Why the News Is Not the Truth | Harvard Business Review

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[–]risistill me 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Harvard and other universities hiring people like Rice, Yoo, Goolsbee and other alt neolibercons to teach the elite youth of this nation and other nations is one reason that the news is not the truth.

Changes in antitrust laws and regulations that allow concentration of most establishment media in the hands of a few conglomerates is another. https://old.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/15hauhh/mainstream_journalists_are_cloistered_ivy/jupcf93/

[–]BerryBoy1969It's not red vs. blue - It's capital vs. you 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Almost 30 years later, the song remains the same. You'd think at some point people might start asking each other who keeps setting their hair on fire.

[–]SmockSignalsDeft-Wing Rationalist[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not the same it's like 100x worse now. Holy crap.

[–]3andfro 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

OP: When you post links, excerpts help spark interest--

The U.S. press, like the U.S. government, is a corrupt and troubled institution. Corrupt not so much in the sense that it accepts bribes but in a systemic sense. It fails to do what it claims to do, what it should do, and what society expects it to do.

The news media and the government are entwined in a vicious circle of mutual manipulation, mythmaking, and self-interest. Journalists need crises to dramatize news, and government officials need to appear to be responding to crises. Too often, the crises are not really crises but joint fabrications. The two institutions have become so ensnared in a symbiotic web of lies that the news media are unable to tell the public what is true and the government is unable to govern effectively. That is the thesis advanced by Paul H. Weaver, a former political scientist (at Harvard University), journalist (at Fortune magazine), and corporate communications executive (at Ford Motor Company), in his provocative analysis entitled News and the Culture of Lying: How Journalism Really Works.

Journalists and politicians have become ensnared in a symbiotic web of lies that misleads the public. [bold in original]

[–]SmockSignalsDeft-Wing Rationalist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

-- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

[–]3andfro 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Rather a shame that those who recall Lee Marvin remember him as the subject of the first palimony suit.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I didn't know about the palimony suit :-)

I first saw Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965), one of my absolute favorites. Lee Marvin won Best Actor.

[–]3andfro 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

An award that's deserved, unlike many in these times, e.g., https://saidit.net/s/WayOfTheBern/comments/bd1n/no_joke_ursula_von_der_leyens_eu_commission_just/

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    [–]CaelianPost No Toasties 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    "He did it! He missed the barn!" :-)

    [–]3andfro 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yes!