Media primer. Understanding how they work. That's what this blog is about. Part of its mission, anyway.
The (((media))) move in lockstep. They take their cues from the top. That means the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press.
It doesn't matter who invents it, just that all work in concert to promote it. What is it? It's an epithet for smearing some man or group opposed to The Agenda. Examples will occur to you easily - racist, homophobe, misogynist.
It's not just nouns. It's adjectives too. If a Bad Man does something, he obviously does it for Bad Reasons. So bad adjectives and adverbs should be applied to his actions.
A month back it was "dark." Yesterday it was "chaos" or "chaotic." Can you guess who these terms were applied to?
We have a free press, sort of, legally, in the USA, but all the common media use the same terms, arguments and frames. Isn't that interesting?
Just look around, and see how when you see some new adjective applied to Trump - it's used across the board. This is 'best practice' among the media. We'll see what new ones they think up as the Trump administration proceeds.
It works in reverse too. Not just in politics, but anywhere. In sports. So that blacks are always possessors of 'athleticism.' Whereas whites presumably do not. They get by on hustle and grit.
But really...teach yourself about media control by scanning the headlines at Google News and Yahoo daily for a few weeks. You will notice not just that any article that can take a position is leftist and Trump-hostile or -critical. And you will notice the subtler point that the exact same adjective will be used by different sources on the same day. All these "free" and independent sources are promoting the same agenda, the same line, in the exact same terms. And that is the sole takeaway from this blog post.
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