Death of the Pravda Media

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:  

At my age I've seen all the big names in journalism, and some like Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil were two of the good ones.  But that wasn't necessarily true of the rest, including Walter Cronkite, who was in reality a globalist, but Cronkite and the Matrix media were able to hide it back in those days.   

Here's a quote by Jim Lehrer worth reading.

People often ask me if there are guidelines in our practice of what I like to call MacNeil Lehrer journalism. Well, yes, there are, and here they are. Do nothing I cannot defend. Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me. Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.

Assume the viewer is as smart and caring and as good a person as I am. Assume the same about all people on whom I report. Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise. Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories and clearly label everything.

Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions. No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously. And, finally, I am not in the entertainment business." - Jim Lehrer

If that's supposed to be the standard for quality journalism, and I think it is, then it's clear what we've been seeing on the news and reading in the newspapers, is in point of fact, not journalism at all.  It's lies of commission, lies of omission, corruption and propaganda, all meant to deceive the public in order to promote leftism and the Democrat party. 

 

However, try as they might, neither side can fully explain the existence of left-wingers. For my part, I can far easier grasp the appeal of turnips and grits than I can the stranglehold that Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and Obama, have on leftists. I mean, how is it that anyone can look at the results of communism and socialism and not see them for the nightmares they are and always have been? After all, the evidence is in plain sight. - Burt Prelutsky

 

One well known leftist propagandist from the Pravda media outlet MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell. announced he's taking a week off" due to what he said was "exhaustion caused by President Donald Trump's administration."  Does that seem a little snowflakish to you?  It's actually understandable.  These leftist apologists have had to unendingly do remarkable mental gymnastics in order to make Biden, his administration, and the Democrat party look rational and sane, all the while claiming the normals who disagree with them are "weird".    But now they're dealing with a new sheriff in town — and he’s taking no prisoners.  He's striking back, and winning.  

 

Betrayal - "Trump has found them out. He has found their corruption, their greed, their fraud, their hatred, and their betrayal of the American people, and he's going to nail them to the wall."  Trump sued CBS for 

 

Trump sued CBS and they ended up paying $16 million to Trump for it's altered interview with Kamala Harris, in a deliberate attempt to defeat Trump in the election, and this was after "ABC News agreed to pay $16 million to the president to settle a defamation case against anchor George Stephanopoulos, who said the president was found “liable” for rape."

 

Monica Showalter posted this article, Mainstream media laments Trump's $16 million victory against CBS for its sleazy, deceptive editing, saying: 

“I deplore … the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity and the mendacious spirit of those who write for them… These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief… This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.” - Thomas Jefferson described the abuses of a free press in 1814 in a letter to his friend Walter Jones 

• Facts to ponder while most of the media peddles Democrat talking points to destroy Trump and Republicans and to elect Democrats 
• House Judiciary Report Reveals GARM and Foreign Regulators’ Collusion to Censor American Speech and Silence Trump

Nothing has changed, nor it will ever change regarding the lack of integrity in the legacy media! It has been so from their founding, and will continue to be so until the end of time.  But right now, today, because of modern communications, they have more easily, and more thoroughly, corrupted the nation's perception of reality with the stench of their lack of morality, and stunning level of hypocritical ignorance. 

Worse yet, they work diligently to prevent anyone from exposing their perfidy!  As an example, YouTube suspended  One America News Network channel for what they're calling misinformation violations for COVID-19 policy.  That's a convenient way of saying anything that disagrees with the leftist agenda, AKA, free speech, is misinformation and must be censored.    Yet they have little trouble promoting outright lies. Which bothers them not the least because those lies promote false leftist narratives. What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? Intent! But they are none the less two sides of the same coin.   

I've seen them called sewer trout, but that's an insult to trout and sewers, since both serve a useful purpose

With the alternative media,  watching everything the left and their media lackey's are saying, are confronting them by exposing their half truths and lies, which has resulted in they're viewership being washed down the drain.  Now that their mental gymnastics no longer works, they're left confused, frustrated, and suffering from some serious mental fatigue.  Other than denial, the only recourse for recovery available to them is to start telling the truth, and that's an arrow into their hearts.  Why?  Because then they would have to become conservatives.   

 

Just like Dan Rather, they'll go down the tubes screaming denial, as Dan Rather, the "fake but accurate" talking head used to intone, "Questions remain".  As for the Rather/Mapes fake documents scandal, here's what I originally published in 2012: We Need to Get This: The Media Lies....Constantly!  I posted this interview with Mary Mapes saying: 

"Ross asked Mapes , "if she believed the story was true. She stated “The story? Absolutely.” the interviewer found it incredible that she found “this story to be up to your standards”. (Editor's Note: This is an important point. RK ) Mapes stated "I’m perfectly willing to believe those documents are forgeries if there’s proof that I haven’t seen."' 

Does this take you aback? It should. Ross asked: “But isn’t it the other way around? Don’t you have to prove they’re authentic?" Mapes responded by saying that “they haven’t been proven false.”  Ross asked what most of us would consider obvious: “Have they proved to be authentic though? Isn’t that really what journalists do?” Now the quote of the year…….Mapes said; "No, I don’t think that’s the standard." Which is the real kicker.  Why?  Because what she was demanding is called proving a negative, and that can't be done.  You can only prove what is, not what isn't.  

In short, the narrative is far more important than the facts. Just like they say in Hollywood as they take great liberties with their "history" based movies:

 “If it didn’t happen that way, then that's the way it should have happened!”

But we know that Hollywood is a fiction factory.  Entertainment is their job, and fiction is part of that story telling job!   But we expect the news to be non-fiction. After all, isn't truth supposed to be "their" job?"   If truth isn't their job, then propaganda and lies must be their job, and we're now finding USAID has been funding those lies.  

Nothing has changed, except now they're under a microscope, and Dan Rather played a huge role in making that transition happen.  It's taken time, but that's Ole Dan's actual legacy, lies and corruption. 

The Pravda media promotes a new Holocaust.  When Hamas supporters went on a rampage in Switzerland, the Pravda media was taking a nap that day.  They cry over a pedophile losing citizenship.  They claimed there was no Iranian nuclear program, but in order to discredit Trump, now there is.

Rigging polls to promote their latest meme is now and has always been standard operating procedure for these Marxist myrmidons claiming Trump's BBB is unpopular.  They ignored the obvious health issues of Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton, but a bruise on Trump's right hand draws gasps of horror in hopes of launching a crusade against him.    

They irrationally turn terrorists into heroes and prosecutors into monsters, and as for the Texas flood?  DHS says the mainstream media deliberately lied in its coverage of that catastrophe.

But the information world is changing, the alternative media is ascendant, and society is "awakened" to their corruption, and people are taking action.   A notorious leftist censorship organization known as Media Matters is in deep trouble after years of its "scorched earth campaign against the conservative media", making blatantly false and injurious claims to destroy their advertising revenue.   Now, after a series of lawsuits they're on the verge of total collapse. 

Its been reported that even the Biden administration couldn’t believe, how dumb and gullible the Pravda media was, which is a bit unfair.  They "believed" because they wanted to believe. It was a unfathomable desire to believe the lies Biden, Obama, Hillary, Kamala, and all the rest were telling because those lies are who they are and what they believe is truth, no matter how much reality may impugn those beliefs. So, who is more stupid, the fools who are "believers" or the fools who know they're lying and promoting corruption that's destructive to society and the nation?   

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.  The Pravda media is corrupt to the core, and the rot is killing them.  What we're seeing is the death of the legacy media, and it's more than justified. 

Schadenfreude!

Updates: 

• Washington Post reeling from buyout exodus as bosses hope to turn the page at embattled paper ......"It's been a bloodbath on editorial,"..... (My Take - This was long overdue, here's my 

• Former CBS Anchor: Paramount Merger May Signal Network’s End - A former “CBS Evening News” anchor told CNN on Friday that the merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media may “end” journalism as she had known it.  (My Take - And she says this as if it's a bad thing? RK)