I want you to read this quote from an article written by James Bennet, once Op-Ed editor for the NYT, who now writes an opinion column for The Economist. Bennet’s an Elite; older brother Michael is a Senator (D-CO), father was a State Department official in a few Democrat administrations, head of NPR and president of Wesleyan, maternal grandfather a Polish Jew who dealt in African art (!); and James Bennet did two stints at the NYT, sandwiched around his editing The Atlantic.
So as you can tell, he’s a spook and controlled op who’s playing his role the Elites have given him — but he still manages to tell a couple truths, though they’re presented in the article like an afterthought:
… since most digital publications financed by venture capital turned out to be bad businesses. The advertising that was supposed to fund them flowed instead to the giant social-media companies. The HuffPosts and Buzzfeeds began to decay, and the Times’s subscriptions and staff began to grow.
My oh my, does any of that sound familiar?
The NYT re-hired Bennet in 2016 as the Op-Ed editor, then supposedly shoved him out in 2020 for publishing a Tom Cotton Op-Ed just after the St. George Floyd “death,” and Bennet’s just now accusing the Times of pushing old-timers like him out in favor of unqualified youth, to which James laments in his Economist article “When the New York Times Lost Its Way.” (Yeah, it only started in 2020, James — sure sure.)
More truth from Bennet:
Perception is one thing, and actual independence another. Readers could cancel their subscriptions if the Times challenged their worldview by reporting the truth without regard to politics.
He’s totally right, you know: if the Times reported the actual news without being filtered by so-called politics, they would be independent. But they’re not, as you and I both know. And since all politics are controlled by our government, who does that leave to control the public’s perceptions?
Now, to show you how an Elitist like dear James views it, along with his romanticized ideal of “Journalism:”
In my experience, reporters overwhelmingly support Democratic policies and candidates. (Emphasis mine.) They are generally also motivated by a desire for a more just world. Neither of those tendencies are new. But there has been a sea change over the past ten years in how journalists think about pursuing justice. The reporters’ creed used to have its foundation in liberalism, in the classic philosophical sense. The exercise of a reporter’s curiosity and empathy, given scope by the constitutional protections of free speech, would equip readers with the best information to form their own judgments. The best ideas and arguments would win out. The journalist’s role was to be a sworn witness; the readers’ role was to be judge and jury. In its idealised form, journalism was lonely, prickly, unpopular work, because it was only through unrelenting scepticism and questioning that society could advance. If everyone the reporter knew thought X, the reporter’s role was to ask: why X?
(“Why X?” is a question many of us want to ask Elon Musk.) Anyway, this is a very valuable look inside the head of a “Democratic” Elitist, isn’t it? “They are generally also motivated by a desire for a more just world.” GTFO with that, pal. These people don’t care about a just world, or there’d be justice for all — including creeps like James fucking Bennet.
I’ll leave you with this last tidbit:
Departments across the Times newsroom had also begun appointing their own “columnists”, without stipulating any rules that might distinguish them…
Ah — so much the better for running a narrative, if all the voices are in harmony, huh?
Well isn’t that news.
We haven’t had independent journalism really since the early 60’s. Media is owned lock, stock and barrel by the Zionist joos and they even admit that ONLY joos are allowed to pen propaganda pieces (which is most of the tripe offered up to the public). The only thing that has changed in ten years is the fact that far more proles know it’s a joo free for all and quite honestly they no longer believe these varmints like Bennet and the rest of the liars at the NYT, The Atlantic, etc.
News has always been slanted, BL. Always. Before and during the War Between the States the newspapers were slanted towards the North if they were Northern and the South if they were Southern.
Mary, that is true but until the late fifties and early sixties there were actually a number of investigative journalists digging up the dirt and raking the muck. Then just like that, one day you turned on the news and it was the exact same echo chamber from one channel to another or from one radio station to another. I’m sure you have seen the youtube videos where they compile maybe 30 different TV channels all mouthing the same newsfeed.
Hearst began the practice or perfected the practice of creating news stories which evolved into the BS we have today, 100% fake and gay non-news. You are correct that the banksters stirred war news to suit their purpose which was to finance both sides in war which also continues to today. Don’t get me started on the pure propaganda that has always gone on.
EDIT: I would like to add that there is a lot of muck raking and journalism uncovering sleeze and deception on alternative internet but the proles don’t see these sites. Establishment media is pure horseshit.
late fifties and early sixties there were actually a number of investigative journalists digging up the dirt and raking the muck.
OMG are you serious?
USA media was pravda…with coupons, throughout the 20th century.
Look Birdsong, are you at least 70 or 80 y/o? If not, you have no experience from 60 or 65 years ago to form your opinion, I was there.
Independent journalism has always been rare, at least for my lifetime, but it didn’t become nonexistent in the mainstream until the Clinton era when a few owners managed to corner the market completely. Independence returned in a scattered fashion with the advent of the internet, but even there it’s being stamped out by Google and the mainstream media with the collusion of the intelligence agencies.
Anyway, that’s how it looks to me. I’m old and opinionated so mine is likely a minority view, if not unique.
No, you’re right, Ed — independent journalism has been and always will be the rarest form, because truth-tellers can’t find platforms (much less burning ones) to publish their findings.
Clinton may have consolidated the media moguls, but honestly, once the Communist takeover of our government began in the early ’60’s, it’s been a non-stop assault of lies and damned lies, amplified and abetted by the implicit news media. Where at one time there may have been perhaps 1% truth in these people, that’s down to around .0001% now, and they’re working on it: that’s just too high for them.
Nobody who’s getting promoted by the Big Boys — I’m looking at you, Tucker, Alex, Rogan and Elon — gets that unless they’re one of the Families or a Zionist shill. Everything on TV, radio and so-called social media is controlled, scripted and edited; they all have fleets of makeup artists, wardrobe assistants and image consultants; and they’ve gone to the best schools, have had years of training on how to look, act and feel, learned how to speak concisely, cranked out to have no personal opinions.
Like Bennet said, “The exercise of a reporter’s curiosity and empathy, given scope by the constitutional protections of free speech, would equip readers with the best information to form their own judgments.” That’s not how it works nowadays; the talking heads are only giving one side of the story, and that’s what they read off the Teleprompter. Getting us the best information is not in their best interests, for obvious reasons. We only get what they’re lying about to cover other lies.
Yep. Before the monopolization, there were still a few local newspapers around here (southern Virginia) that presented an angle that diverged from the lockstep of the “mainstream”, but those are all gone now. There was a radio station in Farmville, Va that played what was called Americana, which was country, folk and rock music from artists whose work wasn’t promoted by the small hat Nashville mafia. It went away, bought out by MSM affiliates of one of the big 3.
There’s just nothing available now that isn’t just alike. You said it exactly right. We only get what they’re lying about to cover other lies.
There is a huge bubble from the District of Corruption up to Bean Town where the elite hang out and discuss the same things in their own little circles. Because all they hear supports their own beliefs, they think they are right and the people support them.
It’s a huge bubble and I ain’t in it, thank God.