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Title: Stunning Admission By Retiring MSM Journalist - States MSM Should Decide Relevancy Of News And Determine What People 'Need To Know,' Laments The 'Revolution Of Communications'
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URL Source: http://allnewspipeline.com/CBS_Schieffer_Stunning_Admission.php
Published: May 30, 2015
Author: Susan Duclos
Post Date: 2015-06-01 10:21:21 by Deckard
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Views: 1776
Comments: 17
Bob Schieffer is retiring, with Sunday's "Face The Nation" being announced as his last show, and in the commentary from Schieffer seen below, he makes some stunning admissions showing what MSM journalists believe their "job" is, which isn't to inform the people, or hold politicians accountable, but to "tell people what we think is revelant" and determine "what they need to know."
His exact quote is below.
"We now don’t know where people get their news, but what we do know is they’re bombarded with information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most of the information is wrong and some of it is wrong on purpose. It is our job, I think, in mainstream journalism to try to cut through this mall of information and tell people what we think is relevant and what they need to know. That is the job of the journalist and I have to say it’s harder and harder."
Let that sink in for a second.......
Schieffer also laments the "revolution of communications," that he believes has turned Washington, DC upside down.
Alternative Media, like ANP, believe the exact opposite, it isn't our job to determine what is and is not relevant, we believe our job is to bring all the information to readers, provide links to the original sources, embed documents when possible, give readers everything and anything, trust them to click the links, read the information and determine for themselves what is relevant to them, what they need to know.
We are asked often, why report conspiracy theories that have not been proven yet?
Let me give readers a few quick examples of why providing every scrap of information to readers so they can research it for themselves is so important in this day and age when the MSM feeds the general public what they, or Washington, think people should know while ignoring anything Washington doesn't want people to know.
Five- six years ago Tea Party groups and patriot groups claimed the IRS was targeting them and the MSM casually mentioned it, implying it was nothing but a "conspiracy theory," ignoring the multitude of evidence via letters from the IRS and harassment aimed at groups that opposed the administration's agenda and ideology.
Until........ three to four years later, IRS official Lois G. Lerner publicly apologized for targeting groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names, with the MSM then apparently surprised and stating this was confirmation of "long-standing accusations by some conservatives that their applications for tax-exempt status were being improperly delayed and scrutinized."
How about Benghazi? If left to the MSM with very few exceptions, the general public would still think the terrorist attack was part of a protest over a movie trailer, when subsequent information proved without a doubt that there was no protest in that location and it was, indeed, a terrorist attack.
Moving along to Syria where the MSM and the Obama administration insisted a massive chemical attack against Syrians was conducted by the Syrian leadership, with Alternative Media providing the evidence, by way of videos created by the very rebels that the US adminstration was supporting, showing that THEY were conducting those chemical attacks.
The examples go on and on, but those clearly show why the MSM has failed, becoming nothing more than propaganda arms for Washington, DC.
When I started writing, it was straight politics and my reasoning was that reading the MSM would report that they obtained documents and they determined what was important in said documents, they decided what people need to focus on, rarely providing links to them or embedding them so that readers could make those determinations for themselves, but when I visited blogs, they provided the links to the original sources, they provided the documents or data in question, where so much information was found, information the MSM never even mentioned.
Are all conspiracy theories true? NO, but they are not all false either, which is why trusting the public, asking them to research, read, follow the links, then confirm, disagree or even debunk the determinations or beliefs of others, is so very important.
The bottom line here is the MSM want sheep, those that allow themselves to believe whatever they are told to believe.... Alternative Media want people to think for themselves, to determine what is relevant to them, to decide what "they need to know."
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
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A widly off base interpretation of what was stated. Though I don't support the mainstream press, the charge here is that alternate news services are crap. And for the most part most fall into the Debka like territory. Even CNN now is doing more opinion shows and a cooking show and a show by that Dirty Jobs guy - to compete with the alternative news media that popped up. The future is very much info-tainment. And sorry, Joe Blow can't tell shit from shino-la what is news, what is important for him to know and follow. Journalists - if they do their job right - should be directing people to news that is important. I will say that the fact that people are not turning to traditional news media means the old guard has failed and has been outed out as shills for the current order.
Journalists should be investigating stories and not deciding "what's important". Bob Schieffer is NOT a journalist by any stretch of the imagination. He's a bought and paid for presstitute. Why do you think the MSM ratings have been plummeting? It's because they are propaganda outlets for fed.gov. CNN is running infomercials now to generate ad revenue - that's how desperate they are. Schieffer is a controlled Mockingbird media puppet just trying to make himself and his former employer seem relevant.
That is nonsense. How do you select what is important or not anyway? What a talk radio show host tells you? That is the skill of a reporter and editor - what is news worthy. By the way, that is why an editorial page exists for newspapers - they were there to tell you the built in bias. In the rest of the world, most newspapers where their bias on their sleeve - some are actually owned or affiliated with political parties. The real damage done to trustworthy news is the news media pretending they are neutral when they are not.
Being told what's important by the Official Pronouncers of Acceptable Opinion may be fine for the brain-dead masses who willingly drink the MSM kool-aid and are too lazy or too stupid to decide for themselves what's news and what isn't. However, even you have to admit that the MSM has long outlasted it's usefulness. It's a relic of a bygone age, a dinosaur that has been made obsolete by the alternative media and in it's last rattling breath is desperately trying to make itself seem essential. It says something to me when I see the three major broadcast networks reporting the same stories, virtually simultaneously during their nightly newscasts. The news is controlled and has been for some time now, look up Project Mockingbird.
I agree what is stated about the media - but independent cyber news is no better in the states - though there are a few exceptions - I enjoy Vice news but I don't know if I can take them seriously, etc. I actually enjoy English language news from India.
Why wouldn't he say that when he has lived his whole life following those orders without question? It's never occurred to him that he is an elitist member of the Thought Police.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
EVEN CNN? CNN was the worse offender. They KNOWINGLY told lies as truth when the lies supported the leftist viewpoints of Red Ted Turner,and didn't get any better once he sold out. They were caught and proven to have been lying several times. From the whole "Operation Tailwind" report to being caught switching "yes" and "no" buttons on polls.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
When the news comes on TV, switch from ABC to NBC to CBS. They're all running the exact same stories. How is that?
YOU said this....I can't believe it....YOU really said THIS? For you, I make an exception....stay on the POT, if it causes you to think this way.
Cokehead Roberts said this way back in the 1990's -- claiming that the Internet would destroy society because it allows people to discuss news without it being filtered by the MSM.
The internet has destroyed the MSM, not society. Gatekeepers like Cokie here and now Bob Schieffer are seeing the control they once had over the public fading away - the old media has become a laughingstock, what - like 20% of Americans still believe the lies they spew?
Calling someone that is a compliment to Deckard. You didn't know of his love for narcotics?
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Every once in a while, one of these propaganda news outlets will let a truth slip out, but by and large they exist to to serve the fed.gov/big business globalist agenda.
Not so much "Thought Police" - more like "Ministry of Truth". Official Mouthpieces for the Ruling Elite.
If MSM were more honest they would be superior. If ...
I seriously doubt even 20 percent watch the national news,and most of the ones that watch the local news watch it to get the weather and the sports scores. Even then it's usually people over 40. Young people have other things to do with their free time.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Bread and Circuses.
"We now don’t know where people get their news, but what we do know is they’re bombarded with information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most of the information is wrong and some of it is wrong on purpose. It is our job, I think, in mainstream journalism to try to cut through this mall of information and tell people what we think is relevant and what they need to know. That is the job of the journalist and I have to say it’s harder and harder."
#2. To: Pericles (#1)
Journalists - if they do their job right - should be directing people to news that is important.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
(Edited)
Journalists should be investigating stories and not deciding "what's important".
#4. To: Pericles (#3)
How do you select what is important or not anyway?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#5. To: Deckard (#4)
(Edited)
#6. To: Deckard (#0)
#7. To: Pericles (#1)
Even CNN now is doing more opinion shows and a cooking show and a show by that Dirty Jobs guy - to compete with the alternative news media that popped up.
#8. To: Deckard (#0)
"It is our job, I think, in mainstream journalism to try to cut through this mall of information and tell people what we think is relevant and what they need to know."
#9. To: Deckard (#2)
Journalists should be investigating stories and not deciding "what's important".
#10. To: Deckard (#0)
#11. To: cranko, Pericles, sneakypete (#10)
Cokehead Roberts said this way back in the 1990's -- claiming that the Internet would destroy society because it allows people to discuss news without it being filtered by the MSM.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#12. To: cranko (#10)
Cokehead
#13. To: sneakypete (#7)
CNN was the worse offender. They KNOWINGLY told lies as truth when the lies supported the leftist viewpoints of Red Ted Turner,and didn't get any better once he sold out.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#14. To: sneakypete (#6)
It's never occurred to him that he is an elitist member of the Thought Police.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#15. To: Pericles (#1)
#16. To: Deckard (#11)
like 20% of Americans still believe the lies they spew?
#17. To: Pericles (#1)
The future is very much info-tainment.
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