It’s that time of the year again. No, not Halloween. It’s time for the elites to save democracy by destroying democracy to stop the people from having their say in this wonderful system of theirs.
First up, the media is saving democracy.
Gearing up to report this year’s midterm election results, American television networks are facing an uncomfortable question: How many viewers will believe them?
Less and less every time they pull these stunts.
Amid rampant distrust in the news media and a rash of candidates who have telegraphed that they may claim election fraud if they lose, news anchors and executives are seeking new ways to tackle the attacks on the democratic process that have infected politics since the last election night broadcast in 2020.
People don’t trust us because we’re transparently biased and politically self-interested and our coverage is really a sustained election-rigging program.
Let’s double down on that and blame the people for distrusting us.
CBS has been televising elections since 1948. But this is the first year that the network has felt obligated to install a dedicated “Democracy Desk” as a cornerstone of its live coverage. Seated a few feet from the co-anchors in the network’s Times Square studio, election law experts and correspondents will report on fraud allegations and threats of violence at the polls.
Deploying more invented experts to put forward the same narrative hasn’t worked before, but this time…. still no.
“I can’t control what politicians are going to say, if they choose to call an election result into question,” said David Chalian, CNN’s political director. “You’ve got to be clear, when it’s a partial picture, that nothing about that is untoward.”
CNN’s political director declares nothing untoward has happened in election yet to take place.
This is Ceaușescu-level totalitarian clowning.
Even as Americans consume information from an increasingly kaleidoscopic set of news sources — social media, hyperpartisan blogs, streaming services and family Facebook posts — the big TV networks still play a major role in setting the narrative of an election night, for better and worse.
Who can forget that the New York Times tweeted, “The role of declaring the winner of a presidential election in the U.S. falls to the news media” in 2020?
(Fun fact, if you google it, you won’t find it. Bing still brings it up.)
If you use DuckDuckGo, you’ll find it.
Yes, since Duck gets its results from Bing
Yes, since DuckDuckGo gets its results from Bing.
Bing itself acts like a virus. I had to clear it off our work network once and that required editing the registry on the server and every infected pc. Going through duckduckgo seems to keep it off.
Really? I suppose I should use Ducky, then. I do enjoy the photos on Bing, though.
Great article.
Is it possible for commentators to include avatars? I’m way too handsome to just use my name. I need to spread some beauty.
There should also be “trusted users” whose comments don’t get sent to moderation. That would save the moderators a lot of time. “Trusted user” status can always be revoked if abused.
Good points. MSM is losing credibility, like Pravda and official media in the USSR lost credibility.
Ironically,Pravda is much more reliable nowadays than our fake news media. Some of its articles are quite good. No fake news media screed is good. Quite the opposite.
Alternative headline: “FPM Propagandist Implies Election Yet to Take Place Will Be Corrupt (Except, Of Course, Should the Candidates He Likes Wins, in Which Case His Never Mind All That Poisonous Bile About How Elections Are Run By Caucescu-Like Totalitarians”
The election is already extremely corrupt and this article doesn’t predict any corruption anyway. CNN is already claiming nothing untoward occurred during an election yet to take place and is set to feature a panel of subversive fake experts from election day until final tally to scam viewers into believing the election is fair. And of course, the scummy hypocritical liars will declare every major Republican win as a cheat and fraud, while every Dirtbagocrat fake victory is the model of election probity.
Your projection and transference are as dishonest as thy are idiotic.
You must really love Bidenflation, stagflation, shortages, quality reduction, rampant crime, tranny tyranny and all the other gifts of the lawless Dirtbagocrat government. Scumbag.
May I suggest that no candidate be seriously considered who has has not spent three years driving a taxicab in a volatile urban environment.
No one can tell the hack who drives after midnight how dangerous the streets are. How important are the patrol cops at night. Superficial ticket writing bullies in sunlight, they are the ONLY ones looking out for the cabbies at night. Where drivers die in eighty dollar robberies.
No one can lecture a cabbie on drug epidemics. On prostitution. On Confidence Rackets. On sordid tales that could have been taken straight out o Naked City. And all of it real.
I owned and drove a cab forty years ago. At times I am familiar with the topics upon which I profound.
profound = propound
TV was the downfall of USA (maybe other countries also). Before TV, people had nothing better to do than talk to each other. Each afternoon, a group of Berkeley professors who lived in my neighborhood used to get together after they got home from work for Happy Hour, exchanging exquisite wit and pearls of wisdom. Instead of sitting at their feet, imbibing their priceless wisdom, which they would have allowed me to do, their son and I snuck off to his room and watched the 3 Stooges on TV 🙂
As fast as changes come, some things never change, eh?
The news media don’t report the truth because there is no money in it for them. That makes lies more valuable to them to report. The media are a pretty pathetic bunch of people, they definitely won’t like the accommodations they have reserved for themselves in the near future.
Always thinking ahead these Dems.