The Headless Chickens in the Mainstream Media

Jack Shafer of Politico attempts to find the media's brain again.

Melissa Mackenzie January 16, 2017

 

Chickens, when beheaded, do not know that they’re dead. They run around, spurting blood and making a mess for a while in a fit of nervous expulsion. If the chicken isn’t beheaded quite right, the parts of the brain that sustain survival functions — respiration, movement, heartbeat, excretion — still exists. The chicken can live for quite a long time in this visionless, morbid state, but one wouldn’t exactly call that existence living.

So the media finds itself: half-brained, blind, but still flailing around. It’s not quite alive and certainly not useful, but it’s not dead either.

The irony is that these pressies blinded themselves and like the notorious headless chicken, Mike, needed to be dropper-fed by an Obama administration willing to keep them alive for their helpful novelty. Mike, the Mainstream Media, loved being a pet. Being blind and incapable of caring for itself, it trusted in the almighty state lead by Barack Obama. They didn’t even need to think to survive. They simply had to trust. And trust, they did.......To Read More.....