of the government and is not to be trusted. The CIA has had its hooks in the media since the 1950s. In fact, Hollywood script writers were paid to insert anti-drug messages in their scripts during the “drug hysteria” period of the 1980s through 2000s. Today, we have “crisis actors” embedded in our government and media, the same “crisis actors” who keep showing up, being used in every (fake) “crisis”. The mainstream media keeps parroting these impostors, thinking that we are stupid, not being able to see through their lies and deceptions.
To our advantage, we now have the internet, which gives the ordinary citizen the ability to see through the deceptions and lies, and the capability of being real “journalists”, quite often getting and reporting the story TRUTHFULLY before the mainstream media.
In fact, there are calls by “mainstream media” to “license” journalists, in an attempt to keep these “citizen journalists” out…twenty years ago, any journalist suggesting such a scheme would have been thrown out, but nowadays…

Anonymous
Anonymous

Nowadays what? You dirty bird! I was eagerly reading your tired screed that you keep reposting with minor changes. Why not set it to music?

anarchyst
anarchyst

You must be a “reporter” or someone involved with the mainstream media. Don’t like it, don’t read it. Looks like I “touched a nerve”. GOOD!

kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2
kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2

Hollywood Rob.
“I don’t believe that there is anything printed that is non-fiction.”

Methinks you are stretching the rubber band too far.

Hollywood Rob

Perhaps, but my argument revolves around the thing that you all have been complaining about. Around the thing that these people are complaining about. It is simply this. The News is simply that which a small group of important people says that it is. Is “Clinton winning 99% guaranteed” a fiction? Is the commentary on the latest school shooting not a fiction? How can you look at what passes for news today as anything other than a fiction.

As explained in the video, most of the news that you consume is written to get clicks to make money on ads. It isn’t news. It is fiction. It might be a docudrama, a story based on a true story but at the heart of the written word is by the very definition of writing, a fiction. I don’t see how you can see it any other way but I am interested in how you see it.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

News agencies like CNN are actually creating the news, not reporting news. The Florida shooting is a good example, because people at CNN are behind the anti-gun student rallies that were supposed to be a grassroots student movement but is anything but.

overthecliff
overthecliff

kokoda, you do well to be skeptical. However I think some news outlets publish truth 80% of the time so that their lies have credibility 20% of the time. If it matters, they are lying.

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i forget
i forget

Well, the info•cataract upon which informed over-relies is repetitive, rhymingly, numbingly – lots of redundant Edgar Allan poetry. Nevermore new under ol’ sol.

So being informed has more to do with thinking than with the ‘newest, latest’ info.

Lost in currency decouples the purchase, sleight o’ hands traction, putting one in traction, stainless steel screws & plates, & balls in yer inflation-adjusted sockets. Hip-hip-hooray replacement. Same as the old emplacement.

Despite a perhaps slightly different airbrushed camo coat. Or imperial robe. Haute couture. Swishing hips-hips on the runways, hooray. The latest fashions in old clothes. The walk-in closets bulge. ♪ I just hafta’ look good, I don’t hafta’ to be clear. Cuz lookin’ good is what passes, mostly, for clarity.

& where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Or a Hollywood dry ice contraption. Or maybe just cataracts in the beholden eyes. Or booze-bleared Wm Holden eyes. But not the kind newest\latest man•ufactured plastic lenses remedies, ‘Kay?

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