Miguel de Geronimo commented on Fox’s John Roberts Covers Up Trump’s Blacklist Of Media
2017-02-25 11:47:10 -0500
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LBJ led the press corps around like a dictator that Trump isn’t. (..isn’t smart enough to be.)
The Washington press corps consists of career climbers that regurgitate what the White House says, and make shit tons of money.
The news heros are off in places like NewsHounds, Greg Palast, Michael Kirk, well, the list is long, and news criticism is at the heart of an important segment of actually delivering truth to power news.
The indignation of accusations of being “fake news” by and of the right to the left, is essentially true. Punditry, propaganda, and fallacy spin occupy much of what you see on CNN to Fox. (Think fairness doctrine long gone.) Add that critical thinking/reason/logic/scientific method is not at the heart of much of national TV news.
Mass propaganda has been a subject of study formally since high school. I am about the only Radio/TV B.A. with a long list of psychology credits, including social psychology. (Idaho’s broadcast side was badass – Ron Powers gurus, public broadcasting hard news powerhouses, now gone. Do not confuse with 1980’s Palin school of communications. She graduated in "mass communications, not “journalism”. Idaho’s print journalism side back in the ’70’s was really good, but politics eventually milktoasted the whole thing. Another story, and a Larry Craig sidebar.)
Ultimately, acute application of critical thinking takes apart Fox. It is based on fallacy propaganda to a great degree, but as (also) a former educator, know how small a percentage of this population masters and applies reason instead of nonstop fallacy. This isn’t just about what people say, but how they think.
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Idaho produced Sarah Palin and Dirk Kempthorne. It also produced FRONTLINE Michael Kirk, and was lucky to have Joyce Campbell and Art Hook as professors on the excellent broadcast side of things. Pre-NPR was fantastic. 24 hour stream of Associated Press and no ratings fluff b.s. Guess what? PBS and NPR are well-compromised, too.
El84
The Washington press corps consists of career climbers that regurgitate what the White House says, and make shit tons of money.
The news heros are off in places like NewsHounds, Greg Palast, Michael Kirk, well, the list is long, and news criticism is at the heart of an important segment of actually delivering truth to power news.
The indignation of accusations of being “fake news” by and of the right to the left, is essentially true. Punditry, propaganda, and fallacy spin occupy much of what you see on CNN to Fox. (Think fairness doctrine long gone.) Add that critical thinking/reason/logic/scientific method is not at the heart of much of national TV news.
Mass propaganda has been a subject of study formally since high school. I am about the only Radio/TV B.A. with a long list of psychology credits, including social psychology. (Idaho’s broadcast side was badass – Ron Powers gurus, public broadcasting hard news powerhouses, now gone. Do not confuse with 1980’s Palin school of communications. She graduated in "mass communications, not “journalism”. Idaho’s print journalism side back in the ’70’s was really good, but politics eventually milktoasted the whole thing. Another story, and a Larry Craig sidebar.)
Ultimately, acute application of critical thinking takes apart Fox. It is based on fallacy propaganda to a great degree, but as (also) a former educator, know how small a percentage of this population masters and applies reason instead of nonstop fallacy. This isn’t just about what people say, but how they think.
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Idaho produced Sarah Palin and Dirk Kempthorne. It also produced FRONTLINE Michael Kirk, and was lucky to have Joyce Campbell and Art Hook as professors on the excellent broadcast side of things. Pre-NPR was fantastic. 24 hour stream of Associated Press and no ratings fluff b.s. Guess what? PBS and NPR are well-compromised, too.
El84