A Newsman Confesses the Truth about the Slanted Media

As told to: 

        George Sontag

   
"The most effectual engines for pacifying a nation are the public papers... A despotic government always keeps a kind of standing army of news-writers who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invent and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper."  Thomas Jefferson

          
       "I worked in television news for 10 years from 2004 to 2015. There is a growing trend of skepticism on the internet right now as people start to call out mainstream media for its honesty (or rather, lack thereof). Here’s the first thing that many people don’t truly understand about the news media. It is biased to those that fund it." Nearly every news organization in the United States is in on the game in which requiring journalists/reporters write with the sponsor/advertiser in mind, not the public and national interest.



       "The second thing that many people don’t really

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respect is that TV and mainstream news are almost always tied to political or religious agendas. The moral idea of non-bias reporting has been thrown out, necessarily, because TV survives off money and that money often comes from large companies who are funding certain political sides, who require their side to win. News isn’t about news anymore, it’s a marketing tool for politicians and larger corporations looking to buy votes through fear and buy customers with stupidity."  A clear and present danger to the reading, listening and seeing public is the growth of sponsored/biased journalism masking as news.



       "The third thing that plagues the news media is sensationalism, and headlines that polarize audiences. It’s important to ‘tell it like it is and report the facts,’ but often these facts are not fact checked enough and headlines get published that are later apologized for." It is deliberate to push a leftist agenda at America. Democrats are being arrested across the country. Corruption and scandal are rampant, and the media is silent. Any Republican scandal is 75-point type, above the fold of every newspaper and the lead story on the nightly news. Democrats don’t need to inform the public. They have a PR firm that puts their message on the doorstep every morning and on TV every night at 5, 6 and 11


       "The fourth thing that occurs, almost daily, in the newsrooms is that people are constantly shifting roles. Yesterday, John (as an example) is an expert on social media. Today, John is now an expert on terrorism, since 8am this morning, and yet, even though John has no expertise in this field whatsoever, he’s given the credibility of people who can’t see the truth behind the camera." The truth is that currently there are more than thirty media personnel working as reporters, editors, correspondents, anchors, producers or media executives who once toiled for President Obama or his campaign. These are some of the so-called experts.


       American major news broadcasts and newspapers all

have become hybrids of infotainment, leak-planting, suggestion-planting, disinformation, and other manipulative operations. Massive corporate media consolidation (six massive corporations supply virtually all the news Americans receive), the dropping of most foreign correspondent and investigative journalism efforts owing to high costs, the constant and ready compliance of the few remaining owners of news media to adhere to the government line no matter how far-fetched, plus America’s now non-stop interference into the affairs of other people, The owners of America’s news media have every reason to comply with government wishes. Failure to do so would immediately cut them off from access to government officials and from the kind of juicy leaks that make journalists here and there look like they are doing their jobs. It would also be costly in the advertising department where the sale of expensive ads to other huge corporations is what pays the bills.

       The control of the media is known and accepted world-wide, except in this country where our citizens live in an illusion of press freedom. The facts are that the United States dropped three places in the latest Reporters With Borders World Press Freedom Index. The United States slid from 46th to 49th, ranking it below Niger - NIGER!!! The report appears to show an overall 8 percent increase in abuses and constraints on journalistic independence since 2014.

       A lifetime ago in 'Brave New World', Aldous Huxley predicted this as the ultimate means of social control because it w as voluntary, addictive and shrouded in illusions of personal freedom. Perhaps the truth is that we live not in an information age but a media age. It was an American, A. J. Leibling, who told us with precise accuracy, “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”