You Don’t Hate the Mainstream Media Enough
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
We see who the insurrectionist are and are not.
False journalism is an attack on U.S.
The blatant disregard for Truth is a sign from the NYT that they are co-conspirators in the fight to kill the Republic.
What a mockery they make of our Freedom of Press. To many bad thoughts for me to continue on this pathway. God will see to it that each man gets his just rewards.
Aiding and abetting the enemy is treason, complicity and guilt by association.
Citizenship ought to be revoked and the criminals exiled to Guantanamo.
Hatred of sin is innocence.
“What we know about the shooter Robin..”
Same headline, news service after news service.
Disgust is too weak a word.
By calling him Robin you mock the victims and their families. Nice work, punks of the press.
“By calling him Robin you mock the victims and their families. Nice work, punks of the press.“
In the spirit of compromise, I’ll call him Rob,
Call him Rob. Even he hated the fact he had brainwashed himself into thinking he was transgender. The media are trolling the public, even through evil and misery. You really couldn’t hate them enough.
Greg:
Is he your best friend?
I just read that he died by suicide. God made him. God will take care of him.
Blessed be God.
The mental illness of the he/she/it is the killer. See how well that gender change worked? The press can’t blame the trans because they themselves promoted this dangerous situation themselves. We suffer from too much “news” and a lack of truth.
Oh yeah? Well consider this: Ken Rosato at WOR NY stated how upset he was that yesterday ABC Senior “Investigative” Reporter, Aaron Ketersky, a former colleague of his at various NY news orgs, reported Thursday that the Minneapolis trans shooter “had written ‘Trump’ on his rifle magazines.”
Ketersky somehow failed to mention the full message, that Robin Westman had scrawled, “ K— Donald Trump.”
Just a little hasty oversight by Ketersky, certainly.
The traditional legacy media effort to shape and direct the news is failing dramatically.
@ Dave RX: Univ Michigan Medical announced yesterday it is stopping immediately all gender change surgery on minors.
People on the Right keep saying “you can’t hate the mainstream media enough” and “media delenda est” and I understand completely why they do, but having once been a journalist for Catholic and secular media, I cannot help but grieve for what they once were, or at least appeared to be.
Twenty years ago the daily newspaper in Springfield occupied a two- or three-story office building downtown and had a bustling newsroom, a busy advertising department, and even a cafeteria on the premises. I went there to apply for a job but did not get it — a great disappointment to me at the time but in retrospect I dodged a bullet. Today the building has been sold to the county government, the newspaper office is a storefront in a strip mall, and you can probably count on one hand the number of paid staff they have. They also were bought out by the Gannett chain and as you might expect, nearly every story they run is distinctly left leaning and paints Trump as a villain and Pritzker and the Dems as brave resisters.
For real news about what is happening in Springfield (meaning the city and not the Illinois state government) you have to turn to Facebook pages that follow crimes, accidents, etc. I suppose that the future of “real” news lies with ordinary citizens who do it as a sideline to their full time jobs.
I saw a clip of an even worse example of media bias on this story. Someone on ABC said that the shooter had written threats, anti-Semitic slurs, and Trump’s name on his guns and equipment. Not “threats against Trump”, but “Trump’s name”.
Yes, it was more comfortable when you could count on “the news” and didn’t have to sift it for lies, omissions, and bias.
I was born too late to enjoy a time when “the news” deserved the trust it enjoyed. I have to wonder if it ever did deserve that trust.
Earlier in the republic, a paper was obviously biased and you proceeded from the assumption that the bias would need to be addressed in order to get all elements of the real story. Perhaps everything went wrong when “expert” journalists convinced us that they were impartial and told us we could put away our sieves.
Pinky.
Spin Spin Spin…..
They just can’t jeopardize their base can they?
The whole lot needs a dose of SODOM on their heads …but that is old Testament me writing right now …
Jesus. I trust in You.
You are the judge. I’m nothing.
Pray.
@ Steve Phoenix – Sorry, I had just jumped on the computer earlier and didn’t see your comment. Yes, that’s the story I saw.
A-OK Pinky.
The blame-shifting narrative by our friends in the legacy media isn’t working anymore.
It worked in Oct. 2018, “Tree of Life” synagogue shooting in which they blamed Trump for a shooter who wrote often how he hated Trump.
Not anymore.
Stranger now than fiction:
“….banning assault weapons, which she did use to attack. An assault weapon ban, may well have stopped her from using that weapon. There are a number of things we could have done.“
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5519765/minneapolis-mass-shooting-gun-reform
If only “he” could have been declared insane..
Patch sites function as a substitute for local newspapers and you still have some local broadcasting.
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I’d point to the remarks of Fred Barnes and Rod Dreher about metropolitan newspapers as they knew them. Barnes noted he’d worked for two opinion magazines during the period running from 1985 to 2000. One’s editorial line favored the Democratic Party, the other the Republicans. The interns they employed at the one received recruitment calls routinely from metropolitan newspapers. The interns at the other received no calls and he could hardly think of any who ever landed a position at a paper. They were going out of their way to avoid hiring anyone who was not on board with the narrative. (Someone like Laurie Garrett who started her career at the red haze Pacifica Radio was perfectly acceptable to metropolitan newspaper editors). People of different dispositions are going to be attracted to different sorts of employment, but there was also mass blacklisting going on, which is disconcerting when you consider there were hundreds of metropolitan newspapers at the time.
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Dreher was the oddball in that nexus. One thing you have to recall, though, is that he never held a reporter’s job. He was a restaurant critic, a film critic, a columnist, an editorial writer. He offered a story about his last years (employed at the Dallas Morning News, as it happens). He sends out a office circular pointing out that market research indicated their readership tended to be suburban and elderly. He ticks off a series of recent stories on hipster events and interests and suggested they might consider covering events of interest to their actual readers. He said the response was zero. The people who produced the editorial matter didn’t give a damn about their readers’ actual interests.
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It’s amazing the degree to which sheer inertia allowed media properties to remain going concerns. Over the last 25 years, technology has been presenting a butcher’s bill.
And each year Art mortality lessens the grip of inertia. I broke my life long newspaper habit when the Trib endorsed Obama in 2008. But even before that I realized I was getting most of my news from the internet and often I would spend five minutes glancing at the paper, if that. I got my first computers in the mid eighties. People in their forties grew up with them and people in their fifties were in their twenties when personal computers became ubiquitous. Dead tree news will soon be as dead as silent films. Cable news is following the same path to the tar pits of history.
It was pointed out during the imbroglio over Stephen Colbert’s contract that for a number of years CBS broadcast old movies to compete with Johnny Carson on NBC and that in 1972 (to take a sample year) the old movies had an audience which averaged about 7 million – an audience which exceeds in size that of Colbert and his two principal competitors. Only they were spending $100 million a year to put Colbert the air while the CBS Late Movie cost some modest royalties and the salaries of an announcer and a few technicians.