Sanders Nailed It On Identity Politics & Inequality & the MSM missed the point

One of the best articles of the year, I’d say.

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The MSM won’t let it go because to do that would mean actually becoming the fourth estate of Murrow, Severeid, Reasoner, Cronkite, and lastly Moyers.

They frankly LOVE the model where they’ve totally sold out and simply get to plagiarize dying newspapers while they ESPN the news with “panels” talking about the news…

The one thing they have MORE of is the indignance that anyone would question their impartiality or their ability to function as the fourth estate when the examples of their full capitulation…not mere acquiescence, but complete moral, ethical, financial and journalistic surrender are legion.

It goes beyond belligerent denial like one would see in an addict. Even an addict in denial recognizes at some level that there is an end…somewhere. The denial is generally of the nature of “I can fix all of this before I get to that bad end” rather than that the end, itself, is bad.

No…no. The MSM truly is psychotic in that it believes something that is so far from reality that the only way to describe it is a collective psychosis: they believe that they are actually fulfilling the role of the fourth estate; speaking truth to power, holding power accountable and bringing more real information than ever to the people with greater transparency than ever.

That this belief is so wrong for so many reasons isn’t really the issue. I mean, it is wrong for a great many reasons.

But the problem is that the MSM truly believes that they are the functioning legacy of Murrow… They don’t see that rather than speak out against a Senator McCarthy, this media would have put him in the White House with a Congress to help him fulfill his legislative agenda because it was good for ratings. They don’t see their role in this age of Americans being the least informed since Mass Media became available.

I mean, when viewers who watch various news channels are actually LESS informed than people who watch NOTHING… what else need be said?

Mackeyser wrote:

They frankly LOVE the model where they’ve totally sold out and simply get to plagiarize dying newspapers while they ESPN the news with “panels” talking about the news…

This makes the news unwatchable. No one is a bigger offender of this than CNN. They gotta have 4, 6, 8 people on a panel screaming over each other. It is the most useless thing on television. They set up these WWF matches and run with them. It has nothing to do with informing anyone of anything.

Sure–it’s cheap to do things that way but it’s also useless.

You may as well watch pro wrestling. They have better characters.

Unless this changes–I don’t see how the country ever gets sane again. They have a vital job to do.

And they aren’t.