The liberal press rebelled against reality - and lost

[FakeNews]

On the cover of the The Denver Post’s latest Sunday edition, the headline photo features a crowd of the Colorado staff, most of whom are hollowed away in silhouettes. The shadowy gaps are supposed to elicit pity from the readers about the recent, drastic cuts to the newspaper. Joining the photo, articles from the staffers themselves denounced the massive cuts. Instead of pleading for their jobs, however, the writers were demanding that the paper’s hedge fund owners either fight to keep the paper alive, or sell the paper to someone who wants to keep it alive.

It is difficult to read that and not laugh. These journalists think of themselves as the avant-garde of some new political resistance. Since when do the workers in any profession get to unilaterally demand the employer/owner’s decisions and dictates? Have they forgotten that newspapers are a product and a service, both which must respond to public taste and the marketplace?

They haven’t necessarily forgotten it—they just choose not to believe it. Like much of the reporting from the liberal press over the last sixty years, today’s corporate journalists—if they can be called that still, with all the propagandizing and editorialized narrative-baiting—are still committed to a vision of how the world should work rather than how it actually works.

Ironically, the journalism class like The Denver Post are rebelling against the wrong people. Their rebellion against reality, and the moral standards which emerge from these realities, contributed to their downfall. The mainstream media needed the very readers whom they repeatedly disdained. Those readers have now found a better. Like the public during Rousseau’s time, working people today don’t buy into the progressive idealism of “no standards, no right or wrong.” Even worse, they have endured the brunt of progressives’ misguided, destructive idealism—the same worldview championed by The Denver Post—and now they’re the ones rebelling, and rightly so.

https://townhall.com/columnists/art...ss-rebelled-against-reality-and-lost-n2469030

 

[Taint_mAnn]

That's about enough copy and paste from you. Say hi to all the busybodys in my Iggy, fag boi.

 

[FakeNews]

That's about enough copy and paste from you. Say hi to all the busybodys in my Iggy, fag boi.

Hello, Ferm

 

[DMBFFF]

So the alt-right/conservative investors will buy out the paper, make it something Trump would approve of, and it will make a ton of money.

It's not technology, it's the politics.

You see, in America, newspapers, such as the NYT are going bankrupt, while alt-right conservative newspapers are doing as good as ever.

 

[WoundedKnee]

What alt-right newspaper? Is this sarcasm?
Political bias?

 

[BotanyBoy]

So the alt-right/conservative investors will buy out the paper, make it something Trump would approve of, and it will make a ton of money.

It's not technology, it's the politics.

You see, in America, newspapers, such as the NYT are going bankrupt, while alt-right conservative newspapers are doing as good as ever.

Or just not some more lefty fantasy bullshit like "252038345983475 genders!!! And why you need to respect all their pronouns!!!" Bullshit you see in "progressive", generally speaking anti-American lefty rags.

 

[bellisarius]

*chuckle* Seems as though Peterson's messages are resonating.

 

[WoundedKnee]

Or just not some more lefty fantasy bullshit like "252038345983475 genders!!! ...

You missed one. It was created last night at a free-wheeling opium party.
Who would have ever thought that you could put that in there!

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[ThatsTheGuy]

So the alt-right/conservative investors will buy out the paper, make it something Trump would approve of, and it will make a ton of money.

It's not technology, it's the politics.

You see, in America, newspapers, such as the NYT are going bankrupt, while alt-right conservative newspapers are doing as good as ever.

But of course, if you can't beat them - buy them. It's the American way.

 

[DMBFFF]

There is no gender, ergo no need for gender pronouns, nor "so-called "gender reassignment surgery," for the fictitious condition referred to as "gender dysphoria."

I am privileged. I'm a member of perhaps the most dominant species. What white people did to blacks pales, if one will, compared to what we've done with semi-sentient creatures. At least a billion North American pigs and bovine have been murdered these past 100 years. (and I got to get back to that thread where I was arguing with adrina and KarenGordon) Humanity murdered animals the first time he/she/thon set foot on North America.

(and FeNomm is a POS.)

 

[WoundedKnee]

Ever seen what a pack of feral hogs can do to a field?

Kill 'em all and let Allah sort them out.

 

[DMBFFF]

Free range!

 

[WoundedKnee]

Fine, if you don't eat grains, vegetables, fruits or have any interest in exporting soybeans to China, why would you care?

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

Soybeans are exported to China? Hmm. There must be some money there.

After Trump's finished beating down China, maybe I'll plant some and export the finished product. They gonna luv my soybeans.

 

[coati]

Or just not some more lefty fantasy bullshit like "252038345983475 genders!!! And why you need to respect all their pronouns!!!" Bullshit you see in "progressive", generally speaking anti-American lefty rags.

Generally speaking, progressives are anti-AmeriKKKan, not anti-American.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Generally speaking, progressives are anti-AmeriKKKan, not anti-American.

No, they are anti white people....blatantly racist as fuck most times.

They are openly against and seek to destroy no less than 5 of our constitutionally protected civil rights and every bit of capitalism possible for the glory of the nanny/god state they so desire.

Anti-American as it gets....degenerate leftist.

 

[WoundedKnee]

Why do Progressives act as if the Klan were some sort of thriving thing?
Most people who aren't Progressive are more concerned with the anger, hate, rhetoric, and violence of the Antifa types determined to render the First Amendment moot via intimidation.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Why do Progressives act as if the Klan were some sort of thriving thing?

Because without the evil white boogieman they would have to assume some responsibility for their station in life.....can't have that everything being those evil white peoples fault is much more appealing.

Most people who aren't Progressive are more concerned with the anger, hate, rhetoric, and violence of the Antifa types determined to render the First Amendment moot via intimidation.

Same shit from the far right twats too.

Remember, Free Speech doesn't mean shit THEY don't approve of....

 

[WoundedKnee]

Really.
The "far" right is engaged in violence to shut down free speech?
Is the "far right shouting down speakers who espouse a polity and philosophy that they disagree with?

The last I heard of the only violence they were associated with was the baseball shooter and the Rand beatdown (which is not to say the arrogant little shit didn't have it coming).

 

[coati]

No, they are anti white people....blatantly racist as fuck most times.

They are openly against and seek to destroy no less than 5 of our constitutionally protected civil rights and every bit of capitalism possible for the glory of the nanny/god state they so desire.

Anti-American as it gets....degenerate leftist.

You just happen to be in a deep state of denial about racism in Amerika, and you think you have a free pass to do so because you are half Asian. Nothin' I can do about either of those conditions.

Regarding the economic side, the right wing argument tends to be driven by Capitalist utopian purists who believe privatization is the only legitimate approach to allocating the limited resources on this rock we live on in space. Anything less than pure capitalism is consider heresy, unless certain benefits from the government happen to be flowing toward them.

Nothin' I can do to convince these GB purists to moderate their extreme views on economics. Just have a little fun with them from time to time.

Regarding guns, the GB right-wing argument is equally extreme. No sense arguing about restricting access to guns with a GB gun nut, so take that argument to the ballot box and have a little fun with the GB extremists from time to time.

Botany Boy is not as much fun to troll as other extremists, because he has a modicum of humor from time to time. Maybe that happens when he is really high. The super serious partisan idiots are the most fun to troll.

 

[HisArpy]

Yap yap yap...

IFYP so the rest of the world could stop wondering if you were insane or not. YW.

 

[coati]

IFYP so the rest of the world could stop wondering if you were insane or not. YW.

Unlike pathetic right-wing idiots who spend most of their lives spouting off extremist ideology on Lit (because they don't have much happening in real life), I do not worry about my sanity, nor do I care what these extremists might think about me.

All you have to do is look at posts-per-day or alts-per-year figures to recognize who on Lit is likely to fit the profile of insanity.

 

[BotanyBoy]

You just happen to be in a deep state of denial about racism in Amerika, and you think you have a free pass to do so because you are half Asian. Nothin' I can do about either of those conditions.

Not denial, I'm just not delusional enough think it's something only white people do or are capable of.

I don't think I have a free pass I just don't think white people existing and being so white is something that prevents POC/women from achieving economic success.

Regarding the economic side, the right wing argument tends to be driven by Capitalist.

That's because capitalism is economic freedom...M'arcian as fuck.

Socialism is economic oppression....un-American to the core.

Nothin' I can do to convince these GB purists to moderate their extreme views on economics. Just have a little fun with them from time to time.

Same could be said for the god state worshiping lefties.

Regarding guns, the GB right-wing argument is equally extreme. No sense arguing about restricting access to guns with a GB gun nut, so take that argument to the ballot box and have a little fun with the GB extremists from time to time.

It would be a VERY difficult thing to destroy our civil rights at the ballot box....getting that many radical leftist in office to do such a thing while not impossible is laughably implausible.

Botany Boy is not as much fun to troll as other extremists, because he has a modicum of humor from time to time. Maybe that happens when he is really high. The super serious partisan idiots are the most fun to troll.

Maybe that's because I'm a liberal ideologue, not a Republican partisan.

BTW the fact that you consider liberalism an extremist position goes to show who the real extremist here is, you.

 

[WoundedKnee]

You just happen to be in a deep state of denial about racism in Amerika, and you think you have a free pass to do so because you are half Asian. Nothin' I can do about either of those conditions.

Regarding the economic side, the right wing argument tends to be driven by Capitalist utopian purists who believe privatization is the only legitimate approach to allocating the limited resources on this rock we live on in space. Anything less than pure capitalism is consider heresy, unless certain benefits from the government happen to be flowing toward them.

Nothin' I can do to convince these GB purists to moderate their extreme views on economics. Just have a little fun with them from time to time.

Regarding guns, the GB right-wing argument is equally extreme. No sense arguing about restricting access to guns with a GB gun nut, so take that argument to the ballot box and have a little fun with the GB extremists from time to time.

Botany Boy is not as much fun to troll as other extremists, because he has a modicum of humor from time to time. Maybe that happens when he is really high. The super serious partisan idiots are the most fun to troll.

Notice that these are all declarative statements with no argument built up to make them as if they were a priori to everyone.

 

[bellisarius]

Notice that these are all declarative statements with no argument built up to make them as if they were a priori to everyone.

I notice. I'd like to deport every stupid SOB that complains about "racism" in the US to virtually any other foreign nation for a year. I'd especially like to send the American blacks to sub-Saharan Africa. It's be interesting to find out how many actually survive the experience.