Paul Joseph Watson: Dear Mainstream Media

[ChristianAnarchist]

So when Ron was polling 2nd in 2008 and they had everyone else pics and names for pie charts but not his,

that was just because of liberal reporters ?

sorry but I gotta call bull$#@!

Ya, +rep... It's amazing how short people's memory are. It's a rigged game all right. TPTB have had the psychology figured out for many years on how to manipulate the masses. 99% of the people didn't even see that they'd left Ron off that graphic and many others. They just follow their programming...

[AZJoe]

Notes on why the archaic MSM being supplanted by alternative media:

Do you wonder why the legacy media are such puzzled otherworldly twits? ...

Some thoughts from a guy who spent a career in the racket:

Ask journalists when they were last in a truck stop on an Interstate, last in Boone, North Carolina or Barstow, California or any of thousands of such towns across the country. Ask whether they were in the military, whether they have ever talked to a cop or an ambulance crewman or a fireman. Ask whether they have a Mexican friend, when they last ate in a restaurant where a majority of the customers were black. Whether they know an enlisted man, or anyone in the armed services. Whether they have hitchhiked overnight, baited a hook, hunted, or fired a rifle. Whether they have ever worked washing dishes, harvesting crops, driving a delivery truck. Whether they have a blue-collar friend. Know what the Texas Two-Step is, have been in a biker bar. ...

Next, ask how many went to fancy schools like Oberlin, Swarthmore, Amherst, the Ivies, Bard. Ask how many even know someone who graduated from a land-grant school. Ask whether they know an engineer.

Now look at how much they write about each other for each other. Look at the endless coverage of what Maddow said about what Hannity thought about O’Reilly’s harassment of soft-porn star Megyn and how much she might make at CNN. Ask how much time they spend comparing ratings. They are fascinated by themselves.

Ask them how many have ever worried about paying the electric bill, had to choose between a new winter coat or paying the cable, or known anyone who did.

They don’t know America, and they don’t much like it. ...

Virtually the entire press corps is of one mind and slants the news to the point of verticality. ... Most don’t know they are doing it. It’s just that they are so obviously…right. They are not reporters. They are advocates.

It is more than having the same politics. They have no conception of such romantic notions as freedom of expression or the interplay of ideas. ...

In a curious process of self-delusion, they imagine a world that doesn’t exist and then try to live in it. ... They dismiss anyone who tells them that things are not as they think. Their confidence is invincible ...

television is the medium of the illiterate and barely literate. (People who can’t or don’t read all have televisions.) It lacks the staff to have specialized reporters, has to avoid offending anyone so as to keep the advertisers happy, has very little time to spend on a story which it has to keep at a sixth-grade level to avoid losing much of its audience. It has to be politically correct so as to impose appropriate values. It can’t upset big corporations because that’s who owns it.

Newspapers can assume perhaps a tenth-grade and better readership, but they too must be PC, worry about the advertisers, and they too lack staff. ...

That’s why the mainstream media are largely vapid and predictable. It is why the internet, not bound by political correctness or controlled by corporations, able to specialize, to serve intelligent readers, is now primary.

[juleswin]

New York Times and Real Clear Politics refuse to update electoral totals.

Real Clear Politics still shows Trump with only 164 electoral votes: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epo...llege_map.html

So I decided to investigate the first claim and it turns out that the link you posted is the pre election prediction and not the final vote. You have to go to the 2016 Elections - Live Results to see the map with Trump winning.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ele...ident/map.html

So its not that they did not want to update the results. I mean if they updated their predictions, I am sure someone would have come and rightfully accused them of manipulating their predictions after the fact.

[AngryCanadian]

Notes on why the archaic MSM being supplanted by alternative media:

Do you wonder why the legacy media are such puzzled otherworldly twits? ...

Some thoughts from a guy who spent a career in the racket:

Ask journalists when they were last in a truck stop on an Interstate, last in Boone, North Carolina or Barstow, California or any of thousands of such towns across the country. Ask whether they were in the military, whether they have ever talked to a cop or an ambulance crewman or a fireman. Ask whether they have a Mexican friend, when they last ate in a restaurant where a majority of the customers were black. Whether they know an enlisted man, or anyone in the armed services. Whether they have hitchhiked overnight, baited a hook, hunted, or fired a rifle. Whether they have ever worked washing dishes, harvesting crops, driving a delivery truck. Whether they have a blue-collar friend. Know what the Texas Two-Step is, have been in a biker bar. ...

Next, ask how many went to fancy schools like Oberlin, Swarthmore, Amherst, the Ivies, Bard. Ask how many even know someone who graduated from a land-grant school. Ask whether they know an engineer.

Now look at how much they write about each other for each other. Look at the endless coverage of what Maddow said about what Hannity thought about O’Reilly’s harassment of soft-porn star Megyn and how much she might make at CNN. Ask how much time they spend comparing ratings. They are fascinated by themselves.

Ask them how many have ever worried about paying the electric bill, had to choose between a new winter coat or paying the cable, or known anyone who did.

They don’t know America, and they don’t much like it. ...

Virtually the entire press corps is of one mind and slants the news to the point of verticality. ... Most don’t know they are doing it. It’s just that they are so obviously…right. They are not reporters. They are advocates.

It is more than having the same politics. They have no conception of such romantic notions as freedom of expression or the interplay of ideas. ...

In a curious process of self-delusion, they imagine a world that doesn’t exist and then try to live in it. ... They dismiss anyone who tells them that things are not as they think. Their confidence is invincible ...

television is the medium of the illiterate and barely literate. (People who can’t or don’t read all have televisions.) It lacks the staff to have specialized reporters, has to avoid offending anyone so as to keep the advertisers happy, has very little time to spend on a story which it has to keep at a sixth-grade level to avoid losing much of its audience. It has to be politically correct so as to impose appropriate values. It can’t upset big corporations because that’s who owns it.

Newspapers can assume perhaps a tenth-grade and better readership, but they too must be PC, worry about the advertisers, and they too lack staff. ...

That’s why the mainstream media are largely vapid and predictable. It is why the internet, not bound by political correctness or controlled by corporations, able to specialize, to serve intelligent readers, is now primary.

This is true. In General MSM doesn't care about the issues we care about. They only pretend to care.

[AZJoe]