Monday, September 3, 2018
RE NYT LIBERACE HAPPY LABOR DAY BAHN HYPOCRISY
When you point out that media calling out government and presidents has never done anything much to improve anything, and in fact has always been a complete and total failure here, what has been their answer?
They have generally then backpedaled on their role of changing and improving and factifying and edifying society, and denied that that is the role of the media, have claimed that that is a role of other institutions in society which have dropped the ball, and have blamed other institutions or the American people themselves (Kitty Genovese Fallacy) for their failures.
They have seldom or never pointed at structural features of our government.
What has generally been their answer?
Terms search: Lorch, The Creation of the Media
It has usually been either cheap sensationalism, or corrupt, bought off, partisanship.
Here is the journalist wearing, for the moment, the market capitalist cheap sensationalist's hat, retort:
Here is the journalist wearing, for the moment, the market capitalist cheap sensationalist's hat, retort:
(Lorch) Newspaper Editor's retort to assembled Scholars:
"Don't you know what the newspaper business is all about, you bloody fool...For the past ten minutes you've been trying to make me out as some kind of hideous ogre devoid of any shred of social consciousness.
"You act as though you think the job of a newspaper is to be an educational institution for the masses.
"Education is your job, not mine.
"I run a business. That business is to make money. My stock in trade is something called 'news'. It isn't really news all the time-- it's entertainment in the guise of news quite often.... I am not going to print educational stuff that'll put me in the poor house."
With their other hat on, the one the NYT always wears, they are the only repository of truth, a bulwark against fraud, falsehood, and cheap sensationalism, in a fallen world.
"Don't you know what the newspaper business is all about, you bloody fool...For the past ten minutes you've been trying to make me out as some kind of hideous ogre devoid of any shred of social consciousness.
"You act as though you think the job of a newspaper is to be an educational institution for the masses.
"Education is your job, not mine.
"I run a business. That business is to make money. My stock in trade is something called 'news'. It isn't really news all the time-- it's entertainment in the guise of news quite often.... I am not going to print educational stuff that'll put me in the poor house."
With their other hat on, the one the NYT always wears, they are the only repository of truth, a bulwark against fraud, falsehood, and cheap sensationalism, in a fallen world.
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