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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow conservative pundits helped break reality
Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency, Detroit Free Presshttp://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/08/25/conservative-pundits-helped-break-reality/89338072/
"SNIP..............
Last week, a prominent conservative pundit conceded a point yours truly and countless others have been making for a long time. Namely, that in their constant assaults on mainstream news media, conservatives have wrecked the very idea of objective, knowable fact. In effect, they broke reality. And Donald Trump came oozing out of the ruins.
Weve basically eliminated any of the referees, the gatekeepers, Wisconsin radio host Charlie Sykes told Oliver Darcy of Business Insider. The net effect, he said, is that Trump will say some stupid thing Sykes knows to be false, but that his listeners still expect him to parrot. And if he doesnt, then suddenly, I have sold out.
When this is all over, he mused, we have to go back. Theres got to be a reckoning on all this. Weve created this monster. He added that, At a certain point, you wake up and you realize you have destroyed the credibility of any credible outlet out there. As a result, he said, conservatives are reaping the whirlwind.
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The result has been nothing less than the unraveling of the American mind. We have become a nation of junk history, junk science, junk fact, junk logic, junk thought, a nation where not knowing things is no longer a bar to high office and may even be an advantage, a nation where it is necessary to debate whether a birth certificate is really a birth certificate and Donald Trump followers think the election will be rigged.
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How conservative pundits helped break reality (Original Post)
applegrove
Aug 2016
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Bill USA
(6,436 posts)1. recommended! (could have gone on GRs)
The Polack MSgt
(13,190 posts)2. K&R nt
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)3. Sometimes I feel like it's 1970
And I'm tripping on acid again.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)5. Except news was still news in 1970.
We have the public's outraged reaction to Vietnam and Watergate, along with the ensuing frantic media consolidation, to thank for ensuring that kind of irresponsible reporting never happened again.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)4. News For Profit... Another case of the failure of privatization
bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)6. Pro
found!
Skittles
(153,169 posts)7. assholes
they're ALL assholes