The MSM Creed

[NanceGreggs]

… or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and LOVE the Bullshit:

I don’t really care what I say, as long as I am paid to say it.

Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist – until I realized it was an obsolete profession. So now I do what I do instead of being a journalist.

I look good on TV – why should my career depend on anything more than that?

I am willing to be a liberal, a progressive, a Democrat, a Republican, a RW shill – depending on which pays more.

Facts are over-rated – soundbytes sell better.

I am all for equality – that’s why I equate Trump lying with HRC telling the truth as being the same thing. That’s what “equality” is all about.

I do not know what “investigative journalism” means. I have queried my colleagues, and they don’t know either. I suspect this term was coined by people who expect MSM bobbleheads to actually look into things before they spew them over the airwaves as being factual. And I should waste my time doing that because …?

If you don’t believe what I’m saying, why can’t you use Google to find the truth? What do I look like, your personal fact-finder? That is SO NOT my job.

I believe that real facts seriously interfere with my ability to report made-up facts. How is THAT fair?

Since when is “some people are saying” NOT a reliable source of information?

People who expect verifiable facts, as opposed to rumours being cited as fact, are nit-picking purists who are never satisfied with anything.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I am well within my rights to report that it’s a hippopotamus with a stutter, a limp, and a head cold.

Where is the creativity in stating things as they are? What happened to appreciating the artistry required to make shit up?

“Facts” are SO passé. They only appeal to old geezers who were born before rumours were invented.

I started in this business as a nobody with something worthwhile to say. I am now a somebody with nothing worthwhile to say. And that, my friends, is the secret of my MSM success.

[Warpy]

1. Well, don't forget the other part

"Access" is something to be preserved at all costs. Never mind it's a smug, bloviating hack who's Gish Galloping through an interview, you're not allowed to challenge a single lie because then he'll get all put out and not appear on your network any more.

Or that's the theory. The reality is that these gasbags on the far right are so enormously in love with themselves that they'll spout off to any microphone in their vicinity, no matter which network owns it.

[FuzzyRabbit]

4. The reason they never challenge a lie

is that if they do, they may not get invited to hang out with "important people" at the next cocktail party.

[ronnie624]

7. Social status is a very important element. n/t

[JHB]

10. "We know the first time we bark it's the last time we do the show"

Relevant part at the 50s mark

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Can't help remembering

waaaay back to high school journalism class --- and it's hard to imagine any of today's primetime media types getting out of there with more than a "D". Sevareid and Murrow would find no welcome in today's broadcast media, and print "news" is disappearing right along with newspapers and magazines.

With a disturbing determination to confuse fact with fiction, your "talking hair-dos" are mucking things up BIGLY.



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[shadowmayor]

3. A Hippo

With a stutter, a limp, and a head cold!!! A wonderful description - thank you.

[brer cat]

5. You are spot on as usual, Nance.

Walter Cronkite must be spinning in his grave. Somehow "and that's the way somebody somewhere thinks it should be or could be or might be or ought to be" is just not quite as catchy as "and that's the way it is."

[TrishaJ]

6. BRAVO!

However, I call them "CCI" has opposed to "MSM." They are Corporate Cable Infotainment - especially in the case of CNN and MSNBC.

[ismnotwasm]

8. K&R

[nolabels]

9. And the reason i often cruise this place, the nuggets of truth can set you free

Never to look down on the person, they are just doing it to make a living and have a career, however twisted and perverted it might look