As I wrote many moons ago, the most egregious instance of media bias goes practically unnoticed solely by virtue of its pervasiveness. Despite clearly breaching one of the most fundamental tenets of journalism – never mix opinion with reporting – mainstream media journalists insert their opinion in news reports every day; and almost no one notices.
The bias and standards breach I am referring to is the near-ubiquitous “far-right” slur.
Read almost any political report. “Right-wing”, “far-right” are pervasive. “Left-wing”, let alone “far-left”, almost never.
But none of those is a fact. All are opinions. But journalists throw around one-half of those opinions like frisbees, because it automatically colours reader responses against its target.
The press employ it as a means of negatively colouring public figures without having to provide anything more substantial than Chinese Whispers.
In essence, it is the art of cancelling someone without having to address the facts of their argument.
The mainstream media are dominated by sympathisers of the Democrats, or Labour, or whatever your local flavour of “liberal” politics may be. This is not a conspiracy theory, it’s a well-attested fact. Having consciously rejected the notion of objectivity, most journalists explicitly view the opposing parties as their political enemies.
Whenever the media are begrudgingly forced to write about their political opponents, they do so by first lubricating articles with unrelated titbits. These references are usually obscure. It could be that someone made the universal symbol for ‘okay’. They were at a party with a controversial figure. Maybe they’ve interviewed someone outrageous or made a joke that can be taken out of context. Imagine if you could be crucified because a provocateur shops at the same supermarket as you… That’s the low bar we are working with.
We are so used to the press tainting people in this way that the behaviour has slipped into the realm of subliminal brainwashing.
This is why the media are so determined to push the “far-right terror is the greatest threat” narrative, despite the obvious fact that Islamic terrorism absolutely wipes the floor with everyone else. It also ignores the fact that left-wing groups have been prosecuting a reign of terror for the past four years.
Unlike left-wing activists, the Christian right are not storming the streets with racist slogans, desecrating cultural heritage, defacing war memorials, looting Nike stores, and damaging public buildings. A quiet little weekend of speeches with a few prayers thrown in is not a horror story, so journalists are forced to dress it up otherwise their article would simply read, ‘Some religious people got together and talked about exercising their democratic right to involve themselves in politics’[…]
One of the worst offenders of crap journalism comes from the Sydney Criminal Lawyers, who wrote an article last week titled, ‘Dual Citizens of Australia and the Kingdom of God’. In it, Paul Gregoire – who regularly prints garbage – tried to link The Good Sauce with the National Socialist Network based upon – uh – nothing other than his sick imagination.
“Pellowe has been caught in the past taking a selfie with members of white nationalist group the Proud Boys. And he’s the editor of The Good Sauce website, which, on a perusal of its articles, looks like it would appeal to the National Socialist Network and former Senator Fraser Anning.”
Firstly, the Proud Boys are not “white nationalists” – whatever that actually means. A Big Lie remains a lie, no matter how many times the mainstream media shout it.
Secondly, “looks like”? According to whom? On the evidence, according to a “journalist” we already know is willing to repeat obvious lies in order to smear his political enemies.
Maybe journalists behave this way because they fear for their own weakness of character. It is possible that they lack an ounce of independent thought and will affix themselves to the nearest surface if offered a gluestick.
For everyone else, that is not how discourse works. Refusing to talk to each other is exactly how a society becomes radicalised. Incidentally, this is actually the point of Marxism. It is trying to manufacture disaffected, angry, fringe groups of youths who hate each other enough to overthrow democracy and replace it with a dictatorship.
No wonder they come after the Christians. The mantra of love and forgiveness works against everything the left are trying to promote.
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