Is the News Media getting out of the propaganda business? Probably not. The Other McCain brings us this story. WaPo Finally Dumps Dishonest Partisan Propaganda Merchant Glenn Kessler
Today is a glorious day of celebration, and if you want to know why I call Glenn Kessler a “dishonest partisan propaganda merchant,” this Breitbart thread on X is a good place to begin, although of course it could never contain every bullshit “fact check” in Kessler’s long and odious career of bullshit fact-checking. When future historians examine how the mainstream media lost all credibility, Glenn Kessler’s career at the Washington Post will certainly deserve its own chapter.
While I don't believe for a second that WaPo or other "news organizations" are going to drop Leftist propaganda, they do need to do something because they are losing money like crazy.
There is a nice history of "fact checking."
To condense it severely, however, “fact-checking” began after a series of events, beginning in the mid-1990s, which caused mainstream media to become concerned that they were losing control of the narrative-building function that is essential to their value as “Democratic operatives with bylines.”
Complete with a couple of milestones, and a quote from Kessler.
There is also a lot of info if you follow the links. Yes, it is a bit of "going down the rabbit hole," but some of it is funny, and explains why The Other McCain had this reaction.
I’m exhausted from all this dancing in glee.
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