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| Brian Williams and Josef Goebbels |
New York, NY—NBC News has like
all the major networks have lost audience, revenue and credibility in recent
years.
Make no mistake; the days of
Walter Cronkite are long gone. When
Cronkite said, “And that's the way it is.” that had some real meaning. Instead today it’s, “that’s the way we want you to believe it is.”
It was Nazi propaganda
Minister Josef Goebbels who said that, “If
you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth.” He used the new media of the day, radio to
convince the German people that Adolf Hitler was their savior. Of course if you heard it on the radio it must
be true.
Likewise Franklin Roosevelt
fed Americans what he wanted them to believe in his infamous radio
Fireside Chats.
Soon it was TV that took on the role of
indoctrinating the masses. But in the USA they made somewhat an early effort to
avoid the Goebbels style of reporting news.
In recent decades NBC has
reported all things from a Leftist slant and like the others major news
organizations. They became the de facto
Obama Administration’s public relations agency.
They’ve managed to cover-up scandal after scandal plaguing Obama.
We seem to have forgotten how
relentlessly American TV news destroyed Richard Nixon on the Watergate
Scandal. The difference was Nixon was a
Conservative and was naturally targeted by the Left leaning media.
Now in a senseless moment of
stolen valor the NBC News primary news anchor claimed to be in a helicopter
that was shot down in Iraq. That fable
took on a life of it’s own but was exposed as being so much baloney.
Williams apologized
suggesting that he misspoke mitigating it like it was some unintended teleprompter
error. In a real world where the truth
matters NBC would have removed him the second he crossed the line.
It remains to be seen what
NBC does but they all know that the news media has seen instance after instance
where news stories have been invented, slanted and fictionalized. Do they even care at this juncture?
Williams is the masthead of
NBC. NBC is on a steep decline anyway so
whatever they do will be too little and too late to save the network’s
reputation.
Similar issues came up with
CBS and their former anchor Dan Rather. Rather was spreading libelous
propaganda targeting George W. Bush but when he was caught red-handed CBS had
to show him the door.
If you see it on TV you can
bet it’s a lot of things, but truth is not necessarily one of them.
For those that call
themselves journalists and take that role seriously Williams is now as toxic as
they come.
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