Media Collusion Confirmed
Did you ever get the feeling the legacy media coordinates the coverage (and non-coverage)? Did you ever sense they weren’t very neutral but were actively taking sides? Did you ever feel like they were making things up that were patently untrue? Or that they were attacking certain people for having politically incorrect views?
Well, you were right. The Daily Caller has a piece with more information on the Journolist scandal. You could be forgiven for not knowing what that is since it has been largely ignored. Anyway, the piece details secret coordination of stories, including targeting conservatives for media attacks.
One reporter secretly wrote:
What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.
And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.
This ought to be a huge scandal. It confirms much of what conservatives have complained about with the media for years. Cue the chirping crickets.