Shot in the Dark

And To Think Conservatives Believe Big Media Writes Stories About Conservative / Republican People And Events Long Beforehand, Because They’re All Writing To A Narrative

Jessica Kwong, progressive stenographer at former magazine “Newsweek”, on Donald Trump’s thanksgiving:

“it was written before knowing about the president’s surprise visit to Afghanistan-an honest mistake”

In other words, pre-written.

The Big Media aren’t “the enemy of the people”. They’re worse; after assuming the mantle of “guardian of democracy” (which, we are told, without their ministrations would “die in darkness”), they are doing something very, very different. They’re worse than an enemy; they are betraying a trust – however misbegotten.

They are swindling the people.

UPDATE: And apparently the once-mighty Newsweek can be shamed into decency; Kwong has been fired.

I’m sure she’ll be off the beach soon.

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21 responses to “And To Think Conservatives Believe Big Media Writes Stories About Conservative / Republican People And Events Long Beforehand, Because They’re All Writing To A Narrative”

  1. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    UPDATE: And apparently the once-mighty Newsweek can be shamed into decency

    Mitch, Mitch, Mitch, when will you ever learn? That wasn’t shame, that was controlling expenses. Jessica Kwong suddenly became too expensive for the failing Newsweek.

    I hear she has hired an agent who is negotiating a book deal.

  2. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    You know how it is. Pointing out the obvious — that so many of our elites are lying idiots — will get you called “anti-intellectual.”

  3. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    No word on the editor that approved the article. Just fire the millennial.

  4. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    She filed her story and then took off for her own four-day vacation, spent drowning puppies and researching teenage tweets from folks who suddenly and unexpectedly find themselves in the news.

  5. kinlaw Avatar
    kinlaw

    The level of hatred these people feel is just astonishing. I thought they hated Bush. This makes that look like puppy love.

  6. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Her profile is still up on Newsweak. Just sayin’. And yes, the editor needs to go as well for allowing an article about events that had yet to happen.

    Also read a bit of her Twitter feed; suffice it to say that she’s quite the piece of work, and that falls into old proverb for journalists “I don’t care if you’re sleeping with elephants, but don’t cover the circus if you do.” Another place where…ahem….NewsWeak needs to take a look at replacing some editors with guys who actually know the terrain.

  7. Prince of Darkness_666 Avatar
    Prince of Darkness_666

    Kinlaw, it is really something isnt it. TDS is making BDS look like sanity.

  8. Prince of Darkness_666 Avatar
    Prince of Darkness_666

    Also this whole story just gives Trump more ammo to push the fake news narrative. Well its not really a narrative anymore its just a fact at this point.

  9. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Do you get the feeling that if Kwong HAD known where Trump was going that she would have tweeted the details out in advance in case any Taliban were interested?

  10. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Or perhaps, NW, Trump already knew this tendency of hers, and decided not to give her tickets on Air Force One for precisely that reason.

  11. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    “You couldn’t have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances at [legacy media] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas.”

    15 years ago, and still true today.

  12. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Meanwhile, Nancy and the Squad are on their way to the global warming conference to deal with the greatest existential threat of our time. I hope that another existential threat doesn’t see this has an opportunity.

  13. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    Apparently, that editor whoever it might be has been punished in some way that supposedly involves a demotion. But who really knows?

  14. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    The editor had to give up her decoder ring and her preferred table at Starbucks.

  15. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Moderation? Little ol’ me?

  16. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    Ooh, interesting, NW…

  17. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    decoder?

  18. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    Starbucks?

  19. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    Dec@der it is – that test comment went into moderation. So, s@cialism and dec@der. Noted.

  20. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    D3c@d-er it is. A second comment went into moderation because of only an ‘@’.

  21. Prince of Darkness_666 Avatar
    Prince of Darkness_666

    The mod bot Mitch uses must be on crack or something. Or was probably written by someone at Google.

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