A recent American study reported that many editors and reporters simply do not trust their readers to make good decisions. Let's be clear about what this means. This is a polite way of saying that these editors and reporters think their readers are too stupid to think for themselves.
Monday, November 17, 2008
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The report is obviously accurate. The only omission is that they didn't include journalists and commentators in the survey. How else to explain the hissy-fit being thrown by all the reporters on TV who couldn't fathom how we, the great unwashed, should be so stupid as to re-elect a Conservative government.
Peter Mansbridge with the CBC "We don't just bring you the news, we tell you why its important" ad, was the last straw for me.
The recent public debate between Ezra Levant and 'journalism' prof. John Miller moe or less expalins it all. If Miller is the 'teacher', what can be expected.
(I apologize for the bad typing!)
Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge nailed the inevitable outcome of willful adherence to the creed of relativism so pervasive in the MSM and other bastions of "enlightenment":
It has become abundantly clear in the second half of the twentieth century that Western Man has decided to abolish himself. Having wearied of the struggle to be himself, he has created his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, his own vulnerability out of his own strength; himself blowing the trumpet that brings the walls of his own city tumbling down, and, in a process of auto-genocide, convincing himself that he is too numerous, and laboring accordingly with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer in order to be an easier prey for his enemies; until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keels over a weary, battered old brontosaurus and becomes extinct.
["Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith," p. 16]
"...their readers are too stupid to think for themselves..."
Evidently 52.5% of them are.
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