Where have all the good Witch Doctors, Town Criers and Yentas gone?
For centuries and in various parts of the world, there was a way of getting reliable news from the venerated Witch Doctor, Town Crier or Yenta.
An educated guess would be things went well until good ol’ Benjamin Franklin invented the printing press and the press would beget television which would beget political commentaries which would beget political pundits which would beget liars and batshit crazy sociopaths all whom have failed us villagers big time.
Through the slow process of evolution, the press as we once knew it is being replaced with the Blogosphere. In my opinion, the Wikileak papers have been a vital culminating benchmark.
The irrelevancy of the media has been documented for a few years and if one would ask in an earnest and sober state of mind for whom the church bells toll, the answer would be in the aura of a Greek chorus, “They toll for thee, dear American press, they toll for thee!”
As always,
BB
An educated guess would be things went well until good ol’ Benjamin Franklin invented the printing press and the press would beget television which would beget political commentaries which would beget political pundits which would beget liars and batshit crazy sociopaths all whom have failed us villagers big time.
Through the slow process of evolution, the press as we once knew it is being replaced with the Blogosphere. In my opinion, the Wikileak papers have been a vital culminating benchmark.
The irrelevancy of the media has been documented for a few years and if one would ask in an earnest and sober state of mind for whom the church bells toll, the answer would be in the aura of a Greek chorus, “They toll for thee, dear American press, they toll for thee!”
Wikileaks and the MSM's Credibility Crisis
by Neocynic Redux
Excerpt:
In fact, the record of outright professional malfeasance of our so-called professional journalists goes back further than merely an illegal war of aggression killing perhaps a million lives and wasting easily a trillion of America’s middle class dollars. The profession of American journalism allowed itself to become corrupted by the hysteria of 911. Swept up by instinctual patriotism, and the political cowardice it incurs, it surrendered its independence, and lost its nerve to dare speak truth to power. The sycophantic performance of the Bush White Press Corps, the apparent elite of the profession, as eviscerated by the comic Stephen Colbert at its 2006 function, was symptomatic of the mass media at large. Indeed, the paralysis continues with the irrational refusal of the mainstream media to address significant scientific anomalies arising from the events of the day on 9/11.
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/5/925731/-Wikileaks-and-the-MSMs-Credibility-Crisis
As always,
BB
posted by BB at 12:48 PM
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