{"id":54674,"date":"2024-04-29T09:20:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54674"},"modified":"2024-04-29T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:20:59","slug":"why-almost-all-of-the-news-sounds-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54674","title":{"rendered":"Why Almost All Of The News Sounds The Same"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, John Hinderaker at Power Line Blog<\/a> posted an article about the current state of journalism in America.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Commentary in the liberal press is so uniform that you wonder whether reporters and commentators have coordinated their coverage, down to the word and the phrase. Well, they have, of course. You remember JournoList, where, years ago, reporters would gather to coordinate their pro-Democrat, anti-Republican stories. JournoList supposedly disbanded after it came to light, but I assume it more likely just went underground.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here we have another instance, JournoList 2. Politico<\/a>\u00a0reports: \u201cInside the Off-the-Record Calls Held by Anti-Trump Legal Pundits.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the Jan. 6 committee was working on its bombshell investigation into the Capitol riot and President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the last election, committee staffers took some time out of their seemingly 24-hour jobs one day in 2022 to brief a group of lawyers and legal pundits on a Zoom call.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The people on the call weren\u2019t affiliated with the investigation or the government. But they would have been familiar to anyone who watches cable news. They were some of the country\u2019s most well-known legal and political commentators, and they were there to get insights into the committee\u2019s work and learn about what to look for at the hearings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To \u201clearn what to look for.\u201d That is, to coordinate their news coverage. But that zoom wasn\u2019t a one-off:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The group\u2019s gathering was not a one-time event, but in fact an installment in an exclusive weekly digital salon, whose existence has not been previously reported, for prominent legal analysts and progressive and conservative anti-Trump lawyers and pundits. Every Friday, they meet on Zoom to hash out the latest twists and turns in the Trump legal saga \u2014 and intellectually stress-test the arguments facing Trump on his journey through the American legal system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The Politico reporter, while sharing the group\u2019s anti-Trump bias, understood that not everyone would see it that way:<\/strong><\/p>\n

[A]s I was reporting this story, I learned that some members of the group were understandably anxious about its publication. Trump has claimed that there is a legal conspiracy against him, and there is a risk that news of a group such as this could give Trump and his allies an attractive target.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s claims of an organized conspiracy might be bunk, but there are other potential problems with the Friday Zooms: There is a risk, for instance, that the calls could breed groupthink or perhaps help dubious information spread, where it might then reach people watching the news.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s claim obviously is not bunk, as the Politico article itself reveals. And the idea that the weekly calls could \u201cbreed groupthink\u201d or \u201chelp dubious information spread\u201d to \u201cpeople watching the news\u201d? That is the whole point, obviously.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is just one more reminder that the legacy press is hopelessly corrupt and wholly unreliable. Happily, hardly anyone pays any attention to these people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If we are going to save America, we have to learn to listen carefully to both the mainstream media and the alternative media. When almost all of the media uses the same words to describe the same news, something is not right.<\/p>\n

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