7 thoughts on “Training Journalists To Lie”

1. Bad link?

2. He (Musk) may be “shutting down the censors at twitter”, but the vicious counter attack against him has already begun:

   “Use of N-word on Twitter jumped by almost 500% after Elon Musk’s takeover as trolls test limits on free speech, report says”

   https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-sparked-n-word-use-jump-2022-10

   In other words if Musk doesn’t un-shutdown the censors at Twitter he is a racist by association by “enabling” their (the posters) racism. And of course the fact that he is of South African persuasion (apartheid) will no doubt come up quickly if he doesn’t rescind.

   1. High likelihood that Democrat bot farms fired up that campaign just to create the story.

3. “Today, a politically unpopular article or personality can leave a publisher besieged from the outside while facing a revolt from within.”

   It is more because of this than using partisanship to farm money. A point of evidence is that when revenues go down, journalists don’t stray from their activist mission. Bezos doesn’t care about the financials of WaPo. He cares about influence. The same is true for most publishers. They will hemorrhage money as long as it means they win elections.

   The pressure campaigns are to keep them in line. We have seen this with how Democrat’s street pogrom against non-Democrats is covered and how fellow Democrats and their militants intimidate Democrat journalists from reporting the truth. They apply social media pressure, try to get people fired, and make literal threats of violence on the street.

   I recently audited an online journalism 101 course to see what they were teaching. According to the teachers, most of the things journalists do these days are unethical and associated with dictatorships but they also taught journalism from the pov that journalists should be activists.

   1. but they also taught journalism from the pov that journalists should be activists.

      Truth? Facts?

      1. The official line was to be honest about your bias and be honest with facts but to also craft compelling narratives using story telling. Would it surprise you that like all leftwing endeavors, it was full of contradictions?

         For example, be honest but understand that some news is more fit to print than other news and it is the role of journalists to choose what they think is most important for the community to know. It sounds fine on a superficial level.

         1. It sounds fine on a superficial level.
            If I recall my classical ethics teachings correctly, suppression of the truth is the equivalent to telling a lie.

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