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Elucidating a media mind-set in explaining the decline of Newsweek

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In his piece on the decline and fall of Newsweek, Ace offers some insight into the liberal media mind-set:

They prefer being instructed that their opinions are not opinions at all, but facts and/or simple common sense and/or the manifestly just and right way to view the world. . . .

They don’t like hearing, for example, that by choosing Equality as the paramount good, they have decided that Freedom is a far less important good, and always to be compromised and diminished in order to expand Equality. They will insist, until their dying breath, that by choosing Equality over all else, they are actually also creating the most Freedom, too. . . .

And that’s why we’re so outraged at the MFM. This isn’t just about their smug arrogance or corrupt pretense of being the fair-and-objective Deciders. It’s a personal thing — our personal revulsion at a set of know-nothing inexpert, unprofessional clowns arrogating to themselves the power to decide what is and is not permitted in polite, enlightened discourse — but it’s not justpersonal.

(H/t:  Ed Driscoll and Glenn Reynolds.)

There’s more to it than that.  And the piece is a little long, well, okay a lot long, but well worth your time.

Comments

  1. You’re a hypocrite and you’re terrible unaware if you sit around blasting the media all day out of one side of your mouth and extol the virtues of Fox News out of the other. Anybody with any sense should know that good journalism comes almost exclusively from the internet these days, and that anything branded as such by a massive media corporation is in all likelihood the exact opposite.

  3. Anybody with any sense should know that good journalism comes almost exclusively from the internet these days, and that anything branded as such by a massive media corporation is in all likelihood the exact opposite.

    How about “journalism” funded by millionaires like Soros and Puffington?

  4. Dan, your post about Fox was only a few weeks ago:

    http://www.gaypatriot.net/2010/04/28/yawn-foxnews-hits-100th-month-of-ratings-dominance/

    Forgive me for remembering what you’ve written in the past better than you do. I have a feeling that unless I post that I totally agree with everything you say, you’re going to accuse me of being off-topic. This post is about conservatives gloating over the failure of liberal media, isn’t it? How is your post from last month about conservatives gloating over the success of conservative media off-topic in this discussion?

    All I ever see you do is wall off areas of discussion that liberals taking the time to read your posts would like to explore. Isn’t that really boring?

  5. Newsweek going belly up? Failing because no one reads it?
    Why not put Barack Obama on every other cover…..oh never mind. They did that. hehe

  6. Newsweek is behind the times. Once finances are back in order, for example, I’ll resubscribe to NR-Digital. Heck if I had the space for the dead tree version, I’d get the digital for free.

    The problem for newsweek is simple: There are so many sources of information out there, that they can’t control the veritcal and horizontal anymore.

    To quote Mr. Universe: You can’t stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.