JOHN NOLTE:: Tapper, Norah O’Donnell, and Campbell Brown Rebel Against the Media-Collective
By MB Snow at August 26, 2012 | 12:43 am | Print
by JOHN NOLTE –
Only because it’s my job, I follow hundreds of mainstream media types on Twitter and all day long watch broadcasts of MSNBC and CNN. The fact that this makes me the least informed person in the country is for another post, but what I see reminds me very much of high school. It’s hard to quantify, but like The Matrix, as these thousands of tweets stream by throughout the day, you eventually see a pattern and get a sense of how this subculture works.
Just like high school, there’s a pecking order in the media — a cool kids’ table, and the requisite desire to be liked, need to be included, and a somewhat nauseating set of rules to it all. Glib, detached irony is a calling card as is an obsession with the fun and games of politics — because that’s all any of this is to them. It’s as though taking the future of your country seriously immediately relegates you to the nerd table.
To be fair, though, some things they do take seriously. The RIGHT things, the politically correct things: same-sex marriage, the Congressional Black Caucus — that kind of stuff. I’m not trying to throw a newsflash your way that the media is leftist, you already knew that, but what’s fascinating to watch is the CONFORMITY.
Bottom line: Everything a vast majority of the media does is meant to impress their own. It has nothing to do with getting to the truth or informing the public. They’re writing, reporting, and tweeting only to satisfy and aggrandize The Collective — to continually prove they belong or to improve their standing.
Like I said, it’s like high school, and wanting to be part of the cool kids’ clique requires conformity – and this conformity isn’t exclusive to only left-wing journalists. Media-approved conservatives like Joe Scarborough, David Frum, Peggy Noonan, and the like are just as bad; maybe worse because they should know better.
via Tapper, Norah O’Donnell, and Campbell Brown Rebel Against the Media-Collective.
