Memo to NBC: What the hell is wrong with you?
Roman Catholic Deacon Greg Kandra, writing at Patheos:
I’m tired. Truly. I’ve grown weary of trying to defend the indefensible and explain the inexplicable. For years, people have stomped their feet and pounded their fists and snorted “Liberal media bias!” and I’ve always tut-tutted and shooshed them and said, “No, no. Calm down. They meant well. It was just a misunderstanding. A mistake. These things happen.” I spent over 25 years working in the oft-reviled Mainstream Media and I saw up close and personal how the sausage was made. I knew the people who wielded the knives and wore the aprons, and could vouch (most of the time, anyway) for their good intentions.
But now?
Forget it. I’m done. You deserve what they’re saying about you. It’s earned. You have worked long and hard to merit the suspicion, acrimony, mistrust and revulsion that the media-buying public increasingly heaps upon you. You have successfully eroded any confidence, dispelled any trust, and driven your audience into the arms of the Internet and the blogosphere, where biases are affirmed and like-minded people can tell each other what they hold to be true, since nobody believes in objective reality any more.
OK, put aside for a moment the fact that this sideways slam of the blogosphere comes from… a blogger. This is sweet indeed. Of course, the same fire can be directed at CBS, ABC, and NPR, but the past few years seem to have seen NBC slipping faster and faster down a slope of amateurishness. It’s not that they’re less biased than those other new organizations, but they don’t seem as interested in - or competent at (maybe both) - executing it with any nuance or skill.
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It’s gotten to the point where you can’t believe them if they say it will be hot today.
[1] Posted by Katherine on 6-20-2012 at 06:49 AM · [top]
and could vouch (most of the time, anyway) for their good intentions
There is part of the problem right there: the economy, the culture, and the endless liberal lies, propped up by the seemingly perpetual “liberal get out of jail free card” called “good intentions” are no longer working.
Blow a trillion on stimulus that doesn’t work? Don’t blame us, we had “good intentions”.
Kids can’t read because public schools are social laboratories? Don’t blame us, we had “good intentions”.
African-American families destroyed by welfare policies? Don’t blame us, we had “good intentions”.
Military strength eroding due to social engineering? Don’t blame us, we had “good intentions”.
Mainstream media lied, fudged, made-up news to advance a liberal agenda? Don’t blame us, we had “good intentions”.
We’ve kicked the can of truth so far down the road we can’t see where we started from. The sins of delusion are coming home to present us with the consequences of those sins.
The power of lies on NBC [and elsewhere] to prop up the delusions is shrinking. And all the good intentions in the world won’t stop the days of reckoning. Just look to Greece, et al.
[2] Posted by Capt. Father Warren on 6-20-2012 at 07:59 AM · [top]
It’s like my mama always told me. “The road to hell is paved with ‘good intentions!” Just as true today as it was over fifty years ago!
[3] Posted by Fr. Chip, SF on 6-20-2012 at 08:49 AM · [top]
I ran for Congress in 1994. This isn’t a new phenomenon. You wouldn’t believe how words are twisted by these “journalists.” I believe nothing I read or hear from them anymore.
[4] Posted by Jeffersonian on 6-20-2012 at 08:49 AM · [top]
If you follow the links to Andrea Mitchell’s apology(?), reaction (?), whatever you want to call it - she merely said that they “didn’t get a chance to play the whole thing” - meaning they intentionally cut out the part where Romney was making a point, rather than looking like a total rube. She didn’t even bother to wipe the egg off her face, she just ignored it.
Amazing.
[5] Posted by GillianC on 6-20-2012 at 10:26 AM · [top]
We used to trust them when they said, “Good night Chet… Good night David”, but what were they really thinking? Maybe their biases didn’t show as much back then. The media was supposed to be the watchdog of Democracy, but the media was in need of a watchdog itself. Hey, the blogs are now the watchdog of the MSM! Andrea can’t be happy with that.
[6] Posted by Undergroundpewster on 6-20-2012 at 11:01 AM · [top]
They have pooped on their responsibility as defender of democracy via transparency.
Now it’s all about their leftist agendas - and if the news doesn’t fit, then make it fit by changing the evidence.
I haven’t watched TV news in 20 years because I don’t believe them.
[7] Posted by B. Hunter on 6-20-2012 at 11:24 AM · [top]
@Capt. Father Warren,
Help me out here, I’m getting old. Wasn’t there an aphorism that talked about some road that was paved “with good intentions,” or am I misremembering?
Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer
[8] Posted by Martial Artist on 6-21-2012 at 02:43 PM · [top]
@Jeffersonian,
You write
We Navy vets (or at least those of us in the Silent Service) had a saying that, I believe, accurately captures the current credibility of the MSM: “I don’t believe anything they say or write, nor half of what I see them do.”
Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer
[9] Posted by Martial Artist on 6-21-2012 at 02:48 PM · [top]
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