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Corrupt media leads to a corrupt democracy…

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A nice item from the Shoestring Millionaire that I came across at Kate’s SDA.

Another example of someone writing what I’m thinking.

Maybe, just maybe, people are less convinced of the value of organised journalism because organised journalism is failing to provide value.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the majority of people employed in the business of journalism are desperately, almost religiously committed to a particular world view, and that they will go to tremendous effort to avoid seeing, hearing or speaking anything that contradicts the little narrative that they have built for themselves.

The insipid, willful credulity of the press is quickly approaching the level of parody.

Inevitably, elements of the truth emerged, but not through the press. Instead, the story was taken up by bloggers, and by talk radio. The facts that did come out ought to have made this one of the biggest news stories of the decade – it certainly had all of the elements of a blockbuster movie: The US State department secretly dealing in restricted weapons with Al-Qaeda operatives; an 11th-hour recantation by a disillusioned diplomat; the flight to a safe house; a betrayal by a friendly power; gunfire in the night, and a last desperate battle on the rooftops, with an ineffectual President unable or unwilling to act while hopelessly outnumbered Navy Seals beg repeatedly for help that is held just out of reach.

The shame, the tragedy, and the final horror of this affair were like something that Shakespeare might have concocted in one of his darker moods.

To date, I have yet to see a single significant story about the Benghazi affair by a major news organization. The press held back their hand, because telling this story would unmake the narrative they had so carefully crafted.

They inhabited a bright and brittle universe which held at its center the absolute imperative that Barrack Obama should be re-elected as the American president.

There are stories out there where you have to conclude there was some sort of voter fraud. But since the media’s candidate won, we don’t get front page and around the clock coverage and demands for action.

A corrupt media leads to a corrupt democracy.


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