A handy guide to why Tucker Carlson's trip to Hungary has sparked such leftist outrage

[swagger]

Originally Posted by Winterbeard

They do love a politician that cracks down on independent media and projects a strong man image. He fits their very specific bill.

"independent media"

lol

The crackdown on independent media is happening now, against anyone not toeing the establishment narrative.

Have you ever read multiple articles from multiple mainstream "independent" sources about the same event? It's often the same article. Maybe it was reworded, but it's literally the same article. The industry term is "churn."

Government press releases are also "churned" by these "independent" outlets (which always seem to speak with a single voice, for some reason) and reported as factual news, not a government press release. Consider the ramifications of that journalistic malfeasance, and you're just touching the tip of the iceberg.

We don't call it "fake news" because everything they're reporting is necessarily objectively false, you know. It's about how they collect the information they report, the process of verifying information and most of all, about reporting the collected information objectively and responsibly. It's fake news because the "news" business has been utterly and completely corrupted, and they're not adhering to even the most basic journalistic ethics anymore.

For instance, I think it was NBC which went to a pro-2A rally several years ago, recorded footage and produced a 1-2 minute segment about it. They framed the protest as being held by "white supremacists" and talked up their obvious racism, or some such nonsense. In the footage they showed, they had a close-up of a person carrying an AR-15 across their chest, but the shot was so tight that all you could see was the gun and the shirt the person was wearing. They showed this as they talked about the overt racism and white supremacy. The person carrying the rifle was black, and he wasn't the only "person of color" there. It was a civil rights protest which had nothing to do with race.

Look at the "objective, fact based" approaches that the mainstream media took to the stories of the Covington kids, Jessie Smollett, Russia!, any time we're dropping bombs, injecting bleach, the impeachments, immigration... ANY controversial issue or event. They don't even TRY to hide their bias anymore, and as I said, they all speak with a single voice.

Independent media? Seriously? There's never been an independent media until recently, when truly independent journalists gained access to technology which enabled them to reach the same number of people as the billion-dollar corporate media industry players. You can do with an iPhone what your local network affiliate sends a million dollar truck and a full news crew out to do. That's changed the game. You're being left behind, because you're still trusting people in an industry that's in its death throes. They're doing whatever they can to keep your eyeballs on their content, and that means two things - fear and rage. Nothing else is close when it comes to keeping you coming back for more.

[Kavalier]

Originally Posted by swagger

"independent media"

lol

The crackdown on independent media is happening now, against anyone not toeing the establishment narrative.

Have you ever read multiple articles from multiple mainstream "independent" sources about the same event? It's often the same article. Maybe it was reworded, but it's literally the same article. The industry term is "churn."

Government press releases are also "churned" by these "independent" outlets (which always seem to speak with a single voice, for some reason) and reported as factual news, not a government press release. Consider the ramifications of that journalistic malfeasance, and you're just touching the tip of the iceberg.

We don't call it "fake news" because everything they're reporting is necessarily objectively false, you know. It's about how they collect the information they report, the process of verifying information and most of all, about reporting the collected information objectively and responsibly. It's fake news because the "news" business has been utterly and completely corrupted, and they're not adhering to even the most basic journalistic ethics anymore.

For instance, I think it was NBC which went to a pro-2A rally several years ago, recorded footage and produced a 1-2 minute segment about it. They framed the protest as being held by "white supremacists" and talked up their obvious racism, or some such nonsense. In the footage they showed, they had a close-up of a person carrying an AR-15 across their chest, but the shot was so tight that all you could see was the gun and the shirt the person was wearing. They showed this as they talked about the overt racism and white supremacy. The person carrying the rifle was black, and he wasn't the only "person of color" there. It was a civil rights protest which had nothing to do with race.

Look at the "objective, fact based" approaches that the mainstream media took to the stories of the Covington kids, Jessie Smollett, Russia!, any time we're dropping bombs, injecting bleach, the impeachments, immigration... ANY controversial issue or event. They don't even TRY to hide their bias anymore, and as I said, they all speak with a single voice.

Independent media? Seriously? There's never been an independent media until recently, when truly independent journalists gained access to technology which enabled them to reach the same number of people as the billion-dollar corporate media industry players. You can do with an iPhone what your local network affiliate sends a million dollar truck and a full news crew out to do. That's changed the game. You're being left behind, because you're still trusting people in an industry that's in its death throes. They're doing whatever they can to keep your eyeballs on their content, and that means two things - fear and rage. Nothing else is close when it comes to keeping you coming back for more.

Best post I've read in a whole here. Well said.