{"id":61252,"date":"2016-12-06T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61252"},"modified":"2024-07-02T07:25:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:25:25","slug":"mprs-on-the-media-fake-analysis-of-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61252","title":{"rendered":"NPR’s “On The Media”: Fake Analysis Of “Fake News”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a few things in the American media for which I have more contempt\u00a0than the WNYC \u00a0program “On The Media”. I’ve written about it in the past<\/a> \u2013 it’s an NPR show, hosted by Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone, that seems to be based around the premise the journalist is\u00a0a noble order of high priest of information, having a salonic conversation about the rarefied heights of American journalism.<\/p>\n

In point of fact, it’s a Democrat party propaganda mill, no different than “Occupy\u00a0Democrats” or any of the left’s other “fake news” mills.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors exhibit A? This past weekend’s broadcast<\/a>, which focused on “not normalizing Trump”.<\/p>\n

And as a Tfump non-supporter and someone who was taught journalism by old-school practitioners who actually valued telling the story, rather than achieving a political goal,, I get it.<\/p>\n

Of course, when OTM talks about “not normalizing” someone like Donald Trump, not a word will be mentioned about the media having normalized bald-faced support for Hillary Clinton, at a level that we have once been considered a\u00a0crime against journalism.<\/p>\n

Bonus visit bit of nausea induction: as a guest, Bob Garfield interviewed George Lakoff, a\u00a0noted linguist who pointed out the techniques that Trump has mastered in turning \u00a0peoples opinions on their heads, and the need to not normalize that sort of thing\u2026<\/p>\n

Of course, Garfield\u00a0didn’t mention that Lakoff\u00a0has been working, and as I recall been paid for quite some time now, to try to do exactly what the program complains about Trump doing; trying \u00a0to turn language to the service of Democrats.<\/p>\n

Apparently they didn’t think we needed to know that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a few things in the American media for which I have more contempt\u00a0than the WNYC \u00a0program “On The Media”. I’ve written about it in the past \u2013 it’s an NPR show, hosted by Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone, that seems to be based around the premise the journalist is\u00a0a noble order of high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295,294,4,130,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorites-media","category-favorites-politics","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-narrative-for-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82643,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61252\/revisions\/82643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}