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AP goes head first into politically correct - bullet - 07-21-2017 08:47 AM
http://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/l-brent-bozell-the-ap-stylebook-is-getting-crazy/
Back in those ancient days when teletypes gave us the sound effects for news, The Associated Press was esteemed as the gold standard of objective news coverage. Inside a liberal media bubble, that pretense continues. But for decades now, AP has tacked hard to port along with the rest of the media establishment. They'll deny it, of course, because that's what they do.
But the evidence is there, emblazoned in the AP Stylebook, which sets the rules for the language of news reporting. It also sets the tone of the media elite's daily composition in every format — print, online or broadcast. They say it "defines clear news writing" and call it "the journalist's bible," which is a fairly damning phrase, since it rejects the Bible.
There are no longer two genders or illegal immigrants or even immigrants and no such thing as pro-life.
RE: AP goes head first into politically correct - bullet - 07-21-2017 08:48 AM
I've noticed in the last couple of years that you can no longer trust AP stories. They are frequently editorials masquerading as news stories.
RE: AP goes head first into politically correct - Lord Stanley - 07-21-2017 08:52 AM
Think about this: the media has sold its soul simply so that they can be invited to the cool parties in LA, DC and NYC, leading to the reality that the MSM is not (not Can't Be, but Is Not) trusted because the powers that be want to have cocktails with the cool kids.....
RE: AP goes head first into politically correct - bullet - 07-21-2017 09:01 AM
(07-21-2017 08:52 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote: Think about this: the media has sold its soul simply so that they can be invited to the cool parties in LA, DC and NYC, leading to the reality that the MSM is not (not Can't Be, but Is Not) trusted because the powers that be want to have cocktails with the cool kids.....
There's some of that. But I remember a Freshman English class where the TA asked everyone to state their majors and the reasons they chose them. The female journalism major, with a chilling calm, said, "I chose journalism because I want to manipulate people's opinions."
RE: AP goes head first into politically correct - bullet - 07-21-2017 09:11 AM
http://www.hoover.org/research/americas-media-meltdown
Article does a good job of going through the failures of the media while pursuing Obama worship and the disdain of the Obama administration for both the media and the American people. There's also this comment:
"...In addition, the current generation of marquee reporters was schooled at the major journalism schools by veterans of the 1960s, when the “new” journalism saw progressive political activism—opposition to the Vietnam War and the promotion of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism—as the proper counterweight to traditional and supposedly regressive American values.
Postmodernism—the theory that there are no absolute facts or eternal truths, only interpretations based on power machinations—seeped out from university English departments into the larger elite culture. Such relativism may explain the epidemic of fake news accounts and plagiarism as alternative “narratives” rather than simple untruths...."
RE: AP goes head first into politically correct - Lord Stanley - 07-21-2017 09:15 AM
(07-21-2017 09:01 AM)bullet Wrote:(07-21-2017 08:52 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote: Think about this: the media has sold its soul simply so that they can be invited to the cool parties in LA, DC and NYC, leading to the reality that the MSM is not (not Can't Be, but Is Not) trusted because the powers that be want to have cocktails with the cool kids.....
There's some of that. But I remember a Freshman English class where the TA asked everyone to state their majors and the reasons they chose them. The female journalism major, with a chilling calm, said, "I chose journalism because I want to manipulate people's opinions."
Yes, but that's only enabled because the media's leadership lives in midtown Manhattan and the DC suburbs where they have to write with a progressive tenor as opposed to presenting facts.
Otherwise, no cocktails.