A Look Back at the Demise of the Mainstream News Media in 2018

Rachel Alexander | Dec 31, 2018

One prevalent theme of 2018 was the further deterioration of the mainstream news media. The meltdown began in late 2016, after President Trump won the election. The media went into full assault mode, bashing Trump and churning out fake news at a breathtaking speed. They could not handle this new type of Republican president who aggressively went about a conservative agenda and frequently attacked the press.

But Trump fought back, taking to Twitter to speak directly to the American people. He got his message out first, before the media could report on it. The media was forced to report afterwards on his tweets, which were difficult to spin when embedded in an article word for word. Journalists in media were so blinded by their hatred of Trump that they could not see the constant negativity was backfiring..................

But while the big tech giants may have stemmed the tide a bit, they are running up against a tidal wave. While lefty journalists depend solely on their writing jobs to make a living, conservatives are much more business minded. They can work a full time job in business while contributing articles on the side to a news publication. As the layoffs of journalists continue, part-time conservative journalists are stepping in to fill the void.............To Read More....

Newspapers Are Doomed

By Rich Kozlovich

On May 16, 2018 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.  posted the article, "Why We Don’t Read Newspapers", talking about how newspaper editors fudge reality to appease offended audiences.  In his commentary he makes the point that the world of the left has changed - at least the world of the left that was in the open.  He goes on to say:

"Things were different in America. Liberals were different then. For one thing Liberals were Liberal. Now of course they are Progressives, and feminists, and, forget not, some are socialists. Who knows, maybe some are Marxist-Leninist socialists."

In reality the things they acted on in the open were different, but they were exactly what they are now, insidiously hiding who and what they were in order to slowly work what was harmful to society.   

But the real reason we don't read newspapers any longer is because the Internet has exposed them as liars, propagandists, ideologues and subversives bordering on treason - and it's not electronically texted to them. 

First, newspapers have to appeal to an audience that's largely illiterate.  Those between 18 and 50.

When was the last time you were at a social event and the conversation turned to the latest best seller? Does anyone know what the latest best seller is?  When was the last time you saw a blockbuster movie based on a best seller?  These people don't read books.

The audience they have to appeal to is largely ignorant. 

Ask them who is the Vice President of the United Sates and I'm willing to bet over fifty percent won't know.  Ask them what the line of succession is if the President dies in office.  Most have no clue, and I will guarantee you not one in ten thousand will know who the President Pro Tempore of the Senate is, or for that matter what he does, and where he is in the line of succession.

Let me help.  Orrin Hatch and not much other than getting paid more, and he's third after the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. How scary is that having Paul Ryan and Orrin Hatch second and third in the line of succession?

Their knowledge of history is so stunningly abysmal it's to the point of idiocy.  Give these people an I.Q. test based solely on history and the vast majority would be considered morons.  But I'm willing to bet their teachers wouldn't do much better.

For some reason they can't seem to function for five minutes without constant texting.  What's worse, these young people are stunningly arrogant in their ignorance.  And to make an already bad situation worse - they don't care. 

Now the price of newspapers is now out of hand, which means fewer are buying them at newsstands and outdoor boxes, if there are any left.  Their subscription base is made up of old people who will be passing off the scene.  In Cleveland, I don't see what used to be ubiquitous newspaper trucks out on the road any longer, and that's because few have it delivered to their homes any longer. 

Newspapers as we know them are doomed, get over it, move on.  As for those who really are interested in the news, the truth, history and real solutions - they're finding that from bloggers - so why bother getting a newspaper? 

 

A Great Flood of Information

By Dexter Wright

In the wake of the 2016 election, there have been efforts at soul searching by politicians on both left and right. But neither side has been able to focus on the fact that the river of history is at a flood stage and is washing away the banks on both the left and right sides of the river. This has gone unnoticed for the most part, but as with most things in life, it is easy to see if you just change your perspective, and an historical perspective is what is called for here.

In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press by pouring molten lead into molds to form the individual letters which could be moved and reused to print pages and pages of information on a scale never before seen. Prior to this invention, books were hand scribed, illuminated, illustrated and sewn into a binding which, when finished, was more of a work of art than a volume of reference material. The advent of cheaper and more plentiful books resulted in the widespread availability of information and the Age of Enlightenment began.

This new availability of information, in the form of printed books, resulted in a flood of cultural revolutions with high water marks such as the Reformation in religion, the Copernican Revolution in science and ultimately, in the political arena, the American Revolution.........The Democrats, and probably many Republicans too, have failed to see the raging floodwaters of information lapping on the doorstep of every household as any sort of significant force. But the World Wide Web is changing the course of history. Each household can now observe, without filtration, what politicians are “doing on their behalf.” These flood waters of unfiltered information are washing out the stagnated swamp, and as with the Biblical Flood, a new beginning has been ushered in.........Read more