[–] BKAtheManScout 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
At what point do they lose their FEC status?
At what point is their "News Entertainment" going to come with an obligatory footer that appears every minute for 10 seconds, reading "This program is intended for ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY"?
The CIA Intelligence apparatus is so intertwined within the MSM, that I fear they may have to clean house/ cease all media "outreach" in the following sense: perhaps in the future the CIA could send media representatives -- clearly labeled as such when introduced as guests on a given show -- but the CIA should not also be providing the script flitting across the Teleprompter(s). This, which roughly represents the current situation, is dangerous in that today's MSM 'Journalists' with large platforms rarely even ask a followup question for a dodgy answer, let alone dig and uncover hidden stories like the Epstein saga. Either through limited airtime, but more likely through contractual obligation (largely tied to/funded by the "two" party system), current entertainment-'journalists' utterly fail at holding Power accountable. Doing that would step on the toes, in many cases, of the Organizations writing thier inflated checks. How they can sleep soundly at night, I will never understand. (........But then again I'm not a Sociopath who sees myself as some cog in a System I can't/will never change. Looking at you, Chuck Todd, Joe and Micah, Rachel Maddow, many-many others including several at FOX like)
Partisanship and Reporting need to be divorced. Permanently.
With the MSM's monopolistic platform sucking up the majority of the "news" consumption, they have a lock on all content(/Propaganda) that's issued and echoed through their vast networks. If a political party wants to spend money on airtime to push an agenda -- cool. Now pay for it and put a clear indicator of the Organization/entity/individual who on the screen for the duration of the piece you wish to air.
The people deserve to know who is pushing what propaganda, in order to make informed decisions about the 'why should I care/how does this affect me' aspect of watching/internalizing the News.
I'd like to see a shift to REAL Independent journalism here in the next decade, fully replacing the current MSM. No, I'm not saying that all of it should be ambush/undercover journalism like what Project Veritas has been doing, although there's always a time and place for that, usually surrounding a coverup of some kind.
Rather, I'd like to see that we move away altogether from the issuance of "4am talking points." Diversity of thought and opinion is what makes the dialogue productive, leading to respectful analysis of others' viewpoints, and most importantly -- common-ground areas that cannot be reached when you've got Social Actuaries splitting the vote damn near 50/50 based on their data-driven wedge issues. Currently, the only topics within the MSM that are touched upon revolve around disagreeing with the "other party," rather than finding any sort of common ground for all Americans. It's a mockery of productive discourse. A sham.
Future Journalism should be boring as all hell, and I won't complain one bit.
When we stray from that diversity of thought and inclusion of others' perspectives, we create a hive-mind echo chamber just like what the current MSM does -- we've all heard it from our CNN and FOX-watching friends, when they repeat verbatim some 'talking point' without regard for WHO put that thought into their head. Fast forward a bit, and we all end up like ChazChoppistan.
[–] AlternateSelection 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
The day after the US is reduced to smouldering ruins