Oh good: Hundreds of newspapers ran editorials today in a planned, coordinated attack on Trump
Article CAIRCO note:
The leftist mainstream media just engaged in a massive propaganda effort
Article publisher:
Canada Free Press
Article date:
17 August 2018
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
There is a difference between opinion writing and propaganda.
Opinion writing reflects the independent opinion of the individual or institution expressing itself. It’s for the purpose of persuading, but also of letting you know the bias of the writer....
If you read it and it makes you think, then the writer did his or her job.
... Propaganda is typically organized and coordinated with a specific outcome in mind. Propaganda disguises itself as independent and honest, but it’s really driven an agenda of manipulation...
Now, the news media would have you believe politicians are propagandists, whereas they are the honest straight-shooters with no agenda and no intent to manipulate. It upsets them very much when President Trump and others suggest that they, in fact, are propagandists and are engaged in the very thing they claim to check in others.
Yet today they ham-handedly proved him right:
More than 300 news publications across the country are joining together to defend the role of a free press and denounce President Trump’s ongoing attacks on the news media in coordinated editorials publishing Thursday, according to a tally by The Boston Globe.
The project was spearheaded by staff members of the editorial page at the Globe, who write: “This relentless assault on the free press has dangerous consequences. We asked editorial boards from around the country – liberal and conservative, large and small — to join us today to address this fundamental threat in their own words.”...
... Self-reverential as ever, the news media has decided to not only make itself the story, but launch into a major departure from its normal mode of operation in order to stop the scourge of people criticizing them....
The fact is that roughly half the American public feels the press is biased against their point of view, and doesn’t trust their reporting of the day’s events to be honest or objective. A Gallup poll last year said only 31 percent of the public trusts the media....
Donald Trump thinks the press behave more like propagandists than like journalists. They are sure proving him right with their little stunt today.
CAIRCO research